The Life and Times of Montrose

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Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale Court, 1840 - 537 trang
 

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Trang 445 - Great, good, and just ! could I but rate My griefs, and thy too rigid fate ; I'd weep the world to such a strain, As it should deluge once again ; " But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies, More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes ; I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds.
Trang 99 - I came from home, till my head was again homeward; for I was as a man who had taken my leave from the world, and was resolved to die in that service without return.
Trang 391 - Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me : he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
Trang 424 - I'LL NEVER LOVE THEE MORE" MY dear and only Love, I pray This little world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy; For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, And hold a synod in thy heart, I'll never love thee more.
Trang 292 - Come every hill-plaid and True heart that wears one, Come every steel blade and Strong hand that bears one.
Trang 153 - Your Majesty in all time coming. They have no other end but to preserve their religion in purity, and their liberties entire. That they intend the overthrow of monarchical government is a calumny. They are capable of no other, for many and great reasons; and ere they will admit another than Your Majesty, and after you your son and nearest of your posterity, to sit upon your throne, many thousands of them will spend their dearest blood.
Trang 100 - Had ye lent your ear in the morning, or especially at even, and heard in the tents the sound of some singing psalms, some praying and some reading Scripture, ye would have been refreshed : true, there was swearing and cursing and brawling in some quarters, whereat we were grieved ; but we hoped, if our camp had been a little settled, to have gotten some way for these misorders...
Trang 18 - How often," was he accustomed to say, is it the interest of four or five ministers to combine together to deceive their sovereign ! Secluded from mankind by his exalted dignity, the truth is concealed from his knowledge ; he can see only with their eyes, he hears nothing but their misrepresentations. He confers the most important offices upon vice and weakness, and disgraces the most virtuous and deserving among his subjects. By such infamous arts," added Diocletian, " the best and wisest princes...
Trang 380 - For what is to be done after one that is so near me as you are, both in blood and friendship, submits himself to so mean an action (I give it the easiest term) ? such — I have so much to say, that I will say no more of it...
Trang 378 - They have brought them from the Amal'ekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

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