The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast ...

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Brann publishers, Incorporated, 1919
 

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172 ページ - Clime of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mountain cave Was Freedom's home, or Glory's grave ! Shrine of the mighty ! can it be That this is all remains of thee ? Approach...
170 ページ - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
45 ページ - ... for the greater glory of God!" Corbett says: One greedy and merciless minion after another was sent to Ireland to goad that devoted people to acts of desperation, and that too, not only for the obvious purpose, but for the avowed purpose, of obtaining a pretense for new confiscations. The "Reformation" from its very outset had plunder written on its front; but as to Ireland it was all plunder, from the crown of its head to the sole of its foot. This horrible lynx-like she-tyrant could not watch...
170 ページ - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
170 ページ - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw. And 'deal damnation round the land. On each I judge thy foe.
136 ページ - ... another: that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon, real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
44 ページ - Lingard avers that she assigned to her favorite paramour "an apartment contiguous to her own bedchamber, and by this indecent act proved that she had become regardless of her character and callous to every sense of shame. The court," he naively adds, "imitated the manners of the sovereign." And for nearly half a century this was the Anglican Vatican — with Dudley, Raleigh, Blount, Oxford, Anjou, Simier, Hatton, et id genus omnes as College of Cardinals ! Under such happy auspices the H'english...
41 ページ - Intolerance is always bad. But the sanguinary intolerance of a man who thus wavered in his creed excites a loathing, to which it is difficult to give vent without calling foul names.
28 ページ - Our bruised arms hung up for monuments ; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
284 ページ - Life of Johnson has time done, is time still doing, what no ornament of art or artifice could have done for it. Rough Samuel and sleek wheedling James were, and are not. Their life and whole personal environment has melted into air. The Mitre...

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