Tales and BalladsW. Crosby, 1884 - 190 стор. |
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... waters of the great Western Plato gave a description of it to the Greeks , as he had heard it spoken of by Solon . It was the domain of Poseidon , or Neptune , who had a magnifi- cent palace in the centre of it . There were lofty ...
... waters of the great Western Plato gave a description of it to the Greeks , as he had heard it spoken of by Solon . It was the domain of Poseidon , or Neptune , who had a magnifi- cent palace in the centre of it . There were lofty ...
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... waters Were sprinkled with islands of gold . And they added , " The leafy Bimini , A fair land of grottoes and bowers , Is there ; and a wonderful fountain Upsprings from its gardens of flowers . That fountain gives life to the dying ...
... waters Were sprinkled with islands of gold . And they added , " The leafy Bimini , A fair land of grottoes and bowers , Is there ; and a wonderful fountain Upsprings from its gardens of flowers . That fountain gives life to the dying ...
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... water thereof being drunk , perhaps with some diet , maketh old men young again . " This he said on the authority of those who had 66 searched the same , " though I fear he had not seen any who had actually drunk the water . He asked ...
... water thereof being drunk , perhaps with some diet , maketh old men young again . " This he said on the authority of those who had 66 searched the same , " though I fear he had not seen any who had actually drunk the water . He asked ...
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... waters . He had not discovered an island , but our continent , and the country he was in has always since borne the name he gave it , Florida . It is a land of oranges and flowers , but it is not the Mysterious Island of Bimini . That ...
... waters . He had not discovered an island , but our continent , and the country he was in has always since borne the name he gave it , Florida . It is a land of oranges and flowers , but it is not the Mysterious Island of Bimini . That ...
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... water is filled with interest , and what shall be said of the mystery of the sea in the eyes of those who , five hundred years and more ago , looked from the shores of Europe over the wide Atlantic ? Can we fathom their feelings , or ...
... water is filled with interest , and what shall be said of the mystery of the sea in the eyes of those who , five hundred years and more ago , looked from the shores of Europe over the wide Atlantic ? Can we fathom their feelings , or ...
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Сторінка 110 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Сторінка 138 - THE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; 3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Сторінка 139 - Some put their trust in chariots, and some in horses ; but we will remember the Name of the LORD our God. 8 They are brought down, and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright. 9 Save, LORD; and hear us, O King of heaven, when we call upon thee.
Сторінка 163 - For force of will and vast conceptions; for various knowledge, and quick adaptation of his genius to untried circumstances ; for a sublime magnanimity, that resigned itself to the will of Heaven, and yet triumphed over affliction by energy of purpose and unfaltering hope — he had no superior among his countrymen.
Сторінка 80 - Britons, you stay too long: Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry gale Swell your stretch'd sail With vows as strong As the winds that blow you.
Сторінка 71 - A dreary place would be this earth> Were there no little people in it: The song of life would lose its mirth, Were there no children to begin it...
Сторінка 139 - In the name of the Most High, Mighty, and Redoubted Monarch, Louis, Fourteenth of that name, Most Christian King of France and of Navarre...
Сторінка 137 - O tree with royal purple dight ! Elect on whose triumphal breast Those holy limbs should find their rest ! On whose dear arms, so widely flung, The weight of this world's ransom hung ; The price of human kind to pay, And spoil the spoiler of his prey.
Сторінка 137 - THE Royal Banners forward go ; The Cross shines forth in mystic glow ; Where He in flesh, our flesh Who made, Our sentence bore, our ransom paid.
Сторінка 51 - God's ordinance upon him, even so the vehement persuasion of his friends could nothing avail to divert him from his wilful resolution of going in his frigate; and when he was entreated by the captain, master, and others, his wellwishers in the " Hinde," not to venture, this was his answer — "I will not forsake my little company going homewards, with whom I have passed so many storms and perils.