Littell's Living Age, Volume 42Living Age Company Incorporated, 1854 |
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... seemed for a time as if preserve her to me : " ordered Te Deum to be Sweden herself was about to pass away with sung , and all the usual rejoicings as for a her great monarch . She was hurled at once prince , and also smilingly remarked ...
... seemed for a time as if preserve her to me : " ordered Te Deum to be Sweden herself was about to pass away with sung , and all the usual rejoicings as for a her great monarch . She was hurled at once prince , and also smilingly remarked ...
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... seemed from this time to fragment of a few pages , written in French inspire a hope that experience would cool with characteristic force , but no elegance - down her strange effervescences , and issue in from which we have already ...
... seemed from this time to fragment of a few pages , written in French inspire a hope that experience would cool with characteristic force , but no elegance - down her strange effervescences , and issue in from which we have already ...
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... seemed so unlikely a step for a young woman of twenty - eight , fond of power and glory , her people were fain to regard it as a whim - a sort of threat to excite wonder , but which she would never put in execution . When she persisted ...
... seemed so unlikely a step for a young woman of twenty - eight , fond of power and glory , her people were fain to regard it as a whim - a sort of threat to excite wonder , but which she would never put in execution . When she persisted ...
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... seemed a triumhorse presented to her by the pope , clad like phal procession , the honors due to a crowned an Amazon , having a cardinal on each side , head being accorded her . In the amusing and surrounded by all the principal ...
... seemed a triumhorse presented to her by the pope , clad like phal procession , the honors due to a crowned an Amazon , having a cardinal on each side , head being accorded her . In the amusing and surrounded by all the principal ...
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... seemed to rouse her . Madame de Motteville says : " She contemplate flight . Four days after she had often sang in company as well as dreamed , spoken to the prior , on the 10th of November , was unequal in mood and free in talk as well ...
... seemed to rouse her . Madame de Motteville says : " She contemplate flight . Four days after she had often sang in company as well as dreamed , spoken to the prior , on the 10th of November , was unequal in mood and free in talk as well ...
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Page 288 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 239 - I live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too ; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
Page 164 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 49 - Twas at thy door, O friend ! and not at mine, The angel with the amaranthine wreath, Pausing, descended, and with voice divine, Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin ; And softly, from that hushed and darkened room, Two angels issued, where but one went in.
Page 144 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Page 66 - As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion...
Page 145 - ... the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing ; which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience...
Page 299 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Page 402 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Page 335 - If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think that Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper. It is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject than what that author has made use of in his Elements.