A Modern Brigand, 第 2 巻

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R. Bentley, 1888
 

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282 ページ - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
84 ページ - 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. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
246 ページ - Such is human nature, that some persons lose their abhorrence of crime, in their admiration of its magnificent exhibitions. Ordinary vice is reprobated by them, but extraordinary guilt, exquisite wickedness, the high flights and poetry of crime, seize on the imagination, and lead them to forget the depths of the guilt, in admiration of the excellence of the performance, or the unequalled atrocity of the purpose.
7 ページ - I called it forth, and drew it into your service, a hardy and intrepid race of men ! men, who, when left by your jealousy, became a prey to the artifices of your enemies, and had gone nigh to have overturned the state in the war before the last.
1 ページ - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
216 ページ - Nor peace, nor ease, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too.
56 ページ - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
185 ページ - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
206 ページ - I would make a memorandum of the most improbable lie that could be invented by a viscountess dowager; as the old Duchess of Rutland * does when she is told of some strange casualty, ' Lucy, child, step into the next room and set that down' — 'Lord, Madam!' says Lady Lucy', 'it can't be true ! ' ' Oh, no matter, child ; it will do for news into the country next post.
276 ページ - Per me si va nella citta dolente, Per me si va nell' eterno dolore, Per me si va tra la perduta gente.

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