Littell's Living Age, Volume 192Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1892 |
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Page 43
... kind . The student of his poems will , I think , if he attends to the point , conclude that this fine natural organ had but little ear to guide it , and that music proper was to Byron not indeed wholly a blank , but a medium to which he ...
... kind . The student of his poems will , I think , if he attends to the point , conclude that this fine natural organ had but little ear to guide it , and that music proper was to Byron not indeed wholly a blank , but a medium to which he ...
Page 51
... kind , but it is an interest- ing document , and in the plaintiff's frank confession of his own iniquities there is even a touch of the sublime . Now listen to the news I have brought you after this long time . You know Gryllus , the ...
... kind , but it is an interest- ing document , and in the plaintiff's frank confession of his own iniquities there is even a touch of the sublime . Now listen to the news I have brought you after this long time . You know Gryllus , the ...
Page 62
... kind of vegetable octopus , or devil - fish , and is able to drain the blood of any living thing which comes within its clutches . We give the story with all reserve , but it must be admitted to be circumstantial enough in all its de ...
... kind of vegetable octopus , or devil - fish , and is able to drain the blood of any living thing which comes within its clutches . We give the story with all reserve , but it must be admitted to be circumstantial enough in all its de ...
Page 68
... kind of villany . In a rainless country like Egypt the existence of the people depends on irrigation , and to deprive a poor man of his water supply is equivalent to turning his fruitful field into a barren desert . By this deprivation ...
... kind of villany . In a rainless country like Egypt the existence of the people depends on irrigation , and to deprive a poor man of his water supply is equivalent to turning his fruitful field into a barren desert . By this deprivation ...
Page 75
... the strangling are the chief sufferers , there is a kind of grim justice here , which will set matters right after the first serious epi , demic . In the educational department an | wonders of THE EGYPTIANS AND THE OCCUPATION . 75.
... the strangling are the chief sufferers , there is a kind of grim justice here , which will set matters right after the first serious epi , demic . In the educational department an | wonders of THE EGYPTIANS AND THE OCCUPATION . 75.
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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.
Page 509 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend* to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of -dining. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit: Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right, to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold,...
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.