Belgravia, Том 32Willmer & Rogers, 1877 |
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... eyes the fugitive tip of a vanishing mys- tery , gone as soon as indicated . You cannot see what it is like . It was just the extreme tip that swept like a feather through the air ; but you saw enough to know the fact of a mystery , and ...
... eyes the fugitive tip of a vanishing mys- tery , gone as soon as indicated . You cannot see what it is like . It was just the extreme tip that swept like a feather through the air ; but you saw enough to know the fact of a mystery , and ...
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... eyes keenly on the impassive face before him , and said with as careless an air as he could assume : ' My friend is one of the Commissioners in Lunacy , and said that he had met Mr. Edward Smith when on his rounds . I do not suppose in ...
... eyes keenly on the impassive face before him , and said with as careless an air as he could assume : ' My friend is one of the Commissioners in Lunacy , and said that he had met Mr. Edward Smith when on his rounds . I do not suppose in ...
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... eyes , the freshness of her lips , and how white and shining were her small square teeth , noted too the innocence of her face , and the feminine strength that lay behind its girlish softness , he was angry with Lady Machell and himself ...
... eyes , the freshness of her lips , and how white and shining were her small square teeth , noted too the innocence of her face , and the feminine strength that lay behind its girlish softness , he was angry with Lady Machell and himself ...
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... eyes still turned appealingly to her mother . I do not think I can promise so many to one person . ' ' I think you are singling out my daughter for too much attention , Mr. Perceval , ' said Mrs. Smith gravely . ' I am not fond of this ...
... eyes still turned appealingly to her mother . I do not think I can promise so many to one person . ' ' I think you are singling out my daughter for too much attention , Mr. Perceval , ' said Mrs. Smith gravely . ' I am not fond of this ...
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... eyes , and the giants whose assaults she feared were only windmills on the horizon , while the real dangers were gliding at her feet unseen and unsuspected , untracked and suffered to glide and grow unchecked . CHAPTER IX . CLOUDS ON ...
... eyes , and the giants whose assaults she feared were only windmills on the horizon , while the real dangers were gliding at her feet unseen and unsuspected , untracked and suffered to glide and grow unchecked . CHAPTER IX . CLOUDS ON ...
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Сторінка 30 - ... and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
Сторінка 435 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Сторінка 487 - And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale, That the light of its tremulous bells is seen Through their pavilions of tender green...
Сторінка 437 - Listen, oh my son ! There is no wisdom equal unto the belief in God ! He created the world, and shall we liken ourselves unto him in seeking to penetrate into the mysteries of his creation ? Shall we say, Behold this star spinneth round that star, and this other star with a tail goeth and cometh in so many years ? Let it go I He, from whose hand it came, will guide and direct it...
Сторінка 205 - ... that those two comets passed directly over the city, and that so very near the houses that it was plain they imported something peculiar to the city alone ; that the comet before the pestilence was of a faint, dull, languid colour, and its motion very heavy, solemn, and slow ; but that the comet before the fire was bright and sparkling, or, as others said, flaming, and its motion swift and furious...
Сторінка 206 - I must confess, had so much of the common notion of such things in my head, that I was apt to look upon them as the forerunners and warnings of God's judgments; and especially when, after the Plague had followed the first, I yet saw another of the like kind, I could not but say, God had not yet sufficiently scourged the city.
Сторінка 46 - America, the electric signal-men received severe electric shocks. At a station in Norway the telegraphic apparatus was set fire to ; and at Boston, in North America, a flame of fire followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph, which writes down the message upon chemically prepared paper.
Сторінка 85 - Nimico a' lupi che gli danno guerra ; Con altra voce omai, con altro vello Ritornerò poeta, ed in sul fonte Del mio battesmo prenderò...
Сторінка 435 - And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich...
Сторінка 163 - She raised tragedy to the skies, or brought it down from thence. It was something above nature. We can conceive of nothing grander. She embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and deified mortals of elder time. She was not less than a goddess, or than a prophetess inspired by the gods. Power was seated on her brow, passion emanated from her breast as from a shrine. She was tragedy personified.