Recollections, Том 2Macmillan, 1917 |
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Сторінка 341 - And yet Time hath his revolutions ; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things— -finis rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene, and why not of De Vere ? For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer ? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. And yet let the name and dignity of De Vere stand so long as it pleaseth God!
Сторінка 362 - He comes with Western winds, with evening's wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars. Winds take a pensive tone, and stars a tender fire, And visions rise, and change, that kill me with desire.
Сторінка 370 - Providence internal tranquillity shall be restored it is our earnest desire to stimulate the peaceful industry of India, to promote works of public utility and improvement, and to administer the government for the benefit of all our subjects resident therein. In their prosperity will be our strength, in their contentment our security, and in their gratitude our best reward. And may the God of all power grant to us and to those in authority under us strength to carry out these our wishes for the good...
Сторінка 114 - I am of opinion that there is not a greater folly than to contract too great and intimate a friendship, which must always leave the survivor miserable.
Сторінка 172 - Not one whit more than you do I think it desirable or possible, or even conceivable, to adapt English political institutions to the nations who inhabit India.
Сторінка 366 - Bacon who penned that deep appeal from thought to feeling, " the nobler a soul is, the more objects of compassion it hath." This of the great Elizabethan was one prevailing note in our Victorian age.
Сторінка 365 - His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Сторінка 221 - We must not forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, at first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing bigger and bigger, may at last threaten to overwhelm us with ruin.
Сторінка 114 - He used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; it looked like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion in it.
Сторінка 115 - ... how few friends we hear of, how many diseases, and how much poverty there is in the world, you will fall down upon your knees, and instead of repining at one affliction, will admire so many blessings as you have received at the hand of God.