A Soldier's Recollections of the West Indies and America: With a Narrative of the Expedition to the Island of Walcheren, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1834 |
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Página 127 - even like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears, which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Página 363 - 11 ne'er be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick. If I be drunk, I '11 be drunk with
Página 213 - marble, a rocky tomb, as it were, of a former animated world; new generations rising, and order and harmony established, and a system of life and beauty produced, as it were, out of chaos and death, proving the infinite wisdom, power, and goodness, of the Great Cause of all
Página 197 - There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing. There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches:
Página iii - Twas strange: in youth, all action and all life, Burning for pleasure, not averse from strife. Woman —the Field —the Ocean — all that gave Promise of gladness — peril of a grave — In turn
Página 295 - who Had never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knew, More than a spinster—
Página 213 - twenty centuries, or the mutilated fragments of Greek sculpture, in the Acropolis of Athens, or in our own Museum, as proofs of the genius of artists, and the power and riches of nations now passed away ; with how much deeper feelings of admiration
Página 128 - For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you. saith the Lord.
Página 213 - away ; with how much deeper feelings of admiration must we consider those grand monuments of Nature which mark the revolutions of the globe; continents broken into islands ; one land produced, another destroyed ; the bottom of the ocean become
Página 130 - but still more direful he, The small, close lurking minister of fate, Whose high concocted venom through the veins A rapid lightning darts, arresting swift The vital current.