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12 vols Account ALEXANDER Ancient Antiquities Architecture Atlas Australia Bishop Book Born British Museum Camb Captain Catalogue Century CHARLES Chemistry Christ Church Collection Colonies continued Correspondence Court Curante A. J. Valpy DAVID Description Dictionary Died Dublin Earl Edin EDWARD English Engravings Essays feet Folio France French Geology GEORGE Glas Grammar Greek Hadrian's Villa HENRY Henry VIII Hesiod Illustrations inches India Ireland J. O. Halliwell J. P. Collier JAMES JOHN JOSEPH Journal King Language Leips Letters Lond London Lord Manual Maps Mary Melb Melbourne Memoirs Miscellaneous Narrative Natural History Notes Original Oxford Pamphlets Paris Parliament Phillip Philosophy Poems Port Phillip Professor Queen Reign Reports RICHARD Right ROBERT Roman Rome Royal SAMUEL Scotland Sculptor Sculptor Height Serials Weale Sketches Smith Society South Australia South Wales Statistical Sydney Tasmania Taylor Temple THOMAS Translated Travels Treatise Trustees Van Diemen's Land Victoria Voyage WILLIAM York Zealand
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Page 18 - gleam appcar'd, Bending to look on me : I started back. It started back ; but pleased I soon return'd, Pleased it return'd as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love. There I had fix'd Mine eyes till now, and pin'd with vain desire, Had not a voice thus warn'd me: What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair
Page 26 - and turn away, and know not where, Dazzled and drunk with beauty, till the heart Keels with its fulness ; there—for ever there— Chain'd to the chariot of triumphal art, We stand as captives, and would not depart. Away! there need no words, nor terms precise, The paltry jargon of the marble mart, Where pedantry
Page 307 - (LAURENCE). 2. History of England, from Henry VIII. to George I. 1. The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumn of 1852 ; with a Voyage down the Volga, and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks. 8vo, 1 vol. Lond., 1854. 2. The Trans-Caucasian Campaign
Page 21 - lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother—he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday— All this rushed with his blood —Shall he expire And unavenged ?—Arise, ye
Page 18 - thyself; With thee it came and goes: but follow me. And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces, be Whose image thou art: him them shall enjoy Inseparably thine, to him shall
Page 18 - soon return'd, Pleased it return'd as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love. There I had fix'd Mine eyes till now, and pin'd with vain desire, Had not a voice thus warn'd me: What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature,
Page 24 - Or, turning to the Vatican, go see Laocoon's torture dignifying pain— A father's love and mortal's agony With an immortal's patience blending: vain The struggle ; vain, against the coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp. The old man's clench ; the long-envenom'd chain Rivets the living links—the enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.
Page 512 - 1843. WIGRAM (JAMES). 1. Examination of the Rules of Law, respecting the Admission of Extrinsic Evidence in Aid of the Interpretation of Wills. 3rd Ed. 8vo, 1 vol. Lond., 1840. 2. Points in the Law of Discovery. 2nd Ed. 8vo, 1 vol. Lond., 1840.
Page 303 - 11. Historic Peerage of England, exhibiting under Alphabetical Arrangement the Origin, Descent, and Present State of every Title of Peerage which has existed in this Country since the Conquest. Edited by W. Courthope. 8vo, 1 vol.
Page 26 - Idalian Aphrodite beautiful, Fresh as the foam new bathed in Paphian wells, With rosy slender fingers backward drew, From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair Ambrosial, golden round her lucid throat And shoulder ; from the violets her light foot Shone rosy-white, and o'er her rounded form, Between the shadows of the vine-bunches, Floated the glowing sunlights, as she moved.