Autobiography, with His Literary, Political, and Social Reminiscences and Correspondence During the Last Fifty Years, Volume 3A. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1853 |
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Page 13 - ALL my past life is mine no more; The flying hours are gone, Like transitory dreams given o'er, Whose images are kept in store By memory alone. The time that is to come is not; How can it then be mine? The present moment's all my lot; And that, as fast as it is got, Phillis, is only thine.
Page 36 - But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold; Where won by bribes, by flatteries implor'd, The groom retails the favours of his lord. But hark! th...
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Page 28 - Price 2s. 6d. 1. ALFRED CAMPBELL; or, Travels of a Young Pilgrim. 2. DECISION; a Tale. 3. ENERGY. 4. FAREWELL TALES. 5. FORTITUDE. 6. HUMILITY. 7. INTEGRITY.
Page 18 - FORESHADOWS ; or, LECTURES on our LORD'S MIRACLES and PARABLES, as Earnests of the Age to come. By Rev. JOHN CUMMING, DD Fifth Thousand.
Page 79 - Nobler wines why do we pour ? Beauteous flowers why do we spread, Upon the monuments of the dead? Nothing they but dust can show, Or bones that hasten to be so. Crown me with roses whilst I live, Now your wines and ointments give; After death I nothing crave, Let me alive my pleasures have, All are Stoics in the grave.
Page 362 - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Page 224 - OH, when I was a tiny boy My days and nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind ! — No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the tear-drop from my eye, To cast a look behind ! A hoop was an eternal round Of pleasure. In those days I found A top a joyous thing ; — But now those past delights I drop, My head, alas ! is all my top, And careful thoughts the string...
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