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Page 67 - Upon those boughs which strike against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.'
Page 67 - no more! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast;
Page 254 - of office shall be three years. At the first appointment under this article, two managers shall be appointed for one year, two for two years and two for three years, and thereafter two shall be appointed annually. In case of a vacancy, the president of the
Page 233 - The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves ; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Page 67 - gnawing conscience. Picture Macbeth when he fancies he hears the cry : "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast;
Page 233 - of lawful authority between burdens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society; to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness —cherishing the first, avoiding the last, and uniting a speedy but temperate vigilance against encroachments, with an inviolable respect to the laws.
Page 74 - A light broke in upon my brain — It was the carol of a bird ; It ceased and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard. I saw them—and they were the same, They were not changed like me in frame, I saw their thousand years of snow > On high—their wide, long lake below, And the blue Rhone in fullest flow
Page 73 - Lake Léman lies by Chillon's walls ; A thousand feet in depth below Its massy waters meet and flow ; Thus much the fathom line was sent From Chillon's snow-white battlement, Which round about the wave enthralls ; A double dungeon wall and wave Have made—and like a living grave Below the surface of the lake, The dark vault lies wherein we lay ; We heard
Page 73 - and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left, Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp : And in each pillar there is a ring And in each ring there is a chain.
Page 35 - In fact, Dr. Blimber's establishment was a great hot-house, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical gooseberries (very sour ones, too) were common at untimely seasons, and from mere sprouts of bushes, under Dr.