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Hark, the bells summon, and the bugle calls, But she the fairest answers not the tide Of nobles and of ladies throngs the halls, But she the loveliest must in secret hide. What eyes were thine, proud Prince, which in the gleam Of yon gay meteors lost that better sense, That o'er the glow-worm doth the star esteem, And merit's modest blush o'er courtly insolence?
The satirist called upon Hogarth by his name, to stand forth and be tried "in that great court where conscience must preside," bade him review his life from his earliest youth, and say if he could recall a single instance in which Thou with an equal eye didst genius view And give to merit what was merit's duet Genius and merit are a sure offence, And thy soul sickens at the name of sense.
"The midnight torch gleamed o'er the steamer's side, And merit's corse was yielded to the tide." Fallacies of Hope. The "Fallacies of Hope" was an imaginary poem from which Turner professed to quote whenever he wanted a line or a couplet to explain his pictures, the avowed quotation being really of his own composition.
The temptation is always around us; and it is well to look carefully into our life from time to time, to be quite sure, lest almost insensibly its strong energetic spirit may not be in process of deterioration as the soldiers of Hannibal in the plains of Capua. If so, resolve to do without, not for merit's sake, but to conserve the strength and simplicity of your soul. His noble office.
"I take this garland, not as given by you; But as my merit's and my beauty's due; As for the crown which you, my slave, possess, To share it with you would but make me less." In return for such proofs of tenderness as these, her admirer consents to murder his two sons and a benefactor to whom he feels the warmest gratitude.
He did not tell her that there, where his merit's were not known, he had been offered only twenty dollars, but she surmised his disappointment. "You'd better be after seeing the boss again, maybe, Peter dear," she said timidly. "Not a step," he answered. "The boss'll be after me in a few days, you'll see." But there he was mistaken, for all the gangs were full.
'These remarkable lines entirely explain the meaning of the picture; another piece is described by lines from the same poem, in a metre more regular "The midnight torch gleamed o'er the steamer's side, And merit's corse was yielded to the tide."
"There are good reasons why I should do so. I haven't forgotten that my advancement is largely due to you." Mrs. Chudleigh laughed. "If you hint as much in public, it may come to a sudden end. You ought to know that promotion is now made on merit." "I'm modest. My merit's an uncertain quantity, but there's no doubt about your influence. I'd sooner trust to it." The remark was justified.
Things are altered now: merit's claims are no longer allowed, or I should be living on shore now." Mr Johnson pointed significantly at the Admiral's pen. "Ah! oui! I vonce read of von great man, Sinbad de Sailor, and von oder man, Captain Lemuel Gulliver. You vary like dem gentlemen," observed Colonel Pinchard, with the politest of bows, to the boatswain.
and musing in his mind how to celebrate them in polished verse so that even the critics may be satisfied "Thy sons, Edina! social, kind, With open arms the stranger hail; Their views enlarged, their liberal mind, Above the narrow, rural vale; Attentive still to sorrow's wail, Or modest merit's silent claim; And never may their sources fail! And never envy blot their name!"
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