Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 7 |
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... turned out , would have been the safer . The night was coming on , a storm was raging , and the wind was dead against them , so that the boats Dunois had brought to receive the supplies bade fair to be of little use . However , the maid ...
... turned out , would have been the safer . The night was coming on , a storm was raging , and the wind was dead against them , so that the boats Dunois had brought to receive the supplies bade fair to be of little use . However , the maid ...
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... turned , that a crowd of strangers hastened to the city to witness the solemnity about to take place , while a great number of men - at- arms came to offer their services to the king . Before the coronation , Charles received knighthood ...
... turned , that a crowd of strangers hastened to the city to witness the solemnity about to take place , while a great number of men - at- arms came to offer their services to the king . Before the coronation , Charles received knighthood ...
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... turned . More- over , they thought that if they could brand her as a sorceress , the stigma would cling to Charles VII . and his partisans , whom she had so much assisted ; and that thus discredited in popular opinion , even those most ...
... turned . More- over , they thought that if they could brand her as a sorceress , the stigma would cling to Charles VII . and his partisans , whom she had so much assisted ; and that thus discredited in popular opinion , even those most ...
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... turned the balance so effectually against the English , that in a few years they were , with trifling exceptions , stripped of all their French possessions . Although Charles was thus successful in the restoration of the French monarchy ...
... turned the balance so effectually against the English , that in a few years they were , with trifling exceptions , stripped of all their French possessions . Although Charles was thus successful in the restoration of the French monarchy ...
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... his beloved Agnes , or from the expenses necessarily attending the ceremony , or from any other cause , it turned out that , on the morning immediately after the marriage , they were without the means of purchasing a 18 ANNALS OF THE POOR .
... his beloved Agnes , or from the expenses necessarily attending the ceremony , or from any other cause , it turned out that , on the morning immediately after the marriage , they were without the means of purchasing a 18 ANNALS OF THE POOR .
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abby ancient Mariner animal appeared arms army arrived became Bishop of Beauvais body brother Canoona carried Castlehill Catherine Charles Adams child command continental system Cossacks daughter dear death deserted diggings Domremy duty elephant enemy English eyes father fear feeling feet fire formed France French girl gold hand heard heart hope horse husband Joan Joan of Arc Joan's John of Luxemburg keddah kind king labour lady lived looked maid Mary means miles morning Moscow mother Napoleon neighbours never night once Orleans parents party passed person poor proboscis promise quartz reached received regiment remained Reston retreat returned Rheims river rocks round Russian scene seemed ship Smolensk soldiers spirit spot stood sufferings tears thought thousand took town trunk village Vilno Vitebsk whole wife wild woman wounded Yeniseisk young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 9 - They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.
Página 12 - Is it he? quoth one, 'Is this the man? By Him who died on cross, With his cruel bow he laid full low The harmless Albatross! 'The Spirit who bideth by himself In the land of mist and snow, He loved the bird that loved the man Who shot him with his bow.
Página 8 - I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky, Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet.
Página 8 - In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still sojourn yet still move onward ; and everywhere the blue sky belongs to them, and is their appointed rest, and their native country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival.
Página 10 - The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between.
Página 14 - On every corse there stood. This seraph-band, each waved his hand: It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light; 441 This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart — No voice; but oh!
Página 13 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Página 14 - This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart — No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart. But soon I heard the dash of oars, I heard the Pilot's cheer; My head was turned perforce away And I saw a boat appear.
Página 10 - Around, around, flew each sweet sound, Then darted to the Sun; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning!
Página 5 - A Spirit had followed them; one of the invisible inhabitants of this planet, neither departed souls nor angels; concerning whom the learned Jew, Josephus, and the Platonic Constantinopolitan, Michael Psellus, may be consulted. They are very numerous, and there is no climate or element without one or more.