Littell's Living Age, Volume 192Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1892 |
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Page 71
... head and shoulders above us . means of governing the country . True to their character of independence and de ... heads of de- partments appealed to all the better feel- ings of their Egyptian fellow - workers . In spite of the fact that ...
... head and shoulders above us . means of governing the country . True to their character of independence and de ... heads of de- partments appealed to all the better feel- ings of their Egyptian fellow - workers . In spite of the fact that ...
Page 82
... head , from which it stood up straight . A grey moustache , almost white , covered his upper lip . The complexion was pale , almost sallow , the face thin . The nose , slightly arched , seemed to hint at Jewish origin . The lips were ...
... head , from which it stood up straight . A grey moustache , almost white , covered his upper lip . The complexion was pale , almost sallow , the face thin . The nose , slightly arched , seemed to hint at Jewish origin . The lips were ...
Page 85
... head . Then one could see his face , a comforta- ble face , stout and hearty , with rather a flat , large nose and bright , twinkling eyes , yet a face that looked as though it had known sorrow as well as happiness . For a moment or two ...
... head . Then one could see his face , a comforta- ble face , stout and hearty , with rather a flat , large nose and bright , twinkling eyes , yet a face that looked as though it had known sorrow as well as happiness . For a moment or two ...
Page 96
... head in place " of the travel - stained one he had worn be- fore . A pair of bright yellow slippers completed his change . " My Cairo Hadj must be a rich man to wear clothes like that . " The other took no notice of this remark , but ...
... head in place " of the travel - stained one he had worn be- fore . A pair of bright yellow slippers completed his change . " My Cairo Hadj must be a rich man to wear clothes like that . " The other took no notice of this remark , but ...
Page 103
... head of rebel myr was born . tally murdered , his body being absolutely perforated with pike. Love always . E. F. " In reading , " says Moore , " these sim- ple and , to an almost feminine degree , fond letters , it is impossible not to ...
... head of rebel myr was born . tally murdered , his body being absolutely perforated with pike. Love always . E. F. " In reading , " says Moore , " these sim- ple and , to an almost feminine degree , fond letters , it is impossible not to ...
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Page 509 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Page 509 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 510 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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Page 443 - Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Page 345 - For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Page 435 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms.
Page 436 - I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Page 444 - Though the waters thereof rage and swell : and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.
Page 142 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.