A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robert PeelLongman, 1860 - 314 strán (strany) |
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Strana 314 - Only by links of love: when thou art gone, What will be left to us !— But, I forget My purposes. Lay now the corner-stone, As I requested; and hereafter, Luke, When thou art gone away, should evil men Be thy companions, think of me, my Son, And of this moment; hither turn thy thoughts, And God will strengthen thee: amid all fear And all temptation...
Strana 1 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading ; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
Strana 58 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power, (power of herself Would come uncalled for,) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Strana 64 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love...
Strana 307 - What is it more than this — That Man, who is from God sent forth, Doth yet again to God return? — Such ebb and flow must ever be, Then wherefore should we mourn?
Strana 204 - Unhappily, while the. natural growth of society went on, the artificial polity continued unchanged. The ancient form of the representation remained ; and precisely because the form remained, the spirit departed. Then came that pressure almost to bursting, the new wine in the old bottles, the new society under the old institutions.
Strana 195 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
Strana 307 - And many thousands now are sad — Wait the fulfilment of their fear; For he must die who is their stay, Their glory disappear. A Power is passing from the earth To breathless Nature's dark abyss; But when the great and good depart What is it more than this — That Man, who is from God sent forth, Doth yet again to God return?
Strana 3 - It did through all the mighty poets roll, Who Greek or Latin laurels wore, And was that Sappho last, which once it was before.
Strana 257 - ... of principle ; that vague and unmeaning professions of popular opinions may quiet distrust for a time, may influence this or that election ; but that such professions must ultimately and signally fail, if, being made, they are not adhered to, or if they are inconsistent with the honour and character of those who make them.