Littell's Living Age, Volume 112Living Age Company Incorporated, 1872 |
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... eyes grow dim and strange to all . - Time speeds away — away Like torrent in a stormy day . away ; He undermine the stately tower , - Uproots the tree and snaps the flower , And sweeps from our distracted breast I turned and clasped her ...
... eyes grow dim and strange to all . - Time speeds away — away Like torrent in a stormy day . away ; He undermine the stately tower , - Uproots the tree and snaps the flower , And sweeps from our distracted breast I turned and clasped her ...
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... eyes are wet with tears , my lips are dried up with thirst . To live is worse than to die . What shall I do , seeing what hath befal- len Ali - Akber ? If Hussein suffereth me not to go out , O misery ! for then what shall I do , O God ...
... eyes are wet with tears , my lips are dried up with thirst . To live is worse than to die . What shall I do , seeing what hath befal- len Ali - Akber ? If Hussein suffereth me not to go out , O misery ! for then what shall I do , O God ...
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... eyes . A tear trickled down the sol- dier's venerable beard ; and the boldest of his men fell back on every side as the dy- ing Imam threw himself among them . The remorseless Shemera name de- tested by the faithful - reproached their ...
... eyes . A tear trickled down the sol- dier's venerable beard ; and the boldest of his men fell back on every side as the dy- ing Imam threw himself among them . The remorseless Shemera name de- tested by the faithful - reproached their ...
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... eyes of mil- lions of our race the lesson so loved by the sufferer of Calvary . For he said : " Learn of me , that I am mild , and lowly of heart ; and ye shall find rest unto your souls . " From Good Cheer . THE NEAP REEF . BY MRS ...
... eyes of mil- lions of our race the lesson so loved by the sufferer of Calvary . For he said : " Learn of me , that I am mild , and lowly of heart ; and ye shall find rest unto your souls . " From Good Cheer . THE NEAP REEF . BY MRS ...
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... eyes on him in the village . Have you seen him down here yet ? Margot shook her head . " Do you know if he came last night ? " she asked . " Yes , he came , ' cos I met one or two that saw him . " Dick did not say that his principal in ...
... eyes on him in the village . Have you seen him down here yet ? Margot shook her head . " Do you know if he came last night ? " she asked . " Yes , he came , ' cos I met one or two that saw him . " Dick did not say that his principal in ...
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Page 284 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 71 - The other shape, — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either, — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 68 - A nun demure of lowly port; Or sprightly maiden, of Love's court, In thy simplicity the sport Of all temptations; A queen in crown of rubies drest ; A starveling in a scanty vest; Are all, as seems to suit thee best, Thy appellations.
Page 256 - Strange to think by the way, Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
Page 408 - He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Page 408 - To rescue Israel from the Roman yoke ; Then to subdue and quell, o'er all the earth, Brute violence and proud tyrannic power, Till truth were freed, and equity restored...
Page 68 - To every natural form, rock, fruit, or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the highway, I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling : the great mass Lay bedded in a quickening soul, and all That I beheld respired with inward meaning.
Page 69 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 73 - By the mercy of God, I am already come within twenty years of his number, a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
Page 5 - He traversed the desert of Arabia with a timorous retinue of women and children ; but as he approached the confines of Irak he was alarmed by the solitary or hostile face of the country, and suspected either the defection or ruin of his party. His fears were just: Obeidollah, the governor of Cufa, had...