Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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... soul to thoughts that matchless stand E ver sublime and beautiful and grand . HUBER . How keen thy vision , e'en though reft of sight ! U sing with double power the mind's clear light : B ees , and their hives , thy curious ken has ...
... soul to thoughts that matchless stand E ver sublime and beautiful and grand . HUBER . How keen thy vision , e'en though reft of sight ! U sing with double power the mind's clear light : B ees , and their hives , thy curious ken has ...
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... soul awakes : - Such was thy life - a poet's life , I ween ; Worshipper thou of Nature ! every scene Of beauty stirred thy fancy's deeper mood , Reflection calmed the current of thy blood : Thus in the wide " Excursion " of thy mind ...
... soul awakes : - Such was thy life - a poet's life , I ween ; Worshipper thou of Nature ! every scene Of beauty stirred thy fancy's deeper mood , Reflection calmed the current of thy blood : Thus in the wide " Excursion " of thy mind ...
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... soul : Nature looks shuddering back with conscious dread On such a tarnished blot as she has made . Let hell receive you , riveted in chains , Doomed to the hottest focus of its flames . * Tristram Shandy . ALLITERATIVE ACROSTIC . THE ...
... soul : Nature looks shuddering back with conscious dread On such a tarnished blot as she has made . Let hell receive you , riveted in chains , Doomed to the hottest focus of its flames . * Tristram Shandy . ALLITERATIVE ACROSTIC . THE ...
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... Soul - stirring STEPHENS ' skill , sure seraphs sing the same . CHRONOGRAMMATIC PASQUINADE . On the election of Pope Leo X. , in 1440 , the following sati- rical acrostic appeared , to mark the date MCCCCX L. Multi Cœci Cardinales ...
... Soul - stirring STEPHENS ' skill , sure seraphs sing the same . CHRONOGRAMMATIC PASQUINADE . On the election of Pope Leo X. , in 1440 , the following sati- rical acrostic appeared , to mark the date MCCCCX L. Multi Cœci Cardinales ...
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... soul with true It also teaches us To love each other with true And to pay to things sacred a just It instructs us how to keep To maintain And preserve Also , to whom it is due , To observe good And a commendable It likewise teaches us ...
... soul with true It also teaches us To love each other with true And to pay to things sacred a just It instructs us how to keep To maintain And preserve Also , to whom it is due , To observe good And a commendable It likewise teaches us ...
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