The Living Age, Volume 109E. Littell & Company, 1871 |
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... appeared some- would have been to address a limited where about 1803 , after his name had be- audience indeed , and what he had to come extensively known by the several say was meant for all . It was as an volumes in which he had just ...
... appeared some- would have been to address a limited where about 1803 , after his name had be- audience indeed , and what he had to come extensively known by the several say was meant for all . It was as an volumes in which he had just ...
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... appeared he was ly- ing dangerously ill at Stralsund , shot through the body in a duel with a Swedish officer whom he had called to account for language reflecting upon the people of Germany . Nor was this all he suffered in the cause ...
... appeared he was ly- ing dangerously ill at Stralsund , shot through the body in a duel with a Swedish officer whom he had called to account for language reflecting upon the people of Germany . Nor was this all he suffered in the cause ...
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... appeared smooth , was all broken and mottled with shadows innumerable . Again and again I found myself standing still to gaze in a rapture of delight which I can only recall , not express ; again and again was I roused by the voice of ...
... appeared smooth , was all broken and mottled with shadows innumerable . Again and again I found myself standing still to gaze in a rapture of delight which I can only recall , not express ; again and again was I roused by the voice of ...
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... appeared to tremble with unuttered thinkings . The manhood within me was alive and awake . I could not recognize a single landmark , or discover the least vestige of a path . I knew upon which hand the sun was when we started ; and took ...
... appeared to tremble with unuttered thinkings . The manhood within me was alive and awake . I could not recognize a single landmark , or discover the least vestige of a path . I knew upon which hand the sun was when we started ; and took ...
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... appeared less dread- ful . Then , in the horror of the slow death of hunger , strange as it may appear , that which had been the special horror of my childish dreams returned upon me changed into a thought of comfort : I could , ere my ...
... appeared less dread- ful . Then , in the horror of the slow death of hunger , strange as it may appear , that which had been the special horror of my childish dreams returned upon me changed into a thought of comfort : I could , ere my ...
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Page 210 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 369 - A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora.
Page 451 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Page 64 - In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight whence England bore the bell. Go to Paris; rank on rank Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank! You shall look long enough ere you come to Herve Riel.
Page 201 - he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 177 - And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 63 - Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this Formidable clear, Make the others follow mine, And I lead them, most and least, by a passage I know well...
Page 218 - Before his work be done; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But...
Page 326 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: ;"Tis clear...
Page 27 - I'll read, his for his love." XXXIII Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.