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... turn the cur- rent of my thoughts , and tranquillize the painful irritation of my brain . The church of St. Roch was open and illu- minated with unusual splendor ; I pass- ed in ; and , hiring one of the little chairs , of which there ...
... turn the cur- rent of my thoughts , and tranquillize the painful irritation of my brain . The church of St. Roch was open and illu- minated with unusual splendor ; I pass- ed in ; and , hiring one of the little chairs , of which there ...
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... turn , is confined for life by his son in a dilapidated part of the castle - and is discovered by St. Clair , the friend of Victor - to whom the guilty father tells his tale of assassination and remorse .-- The retribution of divine ...
... turn , is confined for life by his son in a dilapidated part of the castle - and is discovered by St. Clair , the friend of Victor - to whom the guilty father tells his tale of assassination and remorse .-- The retribution of divine ...
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... turn ? ------ Such moments are sad and the lightning which flies , Or , the thunder that rolls ' midst the storm of the skies , Hath no shaft so terrific , -- no wound can im- part , Like that , which their agony rends in the heart ...
... turn ? ------ Such moments are sad and the lightning which flies , Or , the thunder that rolls ' midst the storm of the skies , Hath no shaft so terrific , -- no wound can im- part , Like that , which their agony rends in the heart ...
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... turn the joke against his adversary . Napoleon was exceedingly attached to Talma , and appointed him his reader . We are happy in being able on the present occasion to subjoin an extract from Lady Morgan's forth - coming work , further ...
... turn the joke against his adversary . Napoleon was exceedingly attached to Talma , and appointed him his reader . We are happy in being able on the present occasion to subjoin an extract from Lady Morgan's forth - coming work , further ...
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... turn . Thus sung the young minstrel , while eve's breezes blew , And millions of stars slow emerg'd from the sky ; For beauty he sang , and the love - meed he drew , A sigh from her bosom , a tear from her eye . July 1817 . From the ...
... turn . Thus sung the young minstrel , while eve's breezes blew , And millions of stars slow emerg'd from the sky ; For beauty he sang , and the love - meed he drew , A sigh from her bosom , a tear from her eye . July 1817 . From the ...
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Página 273 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Página 54 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 54 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 322 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse ; and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him : And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Página 273 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten,...
Página 78 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Página 273 - Indited under the influence of HIM, to whom all hearts are known,. and all events foreknown, they suit mankind in all situations ; grateful as the manna which descended from above, and conformed itself to every palate.
Página 322 - And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Página 322 - And there went out another horse that was red : and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another : and there was given unto him a great sword.
Página 416 - His hand guides the plough, and the plough his thoughts, and his ditch and land-mark is the very mound of his meditations. He expostulates with his oxen very understandingly, and speaks gee and ree better than English. His mind is not much distracted with objects ; but if a good fat cow come in his way, he stands dumb and astonished, and though his haste be never so great, will fix here half an hour's contemplation.