The two brothers1837 |
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acquired affectionate amused army battle bayonet better blow body booby brave Briton brother Charles Cæsar casion CHAP church Claggett companion comrades conversation courage dear death delight Dick Gascoyne Doctor DUBLIN endured enemy exclaimed exploits eyes fast father favour favourite fear feel fellow ferula field field of glory fight the Lord's fire fortune fortune of war French friend Dick gave geon George glory godfather grave grog gunpowder hand happy heart hero honour hope human immortal insult kill knew live looked mand Marlborough mind mother neighbouring never O'Flannaghan Ordo parson pleased poor Quaker rabbits ranks regiment replied respect rushed says scarcely scene Shakspeare slaughter soldier soon spirit storm stream talk taste tear thee ther thing thought Throgmorton Street toast touchwood tutor uncle and brother uncle's usher virtue warrior Wellington young
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Page 7 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 95 - My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!
Page 82 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Page 39 - I am old enough to have seen and observed that we are all playthings of fortune, and that it depends upon something as insignificant and precarious as the tossing up of a halfpenny whether a man rises to affluence and honours, or continues to his dying day struggling with the difficulties and disgraces of life.
Page 98 - Education and instruction are the means, the one by use, the other by precept, to make our natural faculty of reason both the better and the sooner able to judge rightly between truth and error, good and evil.
Page 10 - The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Page 65 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 14 - But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
Page 12 - Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God.
Page 61 - The' expanded waters gather on the plain : They float the fields, and overtop the grain; Then rushing onwards, with a sweepy sway, Bear flocks and folds and labouring hinds away.