Solitude and Society: With Other PoemsWiley & Putnam, 1846 - 110 страници |
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angel art thou beams beauty beneath blaze bless blest blissful blood bloom BOLLES bower breath breeze bright brow celestial charm cheer confest crimes dark deep dews divine earth eternal ethereal evermore fair flies flowers flows gladsome glorious glory grace happiness Hast thou Heaven heavenly holy hour HYMN immortal Jehovah joyous let thine eye let thy light lives Lord lyre melody mercy minstrelsy monarch mountain nature's night nobler NOTE numbers o'er Orpheus Peace power of Love praise Promethean pure rapture rays realms reigns rill rise robes round sacred seraph shade shed shine sight sing skies Slavery smile SOLITUDE AND SOCIETY song soul sparkling sphere spirit spread spring stars strains streams sublime sweet swell thee thence throne thy breast thy heart thy mind tongue truth turn virtue voice wait wakeful wander waves wild wings Wisdom wise zephyrs
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Страница 84 - how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O goldheaper, And your purple shows your path ! But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper Than the strong man in his wrath.
Страница 86 - And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
Страница 84 - If any man, said they, purchase letters of indulgence, his soul may rest secure with respect to its salvation. The souls confined in purgatory, for whose redemption indulgences are purchased, as soon as the money tinkles in the chest, instantly escape from that place of torment, and ascend into heaven. That the efficacy of indulgences was so great, that the most heinous sins, even if one should violate, which was impossible, the mother of God, would be remitted and expiated by them, and the person...
Страница 86 - Burns, who was employed as a weaver in the factory near Lancaster, was going home, he was met by one Wilson, with whom he had some previous misunderstanding, when Wilson drew a knife and gave him divers stabs in sundry places, which are considered mortal. Wilson was apprehended and committed to jail, and had the same irons put on him which had scarcely been laid off long enough by Lechler to get cold.
Страница 84 - The terms in which Tetzal and his associates described the benefit of indulgences, and the necessity of purchasing them, are so extravagant, that they appear to be almost incredible. If any man (said they) purchase letters of indulgence, his soul may rest secure with respect to its salvation. The souls confined in purgatory, for whose redemption indulgences are purchased, as soon as the money tinkles in the chest, instantly escape from thatplace of torment and ascend into heaven.
Страница 83 - Mercury, upon which he played with such a masterly hand, that even the most rapid rivers ceased to flow, the savage beasts of the forest forgot their wildness, and the mountains moved to listen to his song.
Страница 86 - ... which they are conducted, do not operate on the vicious part of the community more as incitements to, than examples deterring from, crime. What has taken place in Lancaster would lead one to believe, that the spectacle of a public execution produces less reformation than criminal propensity. While an old offence was atoned for, more than a dozen new ones were committed, and some of a capital grade.
Страница 86 - ... say whether they can believe the punishment of death an efficient one for murder. The most serious and intense reflection has brought my mind to the conclusion, not only that it fails in any repressive effect, but that it promotes the crime.
Страница 87 - was, I think, the finest I ever saw in Ireland. Many nebulte were observed by Lord Rosse, Dr. Robinson, and myself. Most of them were for the first time since their creation seen by us in groups or clusters of stars, while some, at least to my eyes, showed no such grouping.
Страница 109 - Thou laughest at the lapse of time. The same sweet sounds are in my ear My early childhood loved to hear...