The Living Age, Volume 198E. Littell & Company, 1893 |
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... picture on which their eyes rested — number of the leaders in the rebellion , the deserted redoubt facing them on among whom Te Kooti was the most the top of the cliff over against the important and dangerous , were ban- anchorage , the ...
... picture on which their eyes rested — number of the leaders in the rebellion , the deserted redoubt facing them on among whom Te Kooti was the most the top of the cliff over against the important and dangerous , were ban- anchorage , the ...
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... pictures framed in foliage of the ex- pansive bay on our left , whose waters , The main object of my visit to the Chatham Islands was to search their geologically recent sand - hills in quest of remains of ancient bird forms of ...
... pictures framed in foliage of the ex- pansive bay on our left , whose waters , The main object of my visit to the Chatham Islands was to search their geologically recent sand - hills in quest of remains of ancient bird forms of ...
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... pictures of unwonted beauty which from time to time I caught in the island in hurrying from hunting- ground to hunting - ground , but which , though ever bright and vivid to myself , I can scarcely hope to describe in words which will ...
... pictures of unwonted beauty which from time to time I caught in the island in hurrying from hunting- ground to hunting - ground , but which , though ever bright and vivid to myself , I can scarcely hope to describe in words which will ...
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... picture of her features . And , thirdly , poets whose impulse is simply to paint the features of nature in every detail of their beauty , using the human story merely as an artistic raison d'être for an objective representation of ...
... picture of her features . And , thirdly , poets whose impulse is simply to paint the features of nature in every detail of their beauty , using the human story merely as an artistic raison d'être for an objective representation of ...
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... pictures - though of all English poets he is the most purely artistic , and cares not from what source he draws his ... picture . Had the trees and rivers he loved , the daisies that made his heart leap like a child's whenever he looked ...
... pictures - though of all English poets he is the most purely artistic , and cares not from what source he draws his ... picture . Had the trees and rivers he loved , the daisies that made his heart leap like a child's whenever he looked ...
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Página 486 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 183 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Página 34 - THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn.
Página 429 - FAIR daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again.
Página 376 - Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, bough, cradle, and all.
Página 33 - All these he saw; but what he fain had seen He could not see, the kindly human face, Nor ever hear a kindly voice, but heard The myriad shriek of wheeling ocean-fowl, The league-long roller thundering on the reef, The moving whisper of huge trees that branch'd And blossom'd in the zenith, or the sweep Of some precipitous rivulet to the wave...
Página 34 - A hundred hills their dusky backs upheaved All over this still ocean; and beyond, Far, far beyond, the solid vapours stretched, In headlands, tongues, and promontory shapes...
Página 42 - Fall, as the crest of some slow-arching wave Heard in dead night along that tableshore Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves Far over sands marbled with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing...
Página 365 - O world, as God has made it! All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty.
Página 582 - And who is the worse for that?" BOSWELL. "It hurts people of weaker nerves." JOHNSON. "I know no such weak-nerved people." Mr. Burke, to whom I related this conference, said, "It is well, if when a man comes to die, he has nothing heavier upon his conscience than having been a little rough in conversation.