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... portion of this work has long been written - the notes , here digested and compiled , having been taken during visits to the Peninsula previous to the death of Ferdinand , but at seasons of great national commotion and of civil war . It ...
... portion of this work has long been written - the notes , here digested and compiled , having been taken during visits to the Peninsula previous to the death of Ferdinand , but at seasons of great national commotion and of civil war . It ...
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... portion of her buried gold . It is no sin to seek a Moira ; and in return for her imagined kind- ness and protecting care , and as if in sorrow for their fathers ' cruel in- juries against her Moorish ancestors , the peasantry atone for ...
... portion of her buried gold . It is no sin to seek a Moira ; and in return for her imagined kind- ness and protecting care , and as if in sorrow for their fathers ' cruel in- juries against her Moorish ancestors , the peasantry atone for ...
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... portion of the population which adhered enthusiastically to his cause ; he would enrich with his spoils the most de- voted of his subjects ; and it was said , that in some instances , where an attached couple , belonging to families ...
... portion of the population which adhered enthusiastically to his cause ; he would enrich with his spoils the most de- voted of his subjects ; and it was said , that in some instances , where an attached couple , belonging to families ...
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... portion of that grasping and philosophic power , which deals with particulars with the ease and confidence of a master - genius , and which finds every event and discovery naturally assume an illustrative position , by taking its ...
... portion of that grasping and philosophic power , which deals with particulars with the ease and confidence of a master - genius , and which finds every event and discovery naturally assume an illustrative position , by taking its ...
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... portion of the author's incompleted History of Europe since the End of the Fifteenth Century ; and certainly a more diversified field and noble theme was never presented to the philosophic histo- rian than the period in England's career ...
... portion of the author's incompleted History of Europe since the End of the Fifteenth Century ; and certainly a more diversified field and noble theme was never presented to the philosophic histo- rian than the period in England's career ...
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Página 243 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Página 262 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Página 293 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was; man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Página 245 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty : Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Página 74 - ... the caverns of the deep. Silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end. What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the...
Página 562 - ... but it was not to be found. In his distress he looked down for it ; it was to be seen no more than to be felt. He stood confounded, and I took possession of his place ; nor did he ever recover it, or ever, I believe, suspect who was the author of his wrong. Often in after-life has the sight of him smote me as I passed by him ; and often have I resolved to make him some reparation ; but it ended in good resolutions.
Página 560 - I last night supped in Mr Walter Scott's. He has the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw. He was reading a poem to his mother when I went in. I made him read on : it was the description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with the storm. He lifted his eyes and hands. 'There's the mast gone,' says he; 'crash it goes ! — they will all perish ! ' After his agitation, he turns to me. 'That is too melancholy,' says he; 'I had better read you something more amusing.
Página 74 - There was no trace by which the name of the ship could be ascertained. The wreck had evidently drifted about for many months ; clusters of shell-fish had fastened about it, and long sea-weeds flaunted at its sides. But where, thought I, is the crew ? Their struggle has long been over — they have gone down amidst the roar of the tempest — their bones lie whitening among the caverns of the deep ; silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end.
Página 560 - He has the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw. He was reading a poem to his mother when I went in. I made him read on; it was the description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with the storm. He lifted his eyes and hands. ' There's the mast gone,' says he ; * crash it goes! — they will all perish!' After his agitation, he turns to me. ' That is too melancholy,' says he; ' I had better read you something more amusing.
Página 574 - ... house did not observe with perfect equanimity the novel usage to which her chintz was exposed. The Shepherd, however, remarked nothing of all this — dined heartily and drank freely, and, by jest, anecdote, and song, afforded plentiful merriment to the more civilized part of the company. As the liquor operated, his familiarity increased and strengthened ; from ' Mr. Scott,' he advanced to ' Sherra,' and thence to ' Scott,' 'Walter,' and 'Wattie,' — until, at supper, he [fairly convulsed the...