Littell's Living Age, Volume 264Living Age Company, 1910 |
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Page 28
... eye to a hole in the dirty blind , and , going upstairs , fetched and pawned the belongings left in her charge ... eyes in debt at Colchester , had been compelled to exchange into a reg- iment of the King's Hanoverians quar- tered ...
... eye to a hole in the dirty blind , and , going upstairs , fetched and pawned the belongings left in her charge ... eyes in debt at Colchester , had been compelled to exchange into a reg- iment of the King's Hanoverians quar- tered ...
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... eyes , I staggered out into the glare of innumerable electric arc- lights . A big place lay before me . flanked on one side by the opera - house and on three by hotels and cafés . The blazing arc - lights fell fully upon the shining wet ...
... eyes , I staggered out into the glare of innumerable electric arc- lights . A big place lay before me . flanked on one side by the opera - house and on three by hotels and cafés . The blazing arc - lights fell fully upon the shining wet ...
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... eyes of all France were fixed upon us . I find now that the eyes of your Majesty alone marked our prog- That for us is a more than suf- ficient recompense for hardships en- dured . " ress . Which was well and prettily said , for what ...
... eyes of all France were fixed upon us . I find now that the eyes of your Majesty alone marked our prog- That for us is a more than suf- ficient recompense for hardships en- dured . " ress . Which was well and prettily said , for what ...
Page 43
... eyes of his . " It is always sufficiently difficult , le calcul , " he remarked blandly , as though stating an axiom . Finally , with a sort of inert despair , though the emotion working in him appeared to be too feeble to deserve that ...
... eyes of his . " It is always sufficiently difficult , le calcul , " he remarked blandly , as though stating an axiom . Finally , with a sort of inert despair , though the emotion working in him appeared to be too feeble to deserve that ...
Page 48
... eyes . But immediately the master's body had been carried ashore , the crew were at work unloading the catch and ... eye , and , stepping across to him , said , " Tell me how it happened , George 48 St. Andrew's Eve .
... eyes . But immediately the master's body had been carried ashore , the crew were at work unloading the catch and ... eye , and , stepping across to him , said , " Tell me how it happened , George 48 St. Andrew's Eve .
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Page 229 - Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Page 407 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 202 - At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a flutter'd bird, came flying from far away: "Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!
Page 610 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, — Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Page 388 - Lamp of Earth ! where'er thou movest, Its dim shapes are clad with brightness, And the souls of whom thou lovest Walk upon the winds with lightness, Till they fail, as I am failing, Dizzy, lost, yet unbewailing ! ASIA.
Page 388 - Life of Life ! thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them ; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.
Page 611 - For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the smooth-faced snubnosed rogue would leap from his counter and till, And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home.
Page 185 - While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 197 - By me o'r thee, as justments to the dead, Forgive, forgive me ; since I did not know Whether thy bones had here their rest, or no. But now 'tis known, behold, behold, I bring Unto thy ghost th...
Page 388 - I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine— have I not kept the vow? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from his voiceless grave ; they have in...