Littell's Living Age, Volume 52Living Age Company Incorporated, 1857 |
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... side of the town , where the soil is clay , and the surface covered with little shallow pools of water , with pretty water - plants and quantities of wading birds , I saw the most magnificent bird I ever beheld ; he must be the king ...
... side of the town , where the soil is clay , and the surface covered with little shallow pools of water , with pretty water - plants and quantities of wading birds , I saw the most magnificent bird I ever beheld ; he must be the king ...
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... side of miraculous of such a country , while all the nations images and winking pictures , and cures by round them are struggling for the means of relics , we know no facts recorded of any existence , is a national sin , because a na ...
... side of miraculous of such a country , while all the nations images and winking pictures , and cures by round them are struggling for the means of relics , we know no facts recorded of any existence , is a national sin , because a na ...
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... side , Alone this October night , Tracing a backward journey By memory's pale moonlight , Looking through Life's long vista To its hours of golden sands , And counting the years on my fingers Since my youth and I shook hands Till bright ...
... side , Alone this October night , Tracing a backward journey By memory's pale moonlight , Looking through Life's long vista To its hours of golden sands , And counting the years on my fingers Since my youth and I shook hands Till bright ...
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... side ; and as that lies down the Clyde from Glasgow , when a Glasgow man means to tell us that his family and himself are enjoying the fresh breezes and the glorious scenery of the Frith of Clyde , he says they are Down the Water . From ...
... side ; and as that lies down the Clyde from Glasgow , when a Glasgow man means to tell us that his family and himself are enjoying the fresh breezes and the glorious scenery of the Frith of Clyde , he says they are Down the Water . From ...
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... side every night . This im- plies a journey of from sixty to eighty miles daily ; but the rapidity and cheapness of the communication render the journey a com- paratively easy one . Still it occupies three or four hours of the day ; and ...
... side every night . This im- plies a journey of from sixty to eighty miles daily ; but the rapidity and cheapness of the communication render the journey a com- paratively easy one . Still it occupies three or four hours of the day ; and ...
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Agnes Arctic asked Atheling beautiful boat called Captain Charlie child church Countess Countess of Somerset court Danby dark death Ebionites England English eyes face father feel France French give Glasgow Glencore Gospel Gospel of Thomas Greenock hand heard heart Herat Holly Bank honor hope India Irenæus kind King knew lady land letters living look Lord Louis Marian marriage Mary matter means Melville Island ment miles mind Miss Montaigne morning mother nature never night northwest passage once Overbury passed Persian person Perthes Pivardière poor present Rabelais remarkable Rochdale round seems seen ship Sir Thomas Monson sledge smile Somerset spirit stood tell thing thought tion told took turned Uncle walk wife wind Winterbourne woman words writing young
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Página 323 - And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates ; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Página 228 - She dares go alone and unfold sheep in the night, and fears no manner of ill, because she means none : yet to say truth, she is never alone, for she is still accompanied with old songs, honest thoughts, and prayers, but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy, in that they are not palled with ensuing idle cogitations.
Página 440 - And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles...
Página 328 - ... accident, the idiot continued to strike and count the hour without the help of it, in the same manner as he had done when it was entire. Though I dare not vouch for the truth of this story, it is very certain that custom has a mechanical effect upon the body at the same time that it has a very extraordinary influence upon the mind.
Página 375 - E'en from thyself, thy loathsome heart to hide {The mansion then no more of joy serene), Where fear, distrust, malevolence, ahide, And impotent desire, and disappointed pride? O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields...
Página 249 - em, how I pities them Unhappy folks on shore now! " Foolhardy chaps who live in towns, What danger they are all in, And now lie quaking in their beds, For fear the roof should fall in; Poor creatures! how they envies us, And wishes, I've a notion, For our good luck, in such a storm, To be upon the ocean!
Página 220 - This said, he wished to have jue in his sight Once, as a friend; this fixed a day in spring To come and touch my hand ... a simple thing, Yet I wept for it; this . . . the paper's light . . . Said, Dear, I love thee; and I sank and quailed As if God's future thundered on my past. This said, I am thine...
Página 375 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven...
Página 340 - And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them : and they were sore afraid.
Página 224 - I said to those who heard me first in America, — " O brothers, speaking the same dear mother tongue; O comrades, enemies no more, let us take a mournful hand together as we stand by this royal corpse, and call a truce to battle! Low he lies to whom the proudest used to kneel once, and who was cast lower than the poorest: dead, whom millions prayed for in vain. Driven off his throne; buffeted by rude hands; with his children in revolt; the darling of his old age killed before him untimely; our Lear...