Belgravia, Том 32Willmer & Rogers, 1877 |
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... voice , an ungrace- ful figure , a bad manner , and a nervous laugh - he gained no honour in his own neighbourhood , but fulfilled the fate accorded to local prophets , and was laughed at in proportion to his zeal and scouted in direct ...
... voice , an ungrace- ful figure , a bad manner , and a nervous laugh - he gained no honour in his own neighbourhood , but fulfilled the fate accorded to local prophets , and was laughed at in proportion to his zeal and scouted in direct ...
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... voice , his arm sawing the air like a pump - handle , and his head thrown back so far that his face was foreshortened to a chin and two nostrils , of what good were they to a fastidious generation which demands to be amused if it ...
... voice , his arm sawing the air like a pump - handle , and his head thrown back so far that his face was foreshortened to a chin and two nostrils , of what good were they to a fastidious generation which demands to be amused if it ...
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... voice and fixed his 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 ...
... voice and fixed his 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 ...
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... voice , sweet , low , and monotonous , without emphasis or faltering . ' I congratulate you , ' he said warmly . She bowed slightly . Thank you , ' was her answer . " The honour of the head of the house , the father of a family- nothing ...
... voice , sweet , low , and monotonous , without emphasis or faltering . ' I congratulate you , ' he said warmly . She bowed slightly . Thank you , ' was her answer . " The honour of the head of the house , the father of a family- nothing ...
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... voice . Muriel coloured , and for a moment hesitated . Guy Perceval was a good fellow enough , in spite of his crazes , now for blue - gum trees and now for oatmeal - porridge ; no one could be found to deny his substantial worth of ...
... voice . Muriel coloured , and for a moment hesitated . Guy Perceval was a good fellow enough , in spite of his crazes , now for blue - gum trees and now for oatmeal - porridge ; no one could be found to deny his substantial worth of ...
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Сторінка 31 - ... 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 442 - 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 495 - 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 442 - 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 194 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies: The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye...
Сторінка 293 - I WILL now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul ; not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God. For love of Thy love I do it; reviewing my most wicked ways in the very bitterness of my remembrance, that Thou mayest grow sweet unto me...
Сторінка 469 - TELL me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely Roman ? Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman ? Where is Echo, beheld of no man, Only heard on river and mere, — She whose beauty was more than human? . . . But where are the snows of yester-year?
Сторінка 207 - 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 47 - 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 206 - ... 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...