The Purgatory of Suicides: A Prison-rhymeWatson, 1850 - 298 páginas |
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Apicius bard beam behold beneath blest bliss blood breath brood brother cease Chartist clay Cleombrotus clime cloth boards curse dark death Decemvir deeds deep didst Diogenes Laertius dost doth dread dream earth Empedocles essence eternal ev'n Evil eyes Fate fear fierce flame fled foul frown gazed Gironde gloom glorious glory glow Hades haste hath human kings Life's light Lucretius Lycurgus Man's meek methought Metrocles mind Mithridates mock Monarchs mortal mystery mystic Nature's neath o'er pain patriot pomps poor pride priest PURGATORY OF SUICIDES rapture regal Roman Rome's sage sceptre scorn seemed shade shapes Sheol shew sire Sisygambis slaves smile soon soul soul's spake spirit Stanza stern strange strife suffering sweet swell thee theme thine things thou thought thrall throne thy heart toil torturous Trophonius Truth twas Twill tyrants unto vile visage vision wild wisdom wrong yearning
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Página 223 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Página 200 - And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Página 114 - ... him. Was it real, or the effect of an excited imagination ? The mystery was not so easily solved. " He resolved in the morning to make no allusion to what had occurred the previous night, until he had watched carefully the faces of all the family, to discover whether any deception had been practised. When the guests assembled at breakfast his lordship searched in vain for those latent smiles, those conscious looks, that silent communication between parties, by which the authors and abettors of...
Página 133 - Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat ; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Página 225 - English, determined to destroy himself, and accordingly took his plates of the heart, and compared them with his breast. Exactly in the centre of the plate, he made a mark with a large, pin, then fixed the pin as near as he could judge in the same spot in his own breast, shoved it into the head, penetrated his heart, and expired.
Página 200 - And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.
Página 118 - Redbreast," mingle with their joy ! Did not they watch thy tenderlings, and wend With eager steps when school was o'er, a coy And wistful peep to take — lest some rude ruffian boy, With sacrilegious heart and hand, should rob Thy nest as heathenly as if
Página 48 - Of these twenty-nine not five remain; and they, as the Howards, for instance, are not Norman nobility. We owe the English peerage to three sources : the spoliation of the Church ; the open and flagrant sale of its honours by the elder Stuarts ; and the borough-mongering of our own times.
Página 249 - Montalba was discharging his last barrel at her, she succeeded in opening it. The family, alarmed by the firing, arrived, and she was saved. The old man, on seeing that she was beyond his reach, returned to his apartment, and blew out his brains. It seemed clear that he had resolved to make a sacrifice of the short remnant of his own life, in order to release his son and his grandson from their unfortunate connexion with Madame de Pontalba. But he failed none of her wounds were mortal ; and within...
Página 114 - ... supposed that some intruder must have entered into his apartment ; and, turning round hastily to the side from whence the light proceeded, he, to his infinite astonishment, saw, not the form of any human visitor, but the figure of a fair boy surrounded by a halo of glory. The spirit stood at some distance from his bed. Certain that his own faculties were not deceiving him, but suspecting he might be imposed on by the ingenuity of some of the numerous guests who were then inmates of the castle,...