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... seemed to vanish , when compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from him on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed . They recognised no title to superiority but his favour ; and , confident of that favour ...
... seemed to vanish , when compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from him on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed . They recognised no title to superiority but his favour ; and , confident of that favour ...
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... seemed as if the elements , mankind , and nature herself , had wasted their energies , and yielded to the necessity of repose . .1 At about half - past seven , a distant but loud crash proclaimed some new disaster , and awakened to a ...
... seemed as if the elements , mankind , and nature herself , had wasted their energies , and yielded to the necessity of repose . .1 At about half - past seven , a distant but loud crash proclaimed some new disaster , and awakened to a ...
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... seemed to lament it much ; and it instantly brought into my mind Sancho's lamentations for his ; but he did it with more touches of nature . The mourner was sitting upon a stone bench at the door , with the ass's pannier and its bridle ...
... seemed to lament it much ; and it instantly brought into my mind Sancho's lamentations for his ; but he did it with more touches of nature . The mourner was sitting upon a stone bench at the door , with the ass's pannier and its bridle ...
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... remained of it - might be about seventy -but from his eyes , and that sort of fire which was in them , which seemed more tempered by courtesy 1 than years , could be no more than sixty - MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS . 95 Sterne,
... remained of it - might be about seventy -but from his eyes , and that sort of fire which was in them , which seemed more tempered by courtesy 1 than years , could be no more than sixty - MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS . 95 Sterne,
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... seemed to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time , agreed to the account . It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted -- mild , pale , penetrating ; free from all com- mon - place ideas of fat , contented ...
... seemed to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time , agreed to the account . It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted -- mild , pale , penetrating ; free from all com- mon - place ideas of fat , contented ...
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Seite 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Seite 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Seite 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Seite 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Seite 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Seite 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Seite 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Seite 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Seite 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Seite 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...