Miscellaneous Prose Works, 21권Black, 1853 |
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334 페이지 - Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: " for their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
68 페이지 - ... crash And merciless ravage: and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being: and unless I now Confound my present feelings with the past...
82 페이지 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
151 페이지 - That will never be. Who can impress" the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?
76 페이지 - ... than encounter the expense and trouble of attempting the modes of amelioration which require immediate expense — and, what is, perhaps, more grudged by the first-born of Egypt — a little future attention. To such we can only say, that improvement by plantation is at once the easiest, the cheapest, and the least precarious mode of increasing the immediate value, as well as the future income, of their estates, and that therefore it is we exhort them to take to heart the exhortation of the dying...
374 페이지 - The degree of national diversity between different countries, is but an instance of that general variety which Nature seems to have adopted as a principle through all her works, as anxious, apparently, to avoid, as modern statesmen to enforce, anything like an approach to absolute 'uniformity.
194 페이지 - to those who have no notion of any cage but one for a parrot, or a squirrel, hung out at a window, he despairs of rendering this mandate intelligible.
68 페이지 - Then up I rose And dragged to earth both branch and bough, with crash and merciless ravage . . . And the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
177 페이지 - Smithfield. After being hanged, but not to death, he was cut down yet breathing, his bowels taken out, and burnt before his face. His head was then struck off, and his body divided into four quarters. His head was placed on a pole on London Bridge, his right arm above the bridge at Newcastle, his left arm was sent to Berwick, his right foot and limb to Perth, and his left quarter to Aberdeen.
171 페이지 - Hebridean islands, in prosecution of which Alexander II. had lost his life at Kerrera, still subsisted between the son of Alexander and Haco of Norway, a king of redoubted power and skill in arms ; and no sooner was the heir of Scotland arisen to the years of manhood than the contest was renewed. In the midst of summer 1264, Haco embarked at the head of a fleet and army, considered as the most formidable which ever left Norway to seek spoil and glory on distant shores. Mr. Tytler candidly compares...