The National Quarterly Review, Том 14Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman Pudney & Russell, 1867 |
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Страница 94 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Страница 256 - I see I cannot do what I came for, I think this no unfit occasion to repeat what I have said formerly, that whatsoever I have done in favour and to the good of my subjects, I do mean to maintain it. I will trouble you no more but tell you, I do expect, as soon as they come to the house, you will send them to me ; otherwise I must take my own course to find them.
Страница 154 - The feet and hands whereat our souls were priced. Alas, Lord, surely thou art great and fair. But lo her wonderfully woven hair! And thou didst heal us with thy piteous kiss; But see now, Lord; her mouth is lovelier.
Страница 70 - About the year 1648, 1649, some of our company being removed to Oxford (first Dr. Wilkins, then I, and soon after Dr. Goddard), our company divided. Those in London continued to meet there as before (and we with them when we had occasion to be there), and those of us at Oxford ; with Dr. Ward (since Bishop of Salisbury), Dr.
Страница 92 - Venetian blinds and open verandas, the apartments through which we passed were exceedingly close. A dinner in the largest of them threatened much inconvenience from the heat. But on this score there was no ground for apprehension. The dining-room stood apart from the house, in the midst of orange trees. It was an elegant oblong pavilion, of Grecian marble, refreshed by fountains that " shot in air through scintillating streams ;" and the table, covered with the beautiful and picturesque dessert,...
Страница 258 - I will raise men who will have the fear of God before their eyes, and who will bring some conscience to what they do ; and I promise you they shall not be beaten...