Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and PoetryLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1840 - 526 pages |
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... given them birth , or that had inspired them ; and almost always a scrutinizing glance might discover a secret and profound analogy between the country and the individual who had graced it ; between the scene and the actor ; between ...
... given them birth , or that had inspired them ; and almost always a scrutinizing glance might discover a secret and profound analogy between the country and the individual who had graced it ; between the scene and the actor ; between ...
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... given one such name to its country : but it is the happiness of the house of Sidney to number more than one such in its line , and to have enriched our literature with a brilliant constellation of names , both male and female , that ...
... given one such name to its country : but it is the happiness of the house of Sidney to number more than one such in its line , and to have enriched our literature with a brilliant constellation of names , both male and female , that ...
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... given me : if it be dimme or uncertaine I must beare the penalty of my errors . I hope to do it with patience , and that noe burthen should be very grievous to me except sinne and shame ! God keepe me from these evils , and in all ...
... given me : if it be dimme or uncertaine I must beare the penalty of my errors . I hope to do it with patience , and that noe burthen should be very grievous to me except sinne and shame ! God keepe me from these evils , and in all ...
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... given an everlasting attraction ; especially Sir Philip Sidney's Oak , Saccharissa's Walk , and Gamage's Bower . Southey and Waller have both celebrated the Sidney oak . Southey says , - That stately oak , Itself hath mouldered now ...
... given an everlasting attraction ; especially Sir Philip Sidney's Oak , Saccharissa's Walk , and Gamage's Bower . Southey and Waller have both celebrated the Sidney oak . Southey says , - That stately oak , Itself hath mouldered now ...
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... given together , and the variation of their characters is obvious in their persons . The Countess of Leicester is a woman of that bold beauty which answers to what we know of her ; a woman who seemed born to command and to be admired ...
... given together , and the variation of their characters is obvious in their persons . The Countess of Leicester is a woman of that bold beauty which answers to what we know of her ; a woman who seemed born to command and to be admired ...
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Page 258 - Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Page 261 - Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey — that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Page 89 - O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 193 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell.
Page 256 - I have ventured. Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders. This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me.
Page 193 - Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King.