Every day papers, by Andrew Halliday, Volumen1 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 143 - The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it; it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.
Página 210 - ON ST CECILIA'S DAY. iiDccvm. 1 DESCEND, ye Nine ! descend and sing ; The breathing instruments inspire ; Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre. In a sadly-pleasing strain Let the warbling lute complain : Let the loud trumpet sound, Till the roofs all around The shrill echoes rebound: While in more lengthen'd notes and slow, The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow.
Página 143 - The lives of many. The cease of majesty Dies not alone ; but, like a gulf, doth draw What's near it with it : it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortised and adjoin'd ; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin.
Página 146 - He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
Página 211 - And fate's severest rage disarm : Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praise confin'd the sound. When the full organ joins .the tuneful quire, Th...
Página 214 - He is evidently in dead earnest about this matter, and devotes a whole long chapter to setting ont his case ; but the scientific and methodical manner in which he tabulates the " instruments of torture permitted by the Government to be in daily and nightly use in the streets of London " has a slightly comical appearance.
Página 242 - He has got used to living, and thinks he will live on indefinitely just the same, as a man used to wealth thinks he will always have turtle and champagne for dinner. I don't say that this is not a comfortable state of feeling to arrive at, so as you carry with you a pure heart and a clear conscience ; but I think you miss the lesson which chasteneth a man to most profit, and teacheth him most fully the philosophy of life, if you escape over the bridge of mid-life without passing through the valley...
Página 214 - ... portion of the inhabitants of London. It robs the industrious man of his time ; it annoys the musical man by its intolerable badness ; it irritates the invalid ; deprives the patient, who at great inconvenience has visited London for the best medical advice, of that repose which, under such circumstances, is essential for his recovery, and it destroys the time and the energies of all the intellectual classes of society by its continual interruptions of their pursuits.
Página 238 - Carpe diem is a mimm little heeded. A miserly maxim. As if a day were of any account! A youth with many years in store for him throws away a day as a rich man throws away a guinea. ' There are plenty more. The sun will rise to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, and my purse will fill with days as fast as it is emptied.
Página 268 - THAT WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER!