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... attempting the conquest of that wealthy and important portion of our oriental dominions . It was therefore deemed necessary to sound the dispositions , and to conciliate the co - operation , of those ruling princes of the East , through ...
... attempting the conquest of that wealthy and important portion of our oriental dominions . It was therefore deemed necessary to sound the dispositions , and to conciliate the co - operation , of those ruling princes of the East , through ...
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... attempt a visit to it , notwithstanding the declared prohibition of the Wehabees . Proceeding in- land from a town on the coast , against the intreaty of his friends und attendants , he actually pressed forwards till within a small ...
... attempt a visit to it , notwithstanding the declared prohibition of the Wehabees . Proceeding in- land from a town on the coast , against the intreaty of his friends und attendants , he actually pressed forwards till within a small ...
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... attempts to moralize on the difference of national character , as in the outset of his book after having crossed the Streights of Gibraltar . All this might pass merely as a slender drawback from a work in which the activity and ...
... attempts to moralize on the difference of national character , as in the outset of his book after having crossed the Streights of Gibraltar . All this might pass merely as a slender drawback from a work in which the activity and ...
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... attempts at fine writing , which are almost invariably unsuccessful . In France , where an un- usual latitude of style is permitted even in prose - compositions , such absurdities are not uncommon : but we are rather sur- prized that a ...
... attempts at fine writing , which are almost invariably unsuccessful . In France , where an un- usual latitude of style is permitted even in prose - compositions , such absurdities are not uncommon : but we are rather sur- prized that a ...
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... attempt was made to remove it , but without scrocess . Mr. Mornay found it still lying on the carriage on which it had been placed twenty - five years before , and had therefore an excellent opportunity of examining every part of it ...
... attempt was made to remove it , but without scrocess . Mr. Mornay found it still lying on the carriage on which it had been placed twenty - five years before , and had therefore an excellent opportunity of examining every part of it ...
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Сторінка 128 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Сторінка 304 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learned the language of another world.
Сторінка 302 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Сторінка 301 - Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence, make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves, And trust not to each other.
Сторінка 300 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; «° They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Сторінка 20 - To get over this, my way is, to divide half a sheet of paper by a line into two columns; writing over the one pro, and over the other con; then during three or four days' consideration, I put down under the different heads short hints of the different motives, that at different times occur to me, for or against the measure. When I have thus got them all together in one view, I...
Сторінка 284 - Nymph of a fair, but erring line ! " Gently he said — "One hope is thine. Tis written in the Book of Fate, The Peri yet may be forgiven Who brings to this Eternal Gate The Gift that is most dear to Heaven ! Go, seek it, and redeem thy sin — Tis sweet to let the Pardon'd in ! " Rapidly as comets run To th...
Сторінка 286 - Cheer'd by this hope, she bends her thither ; — Still laughs the radiant eye of heaven, Nor have the golden bowers of even In the rich west begun to wither ; — When, o'er the vale of Balbec winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue damsel-flies, That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems...
Сторінка 287 - And how felt he, the wretched Man reclining there — while memory ran o'er many a year of guilt and strife, flew o'er the dark flood of his life, nor found one sunny resting-place, nor brought him back one branch of grace !
Сторінка 304 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watchdog bay'd beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...