The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook, Том 2

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Страница 118 - Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree ? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar with me ? • From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly, To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss ? No, perish the hearts, and the laws that try Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this ! SUBLIME WAS THE WARNING.
Страница 196 - TWAS when the world was in its prime, When the fresh stars had just begun Their race of glory, and young Time Told his first birth-days by the sun ; When, in the light of Nature's dawn Rejoicing, men and angels met On the high hill and sunny lawn, — Ere Sorrow came, or Sin had drawn 'Twixt man and Heaven her curtain yet ! When earth lay nearer to the skies Than in these days of crime and woe, And mortals saw, without surprise, In the mid-air, angelic eyes Gazing upon this world below.
Страница 148 - Twas still some solace in the dearth Of the pure elements of earth, To hearken to each other's speech, And each turn comforter to each.
Страница 13 - What it cannot instruct you to cure. Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an higher degree ; It is not for me to explain How fair and how fickle they be. Alas ! from the day that we met What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose.
Страница 13 - I have nothing to do but to weep. Yet do not my folly reprove ; She was fair — and my passion begun : She smiled — and I could not but love : She is faithless — and I am undone.
Страница 318 - O the gallant Fisher's life, It is the best of any; 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis beloved of many : Other joys Are but toys : Only this Lawful is; For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure.
Страница 148 - And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain...
Страница 16 - LESBIA hath a beaming eye, But no one knows for whom it beameth ; Right and left its arrows fly, But what they aim at no one dreameth.
Страница 340 - If the utmost strictness were required in every case, justice might often have to stand still ; and I am not disposed to say that there may not be cases in which the judge may, without impropriety, take upon himself to construe the words of a foreign law, and determine their application to the case in question, especially if there should be a variance or want of clearness in the testimony.
Страница 317 - ... leg above the upper joint to the armed wire ; and, in so doing, use him as though you loved him...

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