Poetic FragmentsJ. Philipson, 1838 - 232 стор. |
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Abbey Amid Aura Aura's azure skies Babylon battle beam beauty beneath bittern bliss bosom breast breath bright brow charms cheek clouds corse dark dear dearest death deep despair divine doth dreams Dunfermline e'er earth fair fame feel fierce flowers frae gallant gaze gentle glance gleam glide glow gone grace green greenwood tree grief Harold's hast hath heart Heaven hill hope hour light lonely Lord Delaval Love's Mary's Lake melody mountain murmuring ne'er neath never night Norman Norsemen o'er ocean Olden pale pass'd passions peace perish'd poison'd pride pure radiant rapture sacred Saxon scene scorn seem'd seraph smile soft solemn solitude song sorrow soul spirit spring star-beams starry stars stream sunny sweep sweet sweetly tear thee thine thou thoughts thrush train Twas Tynemouth Waltham Abbey warriors wassaile wave wild William dear winds Yarrow young youth Yule Log
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Сторінка 14 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Сторінка 54 - If ever," says Keith, in his Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion, " there was a city that seemed to bid defiance to any predictions of its fall, that city was Babylon. It was for a long time the most famous city in the Old World. Its walls, which were reckoned among the wonders of the world, appeared rather like the bulwarks of nature than the workmanship of man.
Сторінка 54 - Belus, six hundred feet in height; the artificial hanging gardens, which, piled in successive terraces, towered as high as the walls ; the embankments which restrained the Euphrates ; the hundred brazen gates; the palace built by Nebuchadnezzar, surrounded by three walls eight miles in compass...
Сторінка 39 - A blue sky bends o'er Yarrow vale, Save where that pearly whiteness Is round the rising sun diffused, A tender hazy brightness ; Mild dawn of promise!
Сторінка 54 - If ever there was a city that seemed to bid defiance to any predictions of its fall, that city was Babylon. It was, for a long time, the most famous city in the whole world.* Its walls, which were reckoned among the wonders of the world...
Сторінка 67 - THE eagle hearts of all the North Have left their stormy strand ; The warriors of the world are forth To choose another land ! Again, their long keels sheer the wave, Their broad sheets court the breeze ; Again, the reckless and the brave, Ride lords of weltering seas. Nor swifter from the well-bent bow Can feathered shaft be sped, Than o'er the ocean's flood of snow Their snoring galleys tread.
Сторінка 54 - Yet, while in the plenitude of its power, and, according to the most accurate chronologers, 160 years before the foot of an enemy had entered it, the voice of prophecy pronounced the doom of the mighty and unconquered Babylon. A succession of ages brought it gradually to the dust ; and the gradation of its fall is marked till it sunk at last into utter desolation.
Сторінка 201 - Survey this most * potent hero, whom lately 100,000 knights were eager to serve, -> and whom many nations dreaded, now lying for hours on the « naked ground, spoiled and abandoned by every one !
Сторінка 54 - ... 160 years before the foot of an enemy had entered it, the voice of prophecy pronounced the doom of the mighty and unconquered Babylon. A succession of ages brought it gradually to the dust; and the gradation of its fall is marked till it sunk at last into utter desolation. At a time when nothing but magnificence was around Babylon the great, fallen Babylon was delineated exactly as every traveller now describes its ruins.— And the prophecies concerning it may be viewed connectedly from the...
Сторінка 209 - Mary's Church striking the hour; he raised his eyes devoutly to Heaven, and extending his hands, cried out — ' To my lady, the holy Mary, I commend myself, that she by her prayers may reconcile me to her beloved Son.