The British Quarterly Review, Том 8Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1848 |
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Сторінка 506 - below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Bound many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splinter'd pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the Pass; Huge as the tower which builders vain, Presumptuous, piled on Shinar's plain, The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement,
Сторінка 506 - The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way: Each purple peak, each flinty spire Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravine below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid,
Сторінка 46 - the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of Jehovah.' After this he himself took a public oath of allegiance to Jehovah, to abide by the covenant of the book, and was followed
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Сторінка 394 - herself down on the old coalhole steps, as you went into the old Grammar-school, and open her apron, and bring out her basin with some nice thing she had caused to be saved for me—the good old creature .is now lying on her deathbed; I cannot bear to think
Сторінка 347 - I want to live most for will be a great occasion of my death. I cannot help it. "Who can help it? Were I in health it would make me ill, and how can I bear it in my state? I dare say you will be able to
Сторінка 393 - got my father's leave to write awhile. With difficulty got it; ' for when I expostulated about playing any more, he aptly ' replied, ' If you wont play with me, you might as well not ' come home at all.' The argument was unanswerable, and I ' set to afresh.
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