The Patrician, Volume 5John Burke, Bernard Burke E. Churton, 1848 - Genealogy |
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... received them , are perhaps the most sublime pictures which the human imagination ever produced . Dr. Channing , in his able Essay on the Poetical Genius of Milton , thus treats the author's character of Satan : - Hell and Hell's King ...
... received them , are perhaps the most sublime pictures which the human imagination ever produced . Dr. Channing , in his able Essay on the Poetical Genius of Milton , thus treats the author's character of Satan : - Hell and Hell's King ...
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... received orders from my Lord Advocate for that purpose . At which I returned to my house , thinking it very strange thus to proceed without having had the corpse viewed by some person , as I well knew was customary in Eng- land in such ...
... received orders from my Lord Advocate for that purpose . At which I returned to my house , thinking it very strange thus to proceed without having had the corpse viewed by some person , as I well knew was customary in Eng- land in such ...
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... received into communion , therefore , they furiously assailed the city , and committed such excesses that the anathema of excommunication , which had been in the first instance withdrawn , was speedily reimposed . The church , however ...
... received into communion , therefore , they furiously assailed the city , and committed such excesses that the anathema of excommunication , which had been in the first instance withdrawn , was speedily reimposed . The church , however ...
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... received them with equal honour ; the King finally , as was supposed , paying them the last compliment of all , by ordering their interment in the royal vault of St. Denis , adjoining a tomb designed for himself , amid the sovereigns of ...
... received them with equal honour ; the King finally , as was supposed , paying them the last compliment of all , by ordering their interment in the royal vault of St. Denis , adjoining a tomb designed for himself , amid the sovereigns of ...
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... received the name of Captain or Preserver of Genoese Liberty , in consequence of having quelled a formidable insurrection against it in the year 1270 . After that period , however , until the sixteenth century , when , in 1571 ...
... received the name of Captain or Preserver of Genoese Liberty , in consequence of having quelled a formidable insurrection against it in the year 1270 . After that period , however , until the sixteenth century , when , in 1571 ...
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Abbey Abd-el-Kader Admiral afterwards aged ancient Anne appeared April arms army Baronet Bart beautiful born brother called Captain Castle celebrated character Charles church Colonel command court daughter death decease died Duke Duke of Orleans Dyer Earl Earl of Kingston Edward Elizabeth England English Esquire estates father Fitzgerald France French gentleman George give hand heart heir Henri de Blois Henry honour Ireland Irish John Dyer King Lady land late lived Lord Lord Hervey Lord Kingsborough Lordship March marriage married Mary Masaniello MEPHISTOPHELES mind Miss never night noble occasion person Philip poet possession present Prince prisoner Queen received reign relict Richard Robert Royal scene shew Sir James Sir John sister sovereign spirit Thomas thought tion took Vale Royal wife William Wilnecote young youngest
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Page 6 - tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 523 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 4 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 3 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light...
Page 3 - Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Page 2 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 4 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 248 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 147 - Kisses and welcomings upon the air, Which they make breezy with affectionate gestures. From all the towers rings out the merry peal, The joyous vespers of a bloody day. 0 happy man, O fortunate ! for whom The well-known door, the faithful arms are open, The faithful tender arms with mute embracing.
Page 70 - Hilda pray'd ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls...