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... least one hundred and fifty miles from us . ' If this estimated distance be correct , the perpendicular height of this mountain above the place where it was first seen , must have been at least 15,000 feet ; and if to this the elevation ...
... least one hundred and fifty miles from us . ' If this estimated distance be correct , the perpendicular height of this mountain above the place where it was first seen , must have been at least 15,000 feet ; and if to this the elevation ...
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... least of the external senses , during which time be has the most vivid confidence that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if that , indeed , can be called composition in which all the images rose up ...
... least of the external senses , during which time be has the most vivid confidence that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if that , indeed , can be called composition in which all the images rose up ...
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... least as sensible as his readers can be , that he has no claim to any personal merit from such a compilation . He has arrived at that period of life , when the humblest sphere of usefulness should he more interesting than any degree of ...
... least as sensible as his readers can be , that he has no claim to any personal merit from such a compilation . He has arrived at that period of life , when the humblest sphere of usefulness should he more interesting than any degree of ...
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... least grain fall upon the earth . ' " The Egyptians , the Assyrians , the Babylonians , and the Romans , by each of whom the Jews were at different periods subjugated or enslaved , have all , in their turn , long ceased to exist as ...
... least grain fall upon the earth . ' " The Egyptians , the Assyrians , the Babylonians , and the Romans , by each of whom the Jews were at different periods subjugated or enslaved , have all , in their turn , long ceased to exist as ...
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... least , from the faith which the fullest evidence had before assured them to be true . We do not pretend to excuse the enormity of those offences against which the displeasure of Heaven has been so clearly expressed ; we wish only to ...
... least , from the faith which the fullest evidence had before assured them to be true . We do not pretend to excuse the enormity of those offences against which the displeasure of Heaven has been so clearly expressed ; we wish only to ...
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Page 23 - mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Page 22 - The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines...
Page 19 - The night is chill; the forest bare; Is it the wind that moaneth bleak? There is not wind enough in the air To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheek There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 24 - But yester-night I prayed aloud In anguish and in agony, Up-starting from the fiendish crowd Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me : A lurid light, a trampling throng, Sense of intolerable wrong, And whom I scorned, those only strong!
Page 20 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 286 - Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
Page 358 - Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended ; Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded : Faster come, faster come, Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page, and groom, Tenant and master.
Page 20 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 20 - tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other ; ' To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty At each wild word to feel within A sweet recoil of love and pity.
Page 22 - A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head; Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye...