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Página 62 - Mihi est propositum in taberna mori ; Vinum sit appositum morientis ori : Ut dicant, cum venerint, angelorum chori, Deus sit propitius huic potatori.
Página 285 - Minstrel, awaken the harp from its slumbers, Strike for Old Norway, the land of the free ! High and heroic, in soul-stirring numbers, Clime of our fathers ! we strike it for thee. Old recollections Awake our affections ; They hallow the name of the land of our birth : Each heart beats its loudest, each cheek glows its proudest. For Norway the ancient, the throne of the earth.
Página 63 - The Kingdom of Norway is a free, independent, indivisible, and inalienable kingdom. Its form of government is a limited and hereditary monarchy.
Página 285 - Spirit ! look back on her far-flashing glory, The far-flashing meteor that bursts on thy glance, On chieftain and hero immortal in story, They press to the battle like maids to the dance. The blood flows before them, The wave dashes o'er them, They reap with the sword what they plough with the keel ; Enough that they leave To the country that bore them Bosoms to bleed for her freedom and weal.
Página 279 - Who loves not woman, wine, and song, Remains a fool his whole life long.
Página 170 - Byron characterizes matrimony as the finger-post of DoctorsCommons. "Not a divorce stirring," he writes to the poet Moore, " but a good many in embryo in the shape of marriages.
Página 77 - The nearest heir to the throne, if he is the son of the reigning King, shall bear the title of crown prince. The other persons entitled to succeed to the crown, are to be called princes, and the daughters of the royal house princesses.
Página 47 - As the Norway woodman quells, In the depth of piny dells, One light flame among the brakes, While the boundless forest shakes, And its mighty trunks are torn By the fire thus lowly born : The spark beneath his feet is dead, He starts to see the flames it fed Howling through the darkened sky With a myriad tongues victoriously...
Página 217 - O that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and dissolve itself into a dew!
Página 136 - He eschewed neckcloths, and delighted not in watery potations. No likeness beyond this, and the fact of both being poets, was discoverable. When I saw him for the first time, he recalled to my mind the likenesses I had seen of Burns, except that he was bigger by some four inches, and heavier by some three stone.

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