Littell's Living Age, Volume 71Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1861 |
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... seemed incapable of understanding his de- fighting no more ; but the maimed giant feat , and groped and staggered out again . Blind and fainting it only required one or two more blows to finish the affair ; but the infliction of those ...
... seemed incapable of understanding his de- fighting no more ; but the maimed giant feat , and groped and staggered out again . Blind and fainting it only required one or two more blows to finish the affair ; but the infliction of those ...
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... seemed to re- duty to recant every observation we had quire . What was natural to him , was un- ever made that could by possibility imply natural to them . How it should be so , they the superiority of any country to our own . might be ...
... seemed to re- duty to recant every observation we had quire . What was natural to him , was un- ever made that could by possibility imply natural to them . How it should be so , they the superiority of any country to our own . might be ...
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... seemed to be sink- fessors , but to the people . I cannot think ing ( alles geht unter , as he said one night , that a work undertaken with such earnest - nur Gott bleibt ) that he felt this standing ness , and in such a spirit , would ...
... seemed to be sink- fessors , but to the people . I cannot think ing ( alles geht unter , as he said one night , that a work undertaken with such earnest - nur Gott bleibt ) that he felt this standing ness , and in such a spirit , would ...
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... seemed to be his destiny to be perpetually awakened from his first sleep towards midnight , and to be snatched from his cot and hurriedly dressed . Or else , where all the elements were raging , and the human storm howling , to be ...
... seemed to be his destiny to be perpetually awakened from his first sleep towards midnight , and to be snatched from his cot and hurriedly dressed . Or else , where all the elements were raging , and the human storm howling , to be ...
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... seemed agitated ; and the confidential ladies flitted to and fro , and whispered se- cretly with their majesties . Sharp , penetrat- ing child as he was , we may be sure he put many penetrating questions to that sub - gov- erness of his ...
... seemed agitated ; and the confidential ladies flitted to and fro , and whispered se- cretly with their majesties . Sharp , penetrat- ing child as he was , we may be sure he put many penetrating questions to that sub - gov- erness of his ...
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Page 223 - Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't; examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender Prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, 104 Even for an egg-shell.
Page 235 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue) A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page 463 - He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely. He doth bear His part, while the One Spirit's plastic stress...
Page 119 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him ; and he became a captain over them : and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 119 - LORD is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. 9 O fear the LORD, ye that are his saints: for they that fear him lack nothing. 10 The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good. 11 Come, ye children, and hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Page 463 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 92 - Sweetly along the Salem road Bloom of orchard and lilac showed. Little the wicked skipper knew Of the fields so green and the sky so blue.
Page 47 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street : On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined ; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet...
Page 518 - O bless our God, ye people, And make the voice of His praise to be heard : Which holdeth our soul in life, And suffereth not our feet to be moved.
Page 92 - Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead! Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, "God has touched him! why should we!