A Picture of LifeE. Walker's Sons, 1880 - 269 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 127 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence ; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart ; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange ; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Pàgina 127 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ! Man marks the earth with ruin, his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Pàgina 11 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
Pàgina 228 - THE wretch, condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies ; And every pang that rends the heart, Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
Pàgina 13 - AURORA now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn ; When Jove convened the senate of the skies, Where high Olympus' cloudy tops arise. The sire of gods his awful silence broke ; The heavens attentive trembled as he spoke. ' Celestial states, immortal gods ! give ear, Hear our decree, and...
Pàgina 94 - I have been young and now I am old ; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging for bread.
Pàgina 97 - SOFTLY ! she is lying With her lips apart : Softly ! she is dying Of a broken heart.
Pàgina 172 - The hypothesis of evolution supposes that in all this vast progression there would be no breach of continuity, no point at which we could say
Pàgina 172 - The third hypothesis, or the hypothesis of evolution, supposes that at any given period in the past we should meet with a state of things more or less similar to the present, but less similar in proportion as we go back in time ; that the physical form of the earth could be traced back in this way to a condition in which its parts were separated, as little more than a nebulous cloud making part of a whole in which we...
Pàgina 255 - VICTOMA, queen of Great Britain and Ireland, is the only daughter of Edward, duke of Kent, fourth son of George III., and of the princess Victoria Mary Louisa of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, fourth and youngest daughter of Francis, duke of Saxe-C'oburg-Saalfeld, and widow of Emich Charles, prince of Leiningen.