Littell's Living Age, Volume 117Living Age Company Incorporated, 1873 |
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bian side of the gulf , eight miles below the town , are some pools which have been dug in the sand , lying now amid palm - trees and gardens . It is probable that water may have been always procur- upwards of two miles long , and half ...
bian side of the gulf , eight miles below the town , are some pools which have been dug in the sand , lying now amid palm - trees and gardens . It is probable that water may have been always procur- upwards of two miles long , and half ...
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... sides of both are circular indents facing each other , and so forming an am- phitheatre capable of containing an im- mense concourse of people . Here stood , six tribes on one side and six on the other , the children of Israel to hear ...
... sides of both are circular indents facing each other , and so forming an am- phitheatre capable of containing an im- mense concourse of people . Here stood , six tribes on one side and six on the other , the children of Israel to hear ...
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... side to side , and touching the sides of the well . I suddenly heard the people from the top shouting to tell me that I had reached the bottom , so when I begun to move I found myself lying on my back at the bottom of the well ; looking ...
... side to side , and touching the sides of the well . I suddenly heard the people from the top shouting to tell me that I had reached the bottom , so when I begun to move I found myself lying on my back at the bottom of the well ; looking ...
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... side of a natural valley of Joshua ; it is the same En - Rogel by or an artificial ditch extended . Proba- which Ahimaaz and Jonathan * the son bly the two containing valleys of Mount of Abiathar waited on David's behalf for Moriah ...
... side of a natural valley of Joshua ; it is the same En - Rogel by or an artificial ditch extended . Proba- which Ahimaaz and Jonathan * the son bly the two containing valleys of Mount of Abiathar waited on David's behalf for Moriah ...
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... side only of the shaft , then by some dire calamity befalling the coun- to fix the half of the frame , and after- try . " From functionaries with minds wards to excavate the other side and fix thus cultivated much sympathy or aid the ...
... side only of the shaft , then by some dire calamity befalling the coun- to fix the half of the frame , and after- try . " From functionaries with minds wards to excavate the other side and fix thus cultivated much sympathy or aid the ...
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Page 199 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Page 199 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery...
Page 427 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
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Page 198 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
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Page 251 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 194 - Trompington I laughed with Chaucer in the hawthorn shade ; Heard him, while birds were warbling, tell his tales Of amorous passion. And that gentle Bard, Chosen by the Muses for their Page of State — Sweet Spenser, moving through his clouded heaven With the moon's beauty and the moon's soft pace, I called him Brother, Englishman, and Friend ! Yea, our blind Poet, who in his later day, Stood almost single ; uttering odious truth...
Page 348 - Was roofed with clouds of rich emblazonry Dark purple at the zenith, which still grew Down the steep West into a wondrous hue Brighter than burning gold, even to the rent Where the swift sun yet paused in his descent Among the many-folded hills : they were Those famous Euganean hills, which bear, As seen from Lido thro...