Ellen Glanville, Band 2

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E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 1838
 

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Seite 202 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die...
Seite 49 - Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him : but weep sore for him that goeth away : for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Seite 22 - I believed the interests, temporal and eternal, of many millions to be wrapped up in the success of his Administration, and no man should live for himself alone, but should do his duty in that state of life to which it should please God to call him, I would, if he really and truly thought I could serve his purpose, accept, if he wished it, the office of Chief Scullion ! I thought he would have burst into tears. ' You have given me,' he said, ' more relief than you are aware of.
Seite 47 - Nay, we do not stand much on our gentility, friend; yet you are welcome: and I assure you mine uncle here is a man of a thousand a year, Middlesex land. He has but one son in all the world, I am his next heir, at the common law, master Stephen, as simple as I stand here, if my cousin die, as there's hope he will: I have a pretty living o' mine own too, beside, hard by here.
Seite 12 - I could not love thce, dear, so much Loved I not honor more;"— for these were times when there seemed to be no soch titing left as political honor.
Seite 61 - Tis all on me an usurpation. I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher; In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six...
Seite 71 - Novi hominem tanquam te ; his humor is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical.
Seite 117 - ... complete void. Nothing whatever of interest is to be found in any section. Even the customary laudation of the state and progress of medicine and therapeutics is absent this year. We suppose that the gentlemen who read the addresses were convinced that this sort of thing was played out, and that all that remained to be done was to make the best of a bad business. The general tone is one of unmistakable dissatisfaction with the present state of therapeutics. There is a want of reality and enthusiasm...
Seite 81 - Candour — which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well ; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same ; And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white.
Seite 174 - Oh, I must coldly learn to hide One thought, all else above Must call upon my woman's pride To hide my woman's love! Check dreams I never may avow; Be free, be careless, cold as thou! Oh! those are tears of bitterness, Wrung from the breaking heart, When two, blest in their tenderness Must learn to live - apart!

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