The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 6Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1867 - American literature |
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... whole month . That very day found Beaufort on his road to the metropolis , where he lost no time in finding out the General , to whom he now , for the first time , confided the events recorded above . " Well , you are a pretty sort of a ...
... whole month . That very day found Beaufort on his road to the metropolis , where he lost no time in finding out the General , to whom he now , for the first time , confided the events recorded above . " Well , you are a pretty sort of a ...
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... whole atten- tion of Cornwall was absorbed by mining and smelting , and when smelting - houses were most likely the only large buildings that seemed to deserve the name of houses , there is nothing extraordinary in tshey or dzhyi , even ...
... whole atten- tion of Cornwall was absorbed by mining and smelting , and when smelting - houses were most likely the only large buildings that seemed to deserve the name of houses , there is nothing extraordinary in tshey or dzhyi , even ...
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... whole police arrangements of the kingdom ; and fortunately finding in Nicolas de la Reynie an honest and intel- ligent man , of whom St. Simon says , " he managed to win the esteem of every- body in a place where he was above all men ...
... whole police arrangements of the kingdom ; and fortunately finding in Nicolas de la Reynie an honest and intel- ligent man , of whom St. Simon says , " he managed to win the esteem of every- body in a place where he was above all men ...
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... whole , the arguments for importation prevailed , and the committees bought their supplies in the cheapest markets . Before the beginning of August the whole talent and energy of the govern- ing body had gravitated towards the work of ...
... whole , the arguments for importation prevailed , and the committees bought their supplies in the cheapest markets . Before the beginning of August the whole talent and energy of the govern- ing body had gravitated towards the work of ...
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... whole of Bishenpore . " As the traveler entered the town , he passed through a belt of ground whitened with skulls . Macaulay relates , that after the carnage of Aghrim , the dogs acquired such a taste for human flesh that they fell ...
... whole of Bishenpore . " As the traveler entered the town , he passed through a belt of ground whitened with skulls . Macaulay relates , that after the carnage of Aghrim , the dogs acquired such a taste for human flesh that they fell ...
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Page 93 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 194 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 412 - Like a tale of little meaning .though the words are strong; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil...
Page 265 - Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily: "What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "I heard the water lapping on the crag , And the long ripple washing in the reeds.
Page 2 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 156 - I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware!
Page 102 - Receive them free, and sell them by the weight; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated, And of a carat of this quantity, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity...
Page 421 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 104 - To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world: or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: — 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay...
Page 110 - Phlegra with the heroic race were joined That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabia.