| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 страници
...bribe, Uncursed amid the harpy tribe ; No orphan's cry to wound my ear ; My honour, and my conscience clear ; Thus may I calmly meet my end, Thus to the grave in peace descend. SIR JOHN HENRY MOORE, BART. BORN 1766. — DIED 1/80. THIS interesting and promising young... | |
| William Oxberry - 1824 - 380 страници
...bribe; Uncursed amid the guilty tribe; V No orphan's cry to wound my ear, My honour and my conscience clear ; — Thus may I calmly meet my end, Thus to the grave in peace descend. Sir W. Blackstone. AN HONEST COURTIER. WHEN Peter the Great of Russia began the canal of Ladoga,... | |
| 1825 - 320 страници
...bribe, Uncursed amid the harpy tribe; No orphan's cry to wound my ear, My honour and my conscience clear; Thus may I calmly meet my end, Thus to the grave in peace descend. CANDOUR OF AN IRISH DEPONENT. In a very excellent series of articles, entitled " Sketches... | |
| 1829 - 418 страници
...Writings of Sir William Blackstone. 121 No orphan's cry to wound my ear ; My honor and my conscience clear : Thus may I calmly meet my end, Thus to the grave in peace descend. Judging from the specimen of his poetical genius which these lines afford, we think it unquestionable... | |
| Henry Roscoe - 1830 - 554 страници
...bribe, Uncurscd amid the harpy tribe ; No orphan's cry to wound my ear. My honour and my conscience clear ; Thus may I calmly meet my end, Thus to the grave in peace descend !" The ease exhibited in these lines betrays a pen accustomed to versification ; and a volume... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 страници
...Гпсиглч! among the harpy tribe; No orphan's cry to wound my car; My honour and my conscience cl"ar. descend. Dît. JAMES GRAINGER. JAMES ORAINGRR (circa 1721-1 7G6) was, according to his own statement,... | |
| John Evans - 1831 - 322 страници
...still, the rural cell, Where sage Retirement loves to dwell. There let me taste the home-felt bliss Of INNOCENCE and inward Peace ; Untainted by the guilty bribe, Uncurs'd amid the harpy tribe, No orphan's cry to wound my ear, My HONOUR and my CONSCIENCE clear ; Thus may I calmly... | |
| John Evans - 1834 - 306 страници
...still, the rural cell, Where sage Retirement loves to dwell. There let me taste the home-felt bliss Of INNOCENCE and inward Peace; Untainted by the guilty bribe, Uncurs'd amid the harpy tribe, No orphan's cry to wound my ear, My HONOUR and my CONSCIENCE clear; Thus may I calmly... | |
| 1835 - 804 страници
...bribe, Uncursed amid the harpy tribe ; No orphan's cry to wound my ear ; My honor and my conscience clear ; Thus may I calmly meet my end, Thus to the grave in peace descend ! There we momenta of despondency, when Shakipeare himself no poet »nd Raphael no painter;... | |
| William Blackstone - 1836 - 694 страници
...bribe, Uncursed amid the harpy tribe; No orphan's cry to wound my ear, My honour and my conscience clear; Thus may I calmly meet my end, Thus to the grave in peace descend!" fication, as must convince every reader, that his passion for the Muses was too deeply rooted... | |
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