Miscellanies, Volumen1J.W. Parker and Son, 1860 |
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... clear , accurate , convincing , com- plete . There is no more to be said about the matter , save that facts are stubborn things . The article on Raleigh is very valuable ; first , because Mr. Napier has had access to many documents ...
... clear , accurate , convincing , com- plete . There is no more to be said about the matter , save that facts are stubborn things . The article on Raleigh is very valuable ; first , because Mr. Napier has had access to many documents ...
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... clear him from a few more charges , I write these pages , premising that I do not profess to have access to any new and recondite documents . I merely take the broad facts of the story from documents open to all , and comment on them as ...
... clear him from a few more charges , I write these pages , premising that I do not profess to have access to any new and recondite documents . I merely take the broad facts of the story from documents open to all , and comment on them as ...
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... clear : there was no mistake about its being the absolutely right , wise , patriotic thing ; and so feasible , too , if Raleigh could but find ' six cents hommes qui savaient mourir . ' But that was just SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND HIS TIME .
... clear : there was no mistake about its being the absolutely right , wise , patriotic thing ; and so feasible , too , if Raleigh could but find ' six cents hommes qui savaient mourir . ' But that was just SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND HIS TIME .
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... clear Thames and the green Surrey hills , and dream about Guiana and the Tropics ; or to sit in the society of antiquaries with Selden and Cotton , Camden and Stow ; or in his own Mermaid Club , with Ben Jonson , Fletcher , Beaumont SIR ...
... clear Thames and the green Surrey hills , and dream about Guiana and the Tropics ; or to sit in the society of antiquaries with Selden and Cotton , Camden and Stow ; or in his own Mermaid Club , with Ben Jonson , Fletcher , Beaumont SIR ...
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... clear , save to those who Spaniards . will not see ? The plain fact is , that Raleigh went , with his eyes open , to take possession of a country to which he believed that he and King James had a right , and that James and his ...
... clear , save to those who Spaniards . will not see ? The plain fact is , that Raleigh went , with his eyes open , to take possession of a country to which he believed that he and King James had a right , and that James and his ...
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Página 60 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Página 204 - I'll forgive your Highland chief, My daughter ! — oh my daughter...
Página 315 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Página 154 - Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Página 316 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are : I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death, like sleep, might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 223 - Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn...
Página 359 - See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill...
Página 70 - I will add to your yoke : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Página 278 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Página 278 - No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!