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... wall , or sank upon the steps . She did get up at last , and stood before the open door . The children were gone ! Her hope revived : they had been found and saved . But how should she know where to look for them ? " A woman , who lived ...
... wall , or sank upon the steps . She did get up at last , and stood before the open door . The children were gone ! Her hope revived : they had been found and saved . But how should she know where to look for them ? " A woman , who lived ...
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... walls , and adorns their nakedness with its broad , grey - green leaves . Amid the ruin heaps , the ass strays , and finds among the laurels many a dainty thistle . From that spot , in the old times , Rome's imperial eagles flew ; now ...
... walls , and adorns their nakedness with its broad , grey - green leaves . Amid the ruin heaps , the ass strays , and finds among the laurels many a dainty thistle . From that spot , in the old times , Rome's imperial eagles flew ; now ...
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... walls remain . The dark cypress points with its long shadows to the place where the throne stood . Instead of the decorated floor , the earth now lies in broken and uneven heaps . The little girl , the daughter of Rome's imperial palace ...
... walls remain . The dark cypress points with its long shadows to the place where the throne stood . Instead of the decorated floor , the earth now lies in broken and uneven heaps . The little girl , the daughter of Rome's imperial palace ...
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... walls , and of a broken capital ; the many - coloured lizard slipped by at her feet , quickly and coyly ; but she did not start from it . " She lifted her hand to pull the bell string at the door , that her grandmother might open to her ...
... walls , and of a broken capital ; the many - coloured lizard slipped by at her feet , quickly and coyly ; but she did not start from it . " She lifted her hand to pull the bell string at the door , that her grandmother might open to her ...
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... walls which surrounded Babylon , sixty miles in measure , were completed . These walls were so thick that six chariots might drive on them abreast . Looking down in another spot , I saw other workmen working in other fashion . They were ...
... walls which surrounded Babylon , sixty miles in measure , were completed . These walls were so thick that six chariots might drive on them abreast . Looking down in another spot , I saw other workmen working in other fashion . They were ...
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Abyssinian Aden amid amongst ants archbishop ARCHBISHOP USSHER babes basaltic beams beautiful Bedouin bees British Captain Douglas Graham carried Cevennes colony courtiers cried dance delight Dezima distress Dutch Eaia earth Efat embassy empire EMPIRE OF JAPAN Ethiopia flowers friends Galla garden gazed Greenland ground habitations Hawash heard Heer Blomhoff hillock hills honey hope insect Japan kind king kingdom labours lady land length light listened lived looked majesty Major Harris matchlocks Mikado Moon continued MOON'S ACCOUNT mother moun mountain Nagasaki Nebuchadnezzar never night nurse observed Opperhoofd palace parents party PEEP perceived Pharas poor Pradines present river rock Sahela Selasse seen ship Shoa shore side silver Sir John Aubrey skin song soon sovereign spoke squirrels stood tains tell things thought throne Tiber took town trees versts village walls wept whilst wild wish woman wood young
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Página 61 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!
Página 59 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Página 172 - ... there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching Reformation, others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Página 172 - Behold now this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers working, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...
Página 171 - Ireland than for this ; saying to his daughter, and those that endeavoured to comfort him, ' I know that it is God's hand, and I must endeavour to bear it patiently ; though I have too much human frailty not to be extremely concerned; for I am touched in a very tender place, and he has thought fit to take from me at once all that I have been gathering together above these twenty years, and which I intended to publish for the advancement of learning, and the good of the church.
Página 81 - SIR — I am directed to inform you that the Honourable the Governor in Council, having formed a very high estimate of your talents and acquirements, and of the spirit of enterprise and decision, united with...
Página 137 - My children," said His Majesty in a sepulchral voice, as he extended his burning hand towards his European visiters — "behold, I am sore stricken. Last night they believed me dead, and the voice of mourning had arisen within the palace walls, but God hath spared me until now. Tell me the medicine for this disease.
Página 118 - ... shows the powerful effect of the presents on the courtly sensibilities. The speech was as follows: — "Forty years have rolled away since Asfa Woosen, on whose memory be peace! grandsire to our beloved monarch, saw in a dream that the red men were bringing into his kingdom, curious and beautiful commodities from countries beyond the great sea. The astrologers, on being commanded to give an interpretation thereof, predicted with one accord, that foreigners from the land of Egypt would come into...
Página 139 - I will release them,' returned the monarch, after a moment's debate within himself. 'By the Holy Eucharist I swear, and by the Church of the Holy Trinity in Koora Gadel, that if Sahela...
Página 113 - ... white calicoes, Indian piece goods, Indian prints, silks, and shawls, red cotton yarn, silk threads, beads, frankincense, copper wire, and zinc. A fortnight rolled away painfully in this detestable place, which was named Alio Amba, when a summons came from the monarch in these formal words : — " Tarry not by day, neither stay ye by night ; for the heart of the father longeth to see his children, and let him not be disappointed.