The Glory and Shame of England, Volume 1Bartram & Lester, 1866 - England |
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... increase nor diminish her respon- sibilities , but because upon the principles of international law , which she has no right to modify by any statute , she neg- lected , after due notice from our Government , to arrest the departure of ...
... increase nor diminish her respon- sibilities , but because upon the principles of international law , which she has no right to modify by any statute , she neg- lected , after due notice from our Government , to arrest the departure of ...
Page 28
... increasing their desolation and misery by the prolongation of our civil contest . It had , moreover , the effect , to a great extent , to drive the American flag from the sea , and to transfer much of our shipping and our commerce to ...
... increasing their desolation and misery by the prolongation of our civil contest . It had , moreover , the effect , to a great extent , to drive the American flag from the sea , and to transfer much of our shipping and our commerce to ...
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... increased in power , wealth , arts and learn- ing ; but the progress has been confined to the higher orders . The mass have been below the current of advance- ment - busy in toiling for bread . What has England's pros- perity been to ...
... increased in power , wealth , arts and learn- ing ; but the progress has been confined to the higher orders . The mass have been below the current of advance- ment - busy in toiling for bread . What has England's pros- perity been to ...
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... increase it . Not abroad , but at home , are the elements of trouble . Not hostile armies , but her own subjects have become her greatest dread . She has reach- ed that crisis from which most governments date their decline -her foes ...
... increase it . Not abroad , but at home , are the elements of trouble . Not hostile armies , but her own subjects have become her greatest dread . She has reach- ed that crisis from which most governments date their decline -her foes ...
Page 90
... increasing darkness had spread through all the cloisters , chapels , and passages a more solemn and mysterious gloom , I could not but ask , what is night , deep , dark night - without moon , star or taper - around these silent poets ...
... increasing darkness had spread through all the cloisters , chapels , and passages a more solemn and mysterious gloom , I could not but ask , what is night , deep , dark night - without moon , star or taper - around these silent poets ...
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Page 71 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 76 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Page 74 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 79 - Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your excellency, and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour.
Page 75 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
Page 94 - But though glory be gone, and though hope fade away, Thy name, loved Erin ! shall live in his songs, Not even in the hour when his heart is most gay Will he lose the remembrance of thee and thy wrongs ! The stranger shall hear thy lament on his plains ; The sigh of thy harp shall be sent o'er the deep, Till thy masters themselves, as they rivet thy chains, Shall pause at the song of their captive and weep ! WHILE GAZING ON THE MOON'S LIGHT.
Page 74 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 167 - What, then, was the duty of an English Minister ? To effect by his policy all those changes which a revolution would do by force. That was the Irish question in its integrity.
Page 279 - Islands — the frenzy of believing, or making believe, that the adults of the nineteenth century can be led like children, or driven like barbarians ! This it is that has conjured up the strange sights at which we now stand aghast ! And shall we persist in the fatal error of...
Page 61 - ... usage of me, at his general judgment-seat, where both you and myself must shortly appear, and in whose judgment I doubt not, whatsoever the world' may think of me, mine innocence shall be openly known and sufficiently cleared.