Littell's Living Age, Volume 117Living Age Company Incorporated, 1873 |
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... soon as it has been excavated terprises , we must not overlook the risk to a slight depth , wooden frames of a and toil by means of which they were strength in inverse proportion to the successful . Captain Warren and his as- self ...
... soon as it has been excavated terprises , we must not overlook the risk to a slight depth , wooden frames of a and toil by means of which they were strength in inverse proportion to the successful . Captain Warren and his as- self ...
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... soon wall where the stones were sticking out as he was down to a convenient depth he like teeth . At about 8 feet from the burrowed back to the wall , and then along ground one of these gave way , and he its face , so as to examine it ...
... soon wall where the stones were sticking out as he was down to a convenient depth he like teeth . At about 8 feet from the burrowed back to the wall , and then along ground one of these gave way , and he its face , so as to examine it ...
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... soon after the accident , and his brother had concealed the death that he might get the pay . Of course the small staff sent out from England could do no more than direct the various operations and keep account of them . Native labour ...
... soon after the accident , and his brother had concealed the death that he might get the pay . Of course the small staff sent out from England could do no more than direct the various operations and keep account of them . Native labour ...
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invitation , and the young men were soon rapidly borne along the Champs Elysées . As briefly as he could Alain described the state of his affairs , the nature of his mortgages , and the result of his interview with M. Gandrin . nation ...
invitation , and the young men were soon rapidly borne along the Champs Elysées . As briefly as he could Alain described the state of his affairs , the nature of his mortgages , and the result of his interview with M. Gandrin . nation ...
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... soon , " said the Parisian , " and we can est class ? " no " Getting drunk . " " Nothing else ? " - Lemercier seated himself on a bench " She will return this way beside the path , and invited Alain to do the same . observe her more ...
... soon , " said the Parisian , " and we can est class ? " no " Getting drunk . " " Nothing else ? " - Lemercier seated himself on a bench " She will return this way beside the path , and invited Alain to do the same . observe her more ...
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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 376 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
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...
Page 196 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th
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...