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Сторінка 132 - It seems as if the awful nature of the place presses down upon the soul and hushes the beholder into noiseless reverence. We feel that we are surrounded by the congregated bones of the great men of past times, who have filled history with their deeds and the earth with their renown.
Сторінка 134 - From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold: It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire, where they rise, they set.
Сторінка 151 - Anno D. 1571. 10 Sept. The most unhappy man in the world is he that is not patient in adversities ; For men are not killed with the adversities they have : but with ye impacience which they suffer.
Сторінка 150 - The more suffering for Christ in this world the more glory with Christ in the next,
Сторінка 58 - The crested crags grow higher, the river madly foams along its rocky bed, and anon the way becomes a mere fissure through the heights. Far above the road the sky forms a deep blue arch of light; but in the Gorge hang dark and sombre shades which the sun's rays have never penetrated. The place is a measureless gulf of air with solid walls on either side. Here the granite cliffs are a thousand feet high, smooth and unbroken by tree or shrub ; and there a pinnacle soars skyward for thrice that distance....
Сторінка 58 - After entering the depths of the canon, the train moves slowly along the sides of the Arkansas, and around projecting shoulders of dark-hued granite, deeper and deeper into the heart of the range. The crested crags grow higher, the river madly foams along its rocky bed, and anon the way becomes a mere fissure through the heights. Far above the road, the sky forms a deep blue arch of light ; but in the gorge hang dark and sombre shades, which the sun's rays have never penetrated. The place is a measureless...
Сторінка 212 - Thence to the famous Orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democracy, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
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