Autobiographical Recollections of Sir John Bowring, Volume 1 |
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Page 343 - Intense, long, certain, speedy, fruitful, pure — Such marks in pleasures and in pains endure. Such pleasures seek, if private be thy end: If it be public, wide let them extend. Such pains avoid, whichever be thy view: If pains must come, let them extend to few.
Page 364 - Blandum et auritas fidibus canoris Ducere quercus ? Quid prius dicam solitis parentis Laudibus, qui res hominum ac deorum, Qui mare ac terras variisque mundum Temperat horis ? Unde nil majus generatur ipso, Nec viget quidquam simile aut secundum : Proximos illi tamen occupavit Pallas honores.
Page 357 - I love the deep, deep pause that reigns, At highest noon o'er hills and plains, And own that Summer's gentle rule Is soothing, soft, and beautiful. But Winter, in its angriest form, Has charms, — " there's grandeur in the Storm...
Page 92 - ... following year. Returning to China in January, 1859, he felt constrained in the early summer, on account of overwork and ill-health, to resign his office, and on the voyage to Europe was shipwrecked in the Red Sea, but finally reached England in safety. Writing afterwards of his many journeys, he says : " In my travels, I have never been very ambitious of the society of my countrymen, but have always sought that of the natives, and there are few men, I believe, who can bear a stronger or a wider...
Page 362 - TAKE your Night-cap again, my good Lord, I desire, For I wish not to keep it a minute: "What belongs to a Nelson, where'er there's ajire, Is sure to be instantly in it.
Page 217 - the whole character and oratorical power of the House, save what was possessed by ministerialist office-holders and office-seekers, ranged themselves under Cobden's leadership. He carried his motion by a majority of sixteen."* Sir John Bowring defends himself by saying : — It is not fair or just to suppose that a course of action which may be practicable or prudent at home will always succeed abroad. You can no more apply exactly the same discipline or the same character of reward and punishment...
Page 383 - enemigas , Referir los blasones, Hazañas y fatigas , Y de candor histórico Dignos ejemplos dar. Europa , que anhelaba De tu saber el fruto , Y ofrecerle esperaba En aplausos tributo , La nueva de tu pérdida Debe primero oir. La parca inexorable Te arrebató á la tumba. En eco lamentable La bóveda retumba , Y allá en su centro lóbrego Sonó ronco gemir. ¡ Ay ! perdona , ofendido Espíritu, perdona.