The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 49Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1860 - American literature |
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... seen all sorts of " slimy things " crawl forth from the abyss , or , as Sir Rich- ard Hawkins relates , " the sea was so replenished with several sorts of gellyes , and forms of serpents , adders , and snakes as seemed wonderfull ; some ...
... seen all sorts of " slimy things " crawl forth from the abyss , or , as Sir Rich- ard Hawkins relates , " the sea was so replenished with several sorts of gellyes , and forms of serpents , adders , and snakes as seemed wonderfull ; some ...
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... seen that in an ocean of salt water a system of vertical circula- tion must prevail which could not obtain in an ocean of fresh ; for , as the surface layer is robbed by evaporation , and its density is consequently augmented , it must ...
... seen that in an ocean of salt water a system of vertical circula- tion must prevail which could not obtain in an ocean of fresh ; for , as the surface layer is robbed by evaporation , and its density is consequently augmented , it must ...
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... seen that mission- aries are subject to infirmities like other men . He is an honest Baptist , a frank Dissenter , and perhaps a little hard on Bishops ; not so much on the genus as a whole , as on that anomalous species of it , the ...
... seen that mission- aries are subject to infirmities like other men . He is an honest Baptist , a frank Dissenter , and perhaps a little hard on Bishops ; not so much on the genus as a whole , as on that anomalous species of it , the ...
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... seen him at Derby , when , in his letter home , he had said how useful " a serious printer would be . " William Ward had never forgotten the words Carey spoke to him , on a walk , before he started for India . He had become a popular ...
... seen him at Derby , when , in his letter home , he had said how useful " a serious printer would be . " William Ward had never forgotten the words Carey spoke to him , on a walk , before he started for India . He had become a popular ...
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... seen for a moment in its noblest attitude , and thenceforward transfigured by imagi- nation into all that virtue or ambition would set before itself . Now all these conditions , and many others hardly less essential , are fulfilled by ...
... seen for a moment in its noblest attitude , and thenceforward transfigured by imagi- nation into all that virtue or ambition would set before itself . Now all these conditions , and many others hardly less essential , are fulfilled by ...
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Page 34 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 32 - In love, if love be love, if love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. ' " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 57 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Page 35 - I wanted warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot — now I see thee what thou art, Thou art the highest and most human too, Not Lancelot, nor another. Is there none Will tell the King I love him tho
Page 480 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 36 - Let no man dream but that I love thee still. Perchance, and so thou purify thy soul, And so thou lean on our fair father Christ, Hereafter in that world where all are pure We two may meet before high God, and thou Wilt spring to me, and claim me thine, and know; I am thine husband — not a smaller soul, f Nor Lancelot, nor another. Leave me that, I charge thee, my last hope. Now must I hence. Thro...
Page 51 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 119 - Victoria, by the grace of God Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, saving as aforesaid.
Page 179 - And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
Page 127 - ... tide They fling their melancholy music wide; Bidding me many a tender thought recall Of summer days, and those delightful years When by my native streams, in life's fair prime, The mournful magic of their mingling chime First waked my wondering childhood into tears! But seeming now, when all those days are o'er, The sounds of joy once heard and heard no more.