Colonial Times on Buzzard's BayHoughton, Mifflin, 1888 - 185 էջ |
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Էջ 167 - He tries, with ease and unconcern, To teach what ne'er himself could learn; Gives law and punishment alone, Judge, jury, bailiff, all in one; Holds all good learning must depend Upon his rod's extremest end, Whose great electric virtue's such, Each genius brightens at the touch; With threats and blows, incitements pressing...
Էջ 168 - Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial ; The charcoal frescos on its wall ; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to school, Went storming out to playing ! Long years ago a winter sun Shone over it at setting ; Lit up its western window-panes, And low eaves
Էջ i - THIS is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy Past The forms that once have been.
Էջ 184 - Revolution that, like most other revolutions, it " was the work of an energetic minority, who succeeded in committing an undecided and fluctuating majority to courses for which they had little love, and leading them step by step to a position from which it was impossible to...
Էջ 92 - Every Constable shall have a Black Staffe tipped with Brasse, as a Badge of his office, which as he hath opportunity, he shall take with him when he goeth to discharge any part of his office, yet notwithstanding, the want of his...
Էջ 124 - Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round.
Էջ 73 - Queen's commission to you directed, you shall do equal right to the poor and to the rich, after your cunning, wit and power, and after the laws and customs of the realm and statutes thereof made ; and ye shall not be of counsel of any quarrel hanging before you...
Էջ 188 - In their ragged regimentals Stood the old Continentals, Yielding not, When the grenadiers were lunging, And like hail fell the plunging Cannon shot; When the files Of the isles, From the smoky night encampment, bore the banner of the rampant Unicorn; And grummer, grummer, grummer, rolled the roll of the drummer Through the morn!
Էջ 234 - So sleep the saints, and cease to groan, When sin and death have done their worst : Christ has a glory like His own Which waits to clothe their waking dust ! " And this was the manner in which " this silver cord was loosed, and this golden bowl broken.