New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 119E. W. Allen, 1860 |
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Page 45
... lived within . The outer walls seemed as if about to fall ; while the main carriage entrance was covered with dust , the door itself being apparently rotten , and much in need of fresh painting . Therefore , to know the true ...
... lived within . The outer walls seemed as if about to fall ; while the main carriage entrance was covered with dust , the door itself being apparently rotten , and much in need of fresh painting . Therefore , to know the true ...
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... lived ; it is soon discovered when nibbling at the public good . The colonial wine - grower cannot be much longer obstructed by excise laws made to protect foreign brandies with a miserable view to the profit arising from the customs ...
... lived ; it is soon discovered when nibbling at the public good . The colonial wine - grower cannot be much longer obstructed by excise laws made to protect foreign brandies with a miserable view to the profit arising from the customs ...
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... lived in especial dread of a too curious ques- tioning . At Lisbon , two thousand converts were , upon a mere sus- picion , destroyed in three days , and delivered up to the flames . The Inquisition was never in want of victims with the ...
... lived in especial dread of a too curious ques- tioning . At Lisbon , two thousand converts were , upon a mere sus- picion , destroyed in three days , and delivered up to the flames . The Inquisition was never in want of victims with the ...
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... lived privileges , but he expelled the Jews from his states . The severity of this bull was considerably modified by timely pecuniary concessions , but Gregory XIII . -he who struck a medal in honour of St. Bartholomew's - eve - once ...
... lived privileges , but he expelled the Jews from his states . The severity of this bull was considerably modified by timely pecuniary concessions , but Gregory XIII . -he who struck a medal in honour of St. Bartholomew's - eve - once ...
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... lived , before the Revolution . The charter of Louis XVIII . extended , however , its protection to the liberty of worship , only the consistories were to be salaried by the state . But while usurers were pursued with all the rigours of ...
... lived , before the Revolution . The charter of Louis XVIII . extended , however , its protection to the liberty of worship , only the consistories were to be salaried by the state . But while usurers were pursued with all the rigours of ...
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Page 39 - Into a Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown Long after, now unpeopled and untrod.
Page 158 - And she hath watched Many a nightingale perch giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton song Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head.
Page 153 - But first, and chiefest, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song...
Page 157 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme...
Page 74 - Ye woodlands all , awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds ! sweet Philomela , charm The listening shades, and teach the night his praise.
Page 310 - How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea ; For then sweet dreams of other days arise, And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee. And, as I watch the line of light, that plays Along the smooth wave tow'rd the burning west, I long to tread that golden path of rays, And think 'twould lead to some bright isle of rest.
Page 78 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
Page 72 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 157 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes; As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 68 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.