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... gives to what was done by Alexander Severus , according to the account of Lampridius in his life of that prince . In order to keep up the discipline and vigilance of the armies on the frontiers , against which the storms of barbarian ...
... gives to what was done by Alexander Severus , according to the account of Lampridius in his life of that prince . In order to keep up the discipline and vigilance of the armies on the frontiers , against which the storms of barbarian ...
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... give an outline of it . It seems that Reidmar , the hero of the piece , an elegant youth , an attendant at court , had , in early life , indulged in a voracious appetite for Romances and other wonderful narrations , until , like Don ...
... give an outline of it . It seems that Reidmar , the hero of the piece , an elegant youth , an attendant at court , had , in early life , indulged in a voracious appetite for Romances and other wonderful narrations , until , like Don ...
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... give notice of his presence , without interrupting , by a sud- den alarm , the calm which so gently and soothingly bespoke him ? - Above all , it would have distressed him to have called up , especially by his first appearance , perhaps ...
... give notice of his presence , without interrupting , by a sud- den alarm , the calm which so gently and soothingly bespoke him ? - Above all , it would have distressed him to have called up , especially by his first appearance , perhaps ...
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... give utterance to words , she yet beckoned smilingly to the heights , which the vassals of Douglas had just scaled . Reidmar , en- couraged , flew forwards . Above , he came across a thick wood . The fire , which continually passed on ...
... give utterance to words , she yet beckoned smilingly to the heights , which the vassals of Douglas had just scaled . Reidmar , en- couraged , flew forwards . Above , he came across a thick wood . The fire , which continually passed on ...
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... , in this case , in the thicket . As he was hastening about to give his followers fresh directions upon this VOL . III.—NO. 5 . 7 subject , the eldest of them said : Quite right 1829. ] 49 Romances of the Baron de la Motte Fouqué .
... , in this case , in the thicket . As he was hastening about to give his followers fresh directions upon this VOL . III.—NO. 5 . 7 subject , the eldest of them said : Quite right 1829. ] 49 Romances of the Baron de la Motte Fouqué .
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Page 371 - The lover wished that he could feel his longings and his joys so variedly and so harmoniously as the poet's inspired lips had skill to show them forth; and even the rich man could not of himself discern such costliness in his idol grandeurs, as when they were presented to him shining in the splendour of the poet's spirit, sensible to all worth, and exalting all.
Page 250 - ... again. The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey is its depopulation. Ruins, where villages had been built, and fallows where land had been cultivated, are frequently seen, with no living things near them. This effect is not so visible in larger towns, though the cause is known to operate there in a still greater degree. Within the last twenty years, Constantinople has lost more than half its population.
Page 373 - She skipped so sharply and surely along between the eggs, and trod so closely down beside them, that you would have thought every instant she must trample one of them in pieces, or kick the rest away in her rapid turns. By no means! She touched no one of them, though winding herself through their mazes with all kinds of steps, wide and narrow, nay even with leaps, and at last half kneeling.