Memorials, Volume 1, Issue 1

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Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1896 - Great Britain

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Page 385 - Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse: and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 471 - Dickens: The Letters of Charles Dickens edited by his Sister-inlaw and his eldest Daughter 4 v.
Page 213 - But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great u Diana of the Ephesians.
Page 353 - ... English blood was shed All over fertile England, for the White Rose or the Red ; But still in Wykeham's Chapel the notes of praise were heard, And still in Wykeham's College they taught the sacred Word ; And in the grey of morning, on every saint's-day still, That black-gowned troop of brothers was winding up the hill : There in the hollow trench, which the Danish pirate made, Or through the broad encampment, the peaceful scholars played.
Page 355 - Nations, and thrones, and reverend laws, have melted like a dream ; Yet Wykeham's works are green and fresh beside the crystal stream. Four hundred years and fifty their rolling course have sped Since the first serge-clad scholar to Wykeham's feet was led ; And still his seventy faithful boys, in these presumptuous days, Learn the old...
Page 355 - And at th' appointed seasons, when Wykeham's bounties claim The full heart's solemn tribute from those who love his name, Still shall his white-robed children, as age on age rolls by, At Oxford and at Winchester, give thanks to God most High : And amid kings and martyrs shedding down glorious light, While the deep-echoing organ swells to the vaulted height, With grateful thoughts o'erflowing at the mercies they behold, They shall praise their sainted fathers, the famous men of old. CXXVII TRUST IN...
Page 471 - CICERO. —THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO: being a New Translation of the Letters included in Mr. Watson's Selection. With Historical and Critical Notes, by Rev. GE JEANS, MA, Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, Assistant-Master in Haileybury College, 8vo.
Page iii - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
Page 129 - That the Ministry has unwisely introduced, and most unscrupulously forwarded, a measure which threatens not only to change our form of Government, but ultimately to break up the very foundations of social order, as well as materially to forward the views of those who are pursuing this project throughout the civilised world.
Page 329 - Holinesses will accept this communication as a testimony of our respect and affection, and of our hearty desire to renew that amicable intercourse with the ancient Churches of the East, which has been suspended for ages, and which, if restored, may have the effect, with the blessing of God, of putting an end to divisions which have brought the most grievous calamities on the Church of Christ.

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