 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1859 - 826 pages
...coalition, with the hoji. Member for Birmingham ensconced as " bodkin" between them. " Could sncli things be, And overcome us, like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ?" What wns the bond of union between this „choice triumvirate ? Was it peace Î That was not the... | |
 | Ireland - 1851 - 424 pages
...the last stanza, Mr. Moir—himself a poet—expressly speaks with contempt. Well may we exclaim, '' Can such things be, And overcome us, like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder! " As we find ourselves "racy of the soil," we shall see what Mr. Moir has to say on a subject which... | |
 | - Frame - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1860 - 110 pages
...same most undesirable manner by the more scientific hands of the common hangman. In an age like this "can such things be, and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder." The company should ascertain, before becoming surety for any life, that brain and body are healthy,... | |
 | George Rose - Great Britain - 1860 - 554 pages
...the tidings of Mr. Pitt's resignation were received by his followers, who seemed to say, " Can these things be, and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder?" Either not knowing, or not appreciating at their real value, the motives by which he was actuated,... | |
 | Medicine - 1850 - 412 pages
...a stupendous ass was brought forward to testify against an educated and scientific practitioner ! ' Can such things be, and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder !' "In the other instance, one of the same genus ' Doctor,' in a case where one of the oldest and most... | |
 | Garth Rivers - 1861 - 302 pages
...Forrester ! whom Miss Stanford judged to have eyery good quality inherent. CHAPTER XXIII. A LIGHT. " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ? " " How it pours ! surely, Dr. Bryan, you can't think of walking back to Rhiw to-night ? " Mr. Gwynne... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - Annals of the Four Masters - 1861 - 436 pages
...the last stanza, Mr. Moir—himself a poet—expressly speaks with contempt. Well may we exclaim, '' Can such things be, And overcome us, like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ! " As we find ourselves "racy of the soil," we shall see what Mr. Moir has to say on a subject which... | |
 | Edmund Baker - 1862 - 264 pages
...by him for Africa, after it had fallen into his do" minion, testifies that he had beheld the same." Can such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder ? CHAPTEE VI. THE DIALOGUE OP THE D1PABTED. Betwixt us and you there is a great gulf fixed. — LUKE... | |
 | Peter Livingston - Scottish poetry - 1862 - 150 pages
...and an ornament to womankind, she is in poverty; the Christian philosopher, Dr Dick, is overlooked. Can such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder. Here is a man over whose eloquent pages millions in this country, in Europe, and America, have hung... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...black vesper's pageants. SHARSPERE.— Anthony and Cleopatra, Act IV. Scene 12. (Anthony to Eros.) Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ? SHARSPERE. — Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4. (Macbeth, after he had seen the Ghost of Banquo.) CO A... | |
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