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... human race have been wantonly and inhumanly butchered . But great and glorious as is the era in which we now live , many , it must be confessed , are the unfounded theories , many the disgraceful systems which usurp an almost un ...
... human race have been wantonly and inhumanly butchered . But great and glorious as is the era in which we now live , many , it must be confessed , are the unfounded theories , many the disgraceful systems which usurp an almost un ...
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... human heart , as to leave , at the mercy of a may , or a might , or a generally , her unequivocal feelings , and her definite and pointed expressions ? It cannot be . Whatever man's character is , her character is consistency . However ...
... human heart , as to leave , at the mercy of a may , or a might , or a generally , her unequivocal feelings , and her definite and pointed expressions ? It cannot be . Whatever man's character is , her character is consistency . However ...
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John White (A.M.). less as is the human race , unexceptionable as unexception- ability itself ; since we see all this , we shall show that Walker was not altogether blind to the great and unbound- ed influence which emphasis exercised ...
John White (A.M.). less as is the human race , unexceptionable as unexception- ability itself ; since we see all this , we shall show that Walker was not altogether blind to the great and unbound- ed influence which emphasis exercised ...
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... human skill and labour . You tread continually on steps , pavement , pillar , capital , or cornice , of rude relief , displaced or fallen , and mingled in confusion . There large masses of such materials have formed brush- covered rocks ...
... human skill and labour . You tread continually on steps , pavement , pillar , capital , or cornice , of rude relief , displaced or fallen , and mingled in confusion . There large masses of such materials have formed brush- covered rocks ...
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... human creatures , with as many pleasures , and fewer cares than their supe- riors ; with affections not only as strong , but often as delicate was those whose language is smoother and with a view of humour , a force of sagacity , and ...
... human creatures , with as many pleasures , and fewer cares than their supe- riors ; with affections not only as strong , but often as delicate was those whose language is smoother and with a view of humour , a force of sagacity , and ...
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Сторінка 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Сторінка 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Сторінка 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Сторінка 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Сторінка 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Сторінка 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Сторінка 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Сторінка 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Сторінка 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Сторінка 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...