Littell's Living Age, Volume 112Living Age Company Incorporated, 1872 |
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... truth , such complete enthusiasm , such utter self - for- getfulness , what he represents , that he reaches a reality at one time sublime , at another terrible , and produces impressions on his audience which it would be simply absurd ...
... truth , such complete enthusiasm , such utter self - for- getfulness , what he represents , that he reaches a reality at one time sublime , at another terrible , and produces impressions on his audience which it would be simply absurd ...
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... truth , and like a petty tradesman of one of the brings in novelties and heresies ; for these Teheran bazaars , mounts upon the sakou . dramas keep growing under the pressure He beckons with his hand to the audience , of the actor's ...
... truth , and like a petty tradesman of one of the brings in novelties and heresies ; for these Teheran bazaars , mounts upon the sakou . dramas keep growing under the pressure He beckons with his hand to the audience , of the actor's ...
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... truth Given over to all our passions , we knew between them ! This very inferiority may no law but that of the strongest , when make the Koran , for certain purposes and God raised up among us a man of our own for people at a low stage ...
... truth Given over to all our passions , we knew between them ! This very inferiority may no law but that of the strongest , when make the Koran , for certain purposes and God raised up among us a man of our own for people at a low stage ...
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... truth ever crossed her mind . By a very early hour she had finished her house - work , dressed herself with more than her usual care , and taken up her po- sition on a seat at some little distance from the cottage , where she sat ...
... truth ever crossed her mind . By a very early hour she had finished her house - work , dressed herself with more than her usual care , and taken up her po- sition on a seat at some little distance from the cottage , where she sat ...
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... truth was , that though Mrs. Lee's schemes had up to this point succeeded beyond her expectations , the completion of them seemed to be as distant as ever . When Philip came home he always ap- peared glad to see Annie , whom he called ...
... truth was , that though Mrs. Lee's schemes had up to this point succeeded beyond her expectations , the completion of them seemed to be as distant as ever . When Philip came home he always ap- peared glad to see Annie , whom he called ...
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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...