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... mountain yet , When flits the bat before the shortened sight , And eve's bright watch along the heaven is set ; Or , like that beam , amidst the noontide night , When warring planets , in their courses met , Have frowned eclipse , and ...
... mountain yet , When flits the bat before the shortened sight , And eve's bright watch along the heaven is set ; Or , like that beam , amidst the noontide night , When warring planets , in their courses met , Have frowned eclipse , and ...
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... mountain vultures plume the ready wing ; The dawn of retribution breaks at last , And throned chiefs await your stern repast . Then sank the strain , but ere its sounds were past , The clash of arms - the neigh -- the tramp of steeds ...
... mountain vultures plume the ready wing ; The dawn of retribution breaks at last , And throned chiefs await your stern repast . Then sank the strain , but ere its sounds were past , The clash of arms - the neigh -- the tramp of steeds ...
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... mountains old , And calm was the forest's shade , And silent the stream , as it onward rolled , Through the lonely darksome glade . Yes , it was silent , though murm'ring slow , On its seaward course it swept , And kissed the banks ...
... mountains old , And calm was the forest's shade , And silent the stream , as it onward rolled , Through the lonely darksome glade . Yes , it was silent , though murm'ring slow , On its seaward course it swept , And kissed the banks ...
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... mountains which inclose the solitary vale , arise on either side to an almost Alpine height . On this spot , which might have been selected for a new Ther- mopyla , there dwelt a wretch whose birth disgraced the land of the mountain and ...
... mountains which inclose the solitary vale , arise on either side to an almost Alpine height . On this spot , which might have been selected for a new Ther- mopyla , there dwelt a wretch whose birth disgraced the land of the mountain and ...
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... mountainous countries of volcanic origin , and whose mouths , descending perpendicularly , conduct the torrents , which periodically fall , to the level of the ocean . Nor were his crimes for many years sus- pected , though his society ...
... mountainous countries of volcanic origin , and whose mouths , descending perpendicularly , conduct the torrents , which periodically fall , to the level of the ocean . Nor were his crimes for many years sus- pected , though his society ...
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Сторінка 253 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Сторінка 239 - Is it so?" reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne; "then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass.
Сторінка 216 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon ; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Сторінка 259 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Сторінка 283 - Scholars only — this immense And glorious Work of fine intelligence! Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
Сторінка 65 - Those who approach the study of this interesting subject with unbiassed minds will readily perceive that there must have existed an early period of lawlessness, in which it was with women as with other kinds of property, " that he should take who had the power, and he should keep who can"; that wives were first obtained by force, then by theft, and later by trade and bargain.
Сторінка 214 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Сторінка 97 - The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole range of English poetry. The scene indeed is laid in the very lowest department of low life, the actors being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse, and barter their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge alehouse.
Сторінка 145 - Tower Menagerie; comprising the Natural History of the Animals contained in that Establishment, with Anecdotes of their Characters and History. Illustrated by Portraits of each, taken from life, by William Harvey, [and engraved on Wood by Branston and Wright.
Сторінка 228 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.