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... never - ending sound of joy that echoes through the streets of the French metropolis , may pleasingly contrast with the commercial solemnity which pervades her ; but she alone has achieved that imperial crown which cities like her only ...
... never - ending sound of joy that echoes through the streets of the French metropolis , may pleasingly contrast with the commercial solemnity which pervades her ; but she alone has achieved that imperial crown which cities like her only ...
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... never see a shiner ; he owes me for five weeks rent . ' ' I wish I could get my bottles back , ' says the man of cham- pagne . I'll never get my clothes , ' says the man of measures . ' It's no use standing no nonsense , ' says he of ...
... never see a shiner ; he owes me for five weeks rent . ' ' I wish I could get my bottles back , ' says the man of cham- pagne . I'll never get my clothes , ' says the man of measures . ' It's no use standing no nonsense , ' says he of ...
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... never at home till they get abroad , the sons of New - England have also been rather curious . ' They have spread out to the north , to the east , to the west , and to the far west , and sent school - masters , as well as pedlars , to ...
... never at home till they get abroad , the sons of New - England have also been rather curious . ' They have spread out to the north , to the east , to the west , and to the far west , and sent school - masters , as well as pedlars , to ...
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... never com- plained of obscurity . But , ' replied I , we live in a distant age , and speak a different language ; in order , therefore , to see and feel the beauties of your writings , much explanation is necessary . ' pos- ' As to ...
... never com- plained of obscurity . But , ' replied I , we live in a distant age , and speak a different language ; in order , therefore , to see and feel the beauties of your writings , much explanation is necessary . ' pos- ' As to ...
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... Never had he been more entirely confounded : ' My teacher asks me , why should I learn it ! How strange ! ' Such were his thoughts , as he returned to his studies . In a few days he called again . He seemed not to know how to begin the ...
... Never had he been more entirely confounded : ' My teacher asks me , why should I learn it ! How strange ! ' Such were his thoughts , as he returned to his studies . In a few days he called again . He seemed not to know how to begin the ...
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Page 383 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 152 - 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. A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell...
Page 333 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 86 - I forty stripes save one; thrice was I beaten with rods; once was I stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeying often; in perils of waters; in perils of robbers; in perils by mine own countrymen; in perils by the heathen; in perils in the city; in perils in the wilderness; in perils in the sea; in perils among false brethren...
Page 87 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Page 495 - In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things.
Page 335 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God...
Page 88 - For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 334 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 331 - And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!