Poems [Signed A. Cochrane. With MS. note by the author 'Uncorrected copy']. |
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afar Affection's Alexander Cochrane bard bark beam beauty billows blast bliss borne breast breathes breeze brow burst calm canst cast CHARING CROSS charms cheek clime cling Corneille Corneille's dark dastard spoils death deep doom e'en earth eloquence embowers Erostratus fame fancied fate feeling fled flow flowers fond forget thee fount French Revolution friends gaze glowing grassy mead grief hallow'd heard heart Heaven Honour household gods joys Leonidas light Love lyre marble marbled slab Médée Memory mind minstrel Mirabeau misery muse ne'er neath never night noblest Ocean's pale Palinurus Passion's pensive sigh Perchance poetry ruin'd scene Shakspeare shed shore shrine smile soft Somerset sorrow soul sparkling spirit spot star stone stood strain sweet sweetest tears tempests thine thou thought tomb trod tumulus tyrant's Virtue Virtue's Voltaire vows wander warm wave weep wend wild romance wildest wind wing woos young Zephyr wafts
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Page 31 - If I sail on the Thames and split my vessel on an anchor, in case there be no buoy to give warning, the party shall pay me damages : but if the anchor be marked out, then is the striking on it at my own peril. Where is the mark set upon this crime? — Where the token by which I should discover it...
Page 35 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties ; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections ; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
Page 31 - Where has this fire been so long buried during so many centuries, that no smoke should appear till it burst out at once to consume me and my children? Better it were to live under no law at all, and by the maxims of cautious prudence to conform ourselves the best we can to the arbitrary will of a master, than fancy we have a law on which we can rely, and find at last, that this law shall inflict a punishment precedent to the promulgation, and try...
Page 33 - Thus perished Sir Thomas More, in the fifty-ninth year of his age, deeply lamented by all who knew his worth, and admired even by his enemies. By those who knew him best, and who shared his intimate friendship, his loss was bewailed as an irreparable calamity. ' More is dead ! ' says Erasmus, in the accents of despondency, ' More ! whose breast was purer than snow, whose genius was excellent above all his nation.
Page 34 - Eripuit nobis, medioque sub sequore mersit ? Die age. Namque mihi, fallax haud ante repertus, Hoc uno responso animum delusit Apollo, Qui fore te ponto incolumem, finesque canebat Venturum Ausonios. En hsec promissa fides est ?" Ille autem : " Neque te Phœbi cortina fefellit, Dux Anchisiada, nee me deus sequore mersit.
Page 33 - Greek who had burned down the temple of Diana at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, just for the hell of it.
Page 36 - RHODES is a truly delightful spot : the air of the place is healthy ; and its gardens are filled with delicious fruit. Here, as in Cos, every gale is scented with the most powerful fragrance, which is wafted from groves of orange and citron trees. Numberless aromatic herbs exhale at the same time such profuse odour, that the whole atmosphere seems to be impregnated with a spicy perfume.
Page vii - Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name * There be, perhaps, who barren hearts avow, Cold as the rocks on Torneo's hoary brow...
Page 33 - ... obtain success in his profession, or the favour of his prince, was the strenuous discharge of his duty ; yet such a reputation did he acquire, that he was loaded with professional business amidst an extensive competition, and compelled by his sovereign to accept of the most coveted public employments. As a pleader, his exertions were never unapplauded ; as a judge, his decisions were never controverted ; as a statesman, his counsels were never suspected.
Page 35 - Small waxen images of them, clothed with the skio of a dog, were placed round the hearth in the hall. On festivals they were crowned with garlands, and sacrifices were offered to them.