Retrospection, Or, A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and Their Consequences, which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years Have Presented to the View of Mankind, Volume 1 |
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Page 194 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 204 - And there are seven kings : five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come ; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Page 365 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not ; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy.
Page 216 - The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it...
Page 126 - Lo ! these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day ! So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others good, or melt at others woe.
Page 231 - Well done, thou good and faithful fervant •, thou haft been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things : "enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Page 171 - We fought with swords: I am still full of joy when I -. think that a banquet is preparing for me in the palace of the gods. Soon, soon, in the splendid abode of Odin, we shall drink beer out of the skulls of our enemies. A brave man shrinks not from death. I shall utter no words expressive of fear as I enter the hall of Odin.
Page viii - Time and all its wrecks at length are loft ; our flafhy llctrofpcEl, a mere jet d'eau, may ferve to foothe the heats of an autumnal day with its light-dripping fall, and form a rainbow round. Did no fuch book catch the occurrences, and hold them up, however maimed and broken, before the eyes of our contemporaries, we really fhould very foon forget all that our anceftors had done or fuffered.
Page 96 - An added pudding folemniz'd the Lord's : Conftant at Church, and 'Change ; his gains were fure, His givings rare, fave farthings to the poor. The...
Page 223 - Dowager of France, sister of Henry VIII. At a tournament which he held at his wedding, the trappings of his horse were half cloth of gold, and half frieze, with the following motto: ' Cloth of Gold, do not despise, Tho' thou art matcht with Cloth of Frize; Cloth of Frize, be not too bold, Tho' thou art matcht with Cloth of Gold.