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... virtue , their justice , their power ? why was I not born in those happy times ! " When the republic addressed to the throne of Avignon an embassy of the three orders , the spirit and eloquence of Rienzi recom- mended him to a place ...
... virtue , their justice , their power ? why was I not born in those happy times ! " When the republic addressed to the throne of Avignon an embassy of the three orders , the spirit and eloquence of Rienzi recom- mended him to a place ...
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... virtues were insensibly tinctured with the adjacent vices ; justice with cruelty , liberality with profusion , and the desire of fame with puerile and ostentatious vanity . He might have learned , that the ancient tribunes , so strong ...
... virtues were insensibly tinctured with the adjacent vices ; justice with cruelty , liberality with profusion , and the desire of fame with puerile and ostentatious vanity . He might have learned , that the ancient tribunes , so strong ...
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... virtues , without acquiring the fame of military prowess . A free and vigorous opposition was formed in the city ; and when the tribune proposed in the public council to impose a new tax , and to regulate the government of Perugia ...
... virtues , without acquiring the fame of military prowess . A free and vigorous opposition was formed in the city ; and when the tribune proposed in the public council to impose a new tax , and to regulate the government of Perugia ...
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... virtue , des- tined to become great and honourable in these latter ages . Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep , and shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an ...
... virtue , des- tined to become great and honourable in these latter ages . Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep , and shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an ...
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... virtue , as oft as I have an opportunity so to do , always looking upon myself as one commissioned by him , and acting under him . For this reason , I must still endeavour to exercise my authority as if the most high God was in my place ...
... virtue , as oft as I have an opportunity so to do , always looking upon myself as one commissioned by him , and acting under him . For this reason , I must still endeavour to exercise my authority as if the most high God was in my place ...
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Page 100 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 191 - Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge Of the dying year...
Page 401 - This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 90 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 192 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable!
Page 90 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white.
Page 96 - They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream,! To have seen those dead men rise. The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze...
Page 18 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 100 - Is this the hill? is this the kirk? Is this mine own countree ? We drifted o'er the harbour-bar, And I with sobs did pray — O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
Page 91 - With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could nor laugh nor wail; Through utter drought all dumb we stood ! I bit my arm, I sucked .the blood, And cried, A sail! a sail! With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call : Gramercy! they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in, As they were drinking all. See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more! Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel!