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Page 315 - whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest : Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes." " Where the clouds do often rest" —there is a dash of poetry : the clouds, you see, are almost sentient
Page 73 - Stops with the shore,—upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain Л shadow of man's ravage, save his own. When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan. Without a grave, unknell'd,
Page 316 - as they keep, Entice the dewy-feather'd sleep ; And let some strange mysterious dream Wave at his wings in aery stream Of lively portraiture display'd, Softly on my eyelids laid. And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirits to mortals good, Or the unseen genius of the wood.
Page 507 - the miseries we have tasted, Crossing in your barks the main ; By our sufferings since ye brought us To the man-degrading mart; All sustained by patience taught us Only by a broken heart : " Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard and stronger
Page 73 - shadow of man's ravage, save his own. When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan. Without a grave, unknell'd,
Page 99 - while it is destitute of any species of aristocracy, is to attempt to navigate on a single element. The French Revolution has undertaken the solution of a problem as insoluble as that of directing the course of balloons."* " A Monarchy," says Lord Bacon, " where there is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and
Page 507 - of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours." What is now going on in Africa, along her coasts or in the interior, nobody well knows; but we all know, or may know, what is the state of the negroesin
Page 315 - heard the divine music of some Handel, and his mind's eye was gifted. But what does he make out of our poor degenerate earth, inhabited by our dwindled, working race ? See, here is a picture — " Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray : Mountains
Page 99 - tyranny ; for nobility attempers sovereignty.and draws' the eyes of the people somewhat aside from the line royal." f In the profound observations of these great men is to be found the key to the present state of France, and the explanation of the fact that, since the revolt of the Barricades, its inhabitants
Page 325 - fasts, silent, patient, resigned, without sedition or disturbance, almost without complaint, perished by a hundred a-day in the streets of Madras ; every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the streets, or on the glacis of Tanjore, and expired of famine in the granary of India.