Temple Bar, Volume 9Ward and Lock, 1863 |
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Page 185 - And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Page 224 - ... ....Each alley has its brother, " And half the plat-form just reflects the other.
Page 215 - Gentlemen of thirty and forty years old were to stand like mutes and fools bareheaded before their parents ; and the daughters (grown women) were to stand at the cupboard-side during the whole time of...
Page 316 - OH ! the days are gone, when Beauty bright My heart's chain wove ; When my dream of life from morn till night Was love, still love. New hope may bloom, And days may come Of milder, calmer beam, But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream : No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
Page 537 - ... as mutes, and dumb as the Seriphian frogs. And indeed it is certain, great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue.' For so have I heard, that all the noises and prating of the pool, the croaking of frogs and toads, is hushed and appeased upon the instant of bringing upon them the light of a candle or torch. Every beam of reason and ray of knowledge checks the dissolutions of the tongue.
Page 599 - For wit, lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Page 276 - Spanish foot advancing in a convex line or wedge, pressed forwards to assail what seemed the flanks of the enemy's column ; so that, being already drawn up with too narrow a front by their original formation, they now became compressed still more by their own movements, the right and left converging towards the centre, till the whole army became one dense column, which forced its way...
Page 302 - ONE year ago, a ringing voice, A clear blue eye, And clustering curls of sunny hair, Too fair to die. Only a year, no voice, no smile, No glance of eye, No clustering curls of golden hair, Fair but to die ! One year ago, what loves, what schemes Far into life! What joyous hopes, what high resolves, "What generous strife ! The silent picture on the wall, The burial-stone...
Page 570 - Those seas are dangerous, graybeards swear, Whose sea-beach is the goblet's brim; And true it is they drown old Care, But what care we for him, So we but float on wine ! And true it is they cross in pain Who sober cross the Stygian ferry; But only make our Styx Champagne, And we shall cross right merry, Floating away on wine...
Page 324 - Oh, could I feel as I have felt, — or be what I have been, Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanish'd scene ; As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be, So, midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me.