Littell's Living Age, Volume 23Living Age Company Incorporated, 1849 |
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... less utterable jargon - a somewhat more hideous buggaboo ? There is no bracing wonder here . We do not expect a new animal - scarcely a new plant : and when lately we were authentically told of a real wonder , in the shape of a sea ...
... less utterable jargon - a somewhat more hideous buggaboo ? There is no bracing wonder here . We do not expect a new animal - scarcely a new plant : and when lately we were authentically told of a real wonder , in the shape of a sea ...
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... less , of our position among On its appearance it was disavowed by Lieutenant the nations of the earth - with wealth more Lynch ; and from the explanations which passed abundant - dominions more widely spread - and on both sides in the ...
... less , of our position among On its appearance it was disavowed by Lieutenant the nations of the earth - with wealth more Lynch ; and from the explanations which passed abundant - dominions more widely spread - and on both sides in the ...
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... less difficulty than had been anticipated . Another addition to the party was made next day in the person of a Bedouin sheikh of the name of Akil , with ten well - armed Arabs . This person , described as a powerful border sheikh , had ...
... less difficulty than had been anticipated . Another addition to the party was made next day in the person of a Bedouin sheikh of the name of Akil , with ten well - armed Arabs . This person , described as a powerful border sheikh , had ...
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... less than plain , the bases of the mountains heaved the gar- twenty - seven very threatening ones , besides a great ment of the earth away , and rose abruptly in naked number of lesser magnitude ; and then , although pyramidal crags ...
... less than plain , the bases of the mountains heaved the gar- twenty - seven very threatening ones , besides a great ment of the earth away , and rose abruptly in naked number of lesser magnitude ; and then , although pyramidal crags ...
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... less diffi- and glimpse of the mountains far over the plain , and here and there a gurgling rivulet pouring its tribute of crystal water into the now muddy Jor- dan ; the western shore was peculiar from the high calcareous limestone ...
... less diffi- and glimpse of the mountains far over the plain , and here and there a gurgling rivulet pouring its tribute of crystal water into the now muddy Jor- dan ; the western shore was peculiar from the high calcareous limestone ...
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Page 373 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 400 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 395 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 373 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 401 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Page 380 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 401 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 141 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 380 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 400 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...