Life and Letters of Edmund J. ArmstrongLongmans, Green, 1877 - 565 pages |
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... whole constitution , and , when it passes , leaving it permanently altered . One of his elder schoolfellows , and his constant associate , young G. D. M ***** , now a distinguished cavalry officer , was soon to take part in the grim ...
... whole constitution , and , when it passes , leaving it permanently altered . One of his elder schoolfellows , and his constant associate , young G. D. M ***** , now a distinguished cavalry officer , was soon to take part in the grim ...
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... period ; to it he attributed , and rightly , the largest share in the formation of his character and his tastes , and his whole after - life was coloured and made beautiful by the suggestions and experiences 24 LIFE AND LETTERS OF.
... period ; to it he attributed , and rightly , the largest share in the formation of his character and his tastes , and his whole after - life was coloured and made beautiful by the suggestions and experiences 24 LIFE AND LETTERS OF.
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... whole dis- tasteful to him , and to produce for a time a certain air of indifference which could hardly have failed to make itself felt . Only when some bit of athletic daring was broached among them was he tempted from his reserve ...
... whole dis- tasteful to him , and to produce for a time a certain air of indifference which could hardly have failed to make itself felt . Only when some bit of athletic daring was broached among them was he tempted from his reserve ...
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... whole , much sharper , or the feelings more genuine , more generous , or more pure in ordinary men of forty or fifty than in such boys in their teens . As the members of this small band were descend- ing down the slope to atheism , they ...
... whole , much sharper , or the feelings more genuine , more generous , or more pure in ordinary men of forty or fifty than in such boys in their teens . As the members of this small band were descend- ing down the slope to atheism , they ...
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... whole nature , in which hard study , constant anxiety , and the blight of his first fair boyish love - dream , all combined to excite , to perplex , to embitter him - was , no doubt , the som- brest and most critical of his life . And ...
... whole nature , in which hard study , constant anxiety , and the blight of his first fair boyish love - dream , all combined to excite , to perplex , to embitter him - was , no doubt , the som- brest and most critical of his life . And ...
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Page 92 - DIP down upon the northern shore, O sweet new-year delaying long; Thou doest expectant nature wrong; Delaying long, delay no more. What stays thee from the clouded noons, Thy sweetness from its proper place? Can trouble live with April days, Or sadness in the summer moons? Bring orchis, bring the foxglove spire, The little speedwell's darling blue, Deep tulips dash'd with fiery dew, Laburnums, dropping-wells of fire.
Page 398 - Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
Page 397 - When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. 8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
Page 279 - 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. The harbour-bay was clear as glass, So smoothly it was strewn! And on the bay the moonlight lay, And the shadow of the Moon. The...
Page 397 - And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, 'Wilt thou be made whole?
Page 213 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
Page 225 - Sanguis martyrum semen Christianorum ! We may admit that the reverence paid to them in former. days' was unreasonable and excessive ; that credulity and ignorance have in many instances falsified the actions imputed to them ; that enthusiasm has magnified their numbers beyond all belief; that when the communion with martyrs was associated with the presence of their material remains, the passion for relics led to a thousand abuses, and the belief in their intercession to a thousand superstitions....
Page 210 - And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
Page 71 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright Neither by day nor yet by night • They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Page 172 - He was very much out of spirits when he left him ; and that was the last interview they ever had. Shelley appeared to Leigh Hunt to be far less hopeful than in former days, though otherwise unchanged. The two spent a delightful afternoon together during the brief stay of Shelley at Pisa, visiting the objects of note, and more especially the cathedral. Here the noble music of the organ deeply affected Shelley, who warmly * See Trelawny's Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron, p.