The South-western Monthly, Volume 1Wales & Roberts, 1852 |
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... once ; and yonder , having been built in the year 998 , and an further up , is the Hotel de Ville ; and awful celebrity attaches to its name , here the Palace of the Institute . We second to no other building in the city . look in the ...
... once ; and yonder , having been built in the year 998 , and an further up , is the Hotel de Ville ; and awful celebrity attaches to its name , here the Palace of the Institute . We second to no other building in the city . look in the ...
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... once surmounted by the celebrated bronze horses of St. Mark , removed by command of the Allies , at their occu- pation of Paris . They are replaced by four others , by a modern artist . We have a fine view of this front of the palace if ...
... once surmounted by the celebrated bronze horses of St. Mark , removed by command of the Allies , at their occu- pation of Paris . They are replaced by four others , by a modern artist . We have a fine view of this front of the palace if ...
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... once regarded with such mysterious vulsed Europe . The subtle Talleyrand , awe by the world of mankind . But the wily Fouche , the politic Camba- where now is " the Divinity that doth céres , Ney , Murat , Macdonald , Da- hedge a king ...
... once regarded with such mysterious vulsed Europe . The subtle Talleyrand , awe by the world of mankind . But the wily Fouche , the politic Camba- where now is " the Divinity that doth céres , Ney , Murat , Macdonald , Da- hedge a king ...
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... once And as we retrace our course more to the city , as the ear catches anew the murmur of its crowded streets , the roll of its equipages , the music of its trumpets and drums , and the hum of its gay saloons , even the quiet heart ac ...
... once And as we retrace our course more to the city , as the ear catches anew the murmur of its crowded streets , the roll of its equipages , the music of its trumpets and drums , and the hum of its gay saloons , even the quiet heart ac ...
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... once more started for it at the top of my speed . When I got to it , I found two or three young men there ; and hearing my story , they immediately dashed off with their dogs after the fellow ; but he outran them , or I have no doubt he ...
... once more started for it at the top of my speed . When I got to it , I found two or three young men there ; and hearing my story , they immediately dashed off with their dogs after the fellow ; but he outran them , or I have no doubt he ...
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Page 165 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 24 - That as the creative state of the eye increased, a sympathy seemed to arise between the waking and the dreaming states of the brain in one point— that whatsoever I happened to call up and to trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams...
Page 177 - I attended to, while in this school; but there was one thing I could not do. I could not make a declamation. I could not speak before the school. The kind and excellent Buckminster sought, especially, to persuade me to perform the exercise of declamation, like other boys ; but I could not do...
Page 300 - And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain.
Page 353 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie...
Page 353 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Page 98 - Of cither's garden; and together read Of him, the master of the desert isle, Till a low hut, a gun, and a canoe, Bounded their wishes. Or if ever came A thought of future days, 'twas but to say That they would share each other's lot, and do Wonders, no doubt. But this was vain: they parted With promises of long remembrance, words Whose kindness was the heart's, and those warm tears, Hidden like shame by the young eyes which shed them, But which are thought upon in after years As what we would give...
Page 358 - The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an
Page 353 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand...
Page 37 - ... light of the sun darted into the cavern, and the Seven Sleepers were permitted to awake. After a slumber as they thought of a few hours, they were pressed by the calls of hunger ; and resolved that Jamblichus, one of their number, should secretly return to the city to purchase bread for the use of his companions. The youth, if we may still employ that appellation, could...