The Works of the Right Honourable John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose...: Original Works and minor TranslationsB.M.Pickering, 1874 |
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Page 325 - And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem ; and Jesus went before them : and they were amazed ; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him...
Page 57 - Weary knife-grinder! little think the proud ones Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeRoad, what hard work 'tis crying all day, "Knives and Scissors to grind O!
Page 124 - This faded form ! this pallid hue ! ; This blood my veins is clotting in, My years are many — They were few When first I enter'd at the U — — NIVERSITY of Gottingen — — NIVERSITY of Gottingen.
Page 54 - PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HID THEM IN THE COAL-HOLE. For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans ; such as erst chastised Our Milton, when at college. For this act Did Brownrigg swing. Harsh laws ! But time shall come, When France shall reign, and laws be all repeal'd ! CANNING AND FRERE.
Page 103 - So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying Three INSIDES. One in each corner sits, and lolls at ease, With folded arms, propt back, and outstretched knees, While the...
Page 147 - France at our doors, he sees no danger nigh, But heaves for Turkey's woes the impartial sigh ; A steady Patriot of the World alone, The friend of every country — but his own.
Page 108 - Ye Sylphs of DEATH ! on demon pinions flit Where the tall Guillotine is raised for PITT : To the poised plank tie fast the monster's back,* Close the nice slider, ope the expectant sack ; Then twitch, with fairy hands, the frolic pin — Down falls the...
Page 146 - ... French Philanthropy ; — whose boundless mind Glows with the general love of all mankind ; — Philanthropy, — beneath whose baneful sway Each patriot passion sinks, and dies away. Taught in her school to imbibe thy mawkish strain, CONDORCET...
Page 419 - For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest...