Littell's Living Age, Volume 23Living Age Company Incorporated, 1849 |
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... thing ? There is perhaps a lake . Well , less utterable jargon - a somewhat more hideous buggaboo ? There is no bracing ... things beyond the range of every -- a stronger or laxer twist of wool - a somewhat day experience were marvellous ...
... thing ? There is perhaps a lake . Well , less utterable jargon - a somewhat more hideous buggaboo ? There is no bracing ... things beyond the range of every -- a stronger or laxer twist of wool - a somewhat day experience were marvellous ...
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... things that have become inhabitants are not well known to us . They are our daily food . Even history is disenchanted . The differenced by small matters - dress , habits of life , strangest things have become comprehensible , pos ...
... things that have become inhabitants are not well known to us . They are our daily food . Even history is disenchanted . The differenced by small matters - dress , habits of life , strangest things have become comprehensible , pos ...
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... things in the gross , Being much too gross to see them in detail . ent travellers ; the comparison of whose statements | occasional generalizations of details , which the furnished a sufficiently correct idea of the figure reader of ...
... things in the gross , Being much too gross to see them in detail . ent travellers ; the comparison of whose statements | occasional generalizations of details , which the furnished a sufficiently correct idea of the figure reader of ...
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... things in the water . This tradition , and that respecting the buoyancy of the water , seem to be those alone that ... thing that surprised me much in my two journeys . In both there were in the com- pany some heretic merchants , who all ...
... things in the water . This tradition , and that respecting the buoyancy of the water , seem to be those alone that ... thing that surprised me much in my two journeys . In both there were in the com- pany some heretic merchants , who all ...
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... things in the gross , ent travellers ; the comparison of whose statements | occasional generalizations of details , which the furnished a sufficiently correct idea of the figure reader of such a work is entitled to expect , and and ...
... things in the gross , ent travellers ; the comparison of whose statements | occasional generalizations of details , which the furnished a sufficiently correct idea of the figure reader of such a work is entitled to expect , and and ...
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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...