Littell's Living Age, Volume 264Living Age Company, 1910 |
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... word grown colorless and bleak I see the blood of Doges in your cheek , And in your hair the Titian tints of flame . Daughter of England too , you first drew breath Where our coy Springs to our coy Sum- mers yield ; And you descend from ...
... word grown colorless and bleak I see the blood of Doges in your cheek , And in your hair the Titian tints of flame . Daughter of England too , you first drew breath Where our coy Springs to our coy Sum- mers yield ; And you descend from ...
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... word , every clue had failed them , nor did lavish offers of reward bring further information . Gibraltar was the ... words ? No. But his silence is probably inadvertent . I have ascertained that there is no Bas- kett in orders in ...
... word , every clue had failed them , nor did lavish offers of reward bring further information . Gibraltar was the ... words ? No. But his silence is probably inadvertent . I have ascertained that there is no Bas- kett in orders in ...
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... word ? ) among your people—— " " Nay , I have never felt liberty to open my lips in meeting - I have no message ... words are always and absolutely true , whilst enough of his subterra- nean beneficence had worked to the surface to ...
... word ? ) among your people—— " " Nay , I have never felt liberty to open my lips in meeting - I have no message ... words are always and absolutely true , whilst enough of his subterra- nean beneficence had worked to the surface to ...
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... words as might be . The shipping clerks of my acquaintance are hard- worked folk , with little time to waste and ... word . I watched my name creep into being in this strange fash- ion ; then he looked up at me once more with that ...
... words as might be . The shipping clerks of my acquaintance are hard- worked folk , with little time to waste and ... word . I watched my name creep into being in this strange fash- ion ; then he looked up at me once more with that ...
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... words , which he whispered- " Joe Benson warn't alone at the mitch - board ! " " What do you mean , George ... word to haul the nets . I went to the wheel , but the wind held light , so I just put a turn round it , and went to ...
... words , which he whispered- " Joe Benson warn't alone at the mitch - board ! " " What do you mean , George ... word to haul the nets . I went to the wheel , but the wind held light , so I just put a turn round it , and went to ...
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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...