 | 1840 - 320 σελίδες
...idle employments ; and it is a reflection solemn and gratifying, that the " King of Terrors" found Byron in no moment of levity, but contributing his...only endeared to him, by their past glories, and as fellow creatures suffering under the yoke of an oppressor. ,'rusade for freedom ilden times, would... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 σελίδες
...but always with the deepest interest. All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest ! With a strong feeling of awful sorrow, we take leave...suffering under the yoke of a heathen oppressor. To have fallen in a crusade for Freedom and Humanity, as in olden times it would have been an atonement... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 σελίδες
...always with the deepest interest, 1 ' All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest ! * With a strong feeling of awful sorrow, we take leave...in behalf of a people only endeared to him by their own past glories, and as fellowcreatures suffering under the yoke of a heathen oppressor. To have fallen... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1849 - 420 σελίδες
...with the deepest interest. ' All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest.' •« 'With a strong feeling of awful sorrow we take leave...in behalf of a people only endeared to him by their own past glories, and as fellow-creatures suffering under the yoke of a heathen oppressor. To have... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - 520 σελίδες
...the poet is softened by a tender regret for the loss of the man. It concludes with the sentence, " Death creeps upon our most serious as well as upon...suffering under the yoke of a heathen oppressor." In October, 1824, when young Charles Scott went to the University of Oxford, Mr. Williams of Lampeter,... | |
 | George Bruce - 1876 - 642 σελίδες
...character. " It is," says Sir Walter Scott, " a reflection, solemn and gratifying, that death found Byron in no moment of levity, but contributing his...in behalf of a people only endeared to him by their own past glories, and as fellow-creatures suffering under the yoke of a heathen oppressor. To have... | |
 | 1893 - 490 σελίδες
...year, he had said, despondingly, to Count Gamba, " Where shall we be in another year? " Death found him in no moment of levity, but contributing his fortune, and hazarding his life, in a crusade for freedom, which may be allowed to expiate greater faults than even exaggerated calumny... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 σελίδες
...but always with the deepest interest All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest ! With a strong feeling of awful sorrow, we take leave...fellow-creatures suffering under the yoke of a heathen oppressor : (From Biographies.) THE COMEDY OF THE RESTORATION ANOTHER remarkable feature in the comedies which... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 462 σελίδες
...always with the deepest interest,— "A11 that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest!" With a strong feeling of awful sorrow, we take leave...fellowcreatures suffering under the yoke of a heathen oppressor. From "Biographies." JOHN SELDEN (1584-1654) JOHN SELDEN, remembered now as the author of Selden's *... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 452 σελίδες
...always with the deepest interest, — "All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest!" With a strong feeling of awful sorrow, we take leave...fellowcreatures suffering under the yoke of a heathen oppressor. From "Biographies." JOHN SELDEN (1584-1654) JOHN SELDEN, remembered now as the author of Selden's "... | |
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With a strong feeling of awful sorrow, we take leave of the subject. Death creeps upon our most serious as well as upon our most idle employments ; and it is a reflection solemn and gratifying, that he found our Byron in no moment of levity, but contributing... 
