The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 1Adam, Stevenson & Company, 1872 |
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... heart - stirring summons to glory . But the flag in the sunset seemed sadly to wave , And the drum's martial tone ... hearts the thoughts crowded , Of the light of the Past that would guide us no more , Of the Future in darkness shrouded ...
... heart - stirring summons to glory . But the flag in the sunset seemed sadly to wave , And the drum's martial tone ... hearts the thoughts crowded , Of the light of the Past that would guide us no more , Of the Future in darkness shrouded ...
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... heart ; For , boy , however we do praise ourselves , Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm , More longing , wavering , sooner lost and worn , Than women's are . " There surely spoke the poet's own personal experience . You don't fancy ...
... heart ; For , boy , however we do praise ourselves , Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm , More longing , wavering , sooner lost and worn , Than women's are . " There surely spoke the poet's own personal experience . You don't fancy ...
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Shakespeare unlocked his heart . " HARDEN . And you still persuade your- self Anne had a place there ? DELINA . - I am more certain she had a place in Shakespeare's heart than in his Son- nets ; for they resemble in their general ...
Shakespeare unlocked his heart . " HARDEN . And you still persuade your- self Anne had a place there ? DELINA . - I am more certain she had a place in Shakespeare's heart than in his Son- nets ; for they resemble in their general ...
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... heart , Which in thy breast doth live , as thine in me ; How can I then be elder than thou art ? O , therefore , love , be of thyself so wary , As I not for myself , but for thee will ; Bearing thy heart , which I will keep so chary ...
... heart , Which in thy breast doth live , as thine in me ; How can I then be elder than thou art ? O , therefore , love , be of thyself so wary , As I not for myself , but for thee will ; Bearing thy heart , which I will keep so chary ...
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... heart Can tell , most beauteous grew , each pinnacle , Bulwark , wall , tower , and citadel Of gold and gems in - wrought with wondrous art , A host of angels guarded from above ; Mystic their watchword - it was Love . Wandering I stray ...
... heart Can tell , most beauteous grew , each pinnacle , Bulwark , wall , tower , and citadel Of gold and gems in - wrought with wondrous art , A host of angels guarded from above ; Mystic their watchword - it was Love . Wandering I stray ...
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Page 3 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Page 225 - The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; - on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Page 3 - Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties.
Page 279 - Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace? we have made them a curse, Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own; And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?
Page 320 - It is the business of the politician, who is the philosopher in action, to find out proper means towards those ends, and to employ them with effect. Therefore every honourable connection will avow it is their first purpose to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution with all the power and authority of the State.
Page 450 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 226 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Page 223 - Moved to the window near, and see Once more before my dying eyes, ' Bathed in the sacred dews of morn The wide aerial landscape spread — The world which was ere I was born, The world which lasts when I am dead.
Page 226 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful...
Page 320 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by \ their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.