Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 3Knight, 1824 |
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... hand that you must not expect more than one meal a day . this moving bastile , the unfortunate , inquisitive , splenetie , and simple travellers are all brought into close contact with each other ; acquaintances are made , stories told ...
... hand that you must not expect more than one meal a day . this moving bastile , the unfortunate , inquisitive , splenetie , and simple travellers are all brought into close contact with each other ; acquaintances are made , stories told ...
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... hand , was a sturdy Protestant , and , as such , imbibed with no small share of dislike , bordering upon con- tempt , for all the essentials as well as the appendages of Catholicism . There is a sneer at times hovering upon his ...
... hand , was a sturdy Protestant , and , as such , imbibed with no small share of dislike , bordering upon con- tempt , for all the essentials as well as the appendages of Catholicism . There is a sneer at times hovering upon his ...
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... hand and the Bible in the other , amidst the roaring of the guns and the shouting of the people . And yet again a little while , and the doors are thronged with mul- titudes in black , and the hearse and the plumes come forth ; and the ...
... hand and the Bible in the other , amidst the roaring of the guns and the shouting of the people . And yet again a little while , and the doors are thronged with mul- titudes in black , and the hearse and the plumes come forth ; and the ...
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... hand . Nor must states refrain from defending themselves , lest their defenders should at last turn against them . Nevertheless , against this danger statesmen should 1 carefully provide ; and , that they may do touching the Great Civil ...
... hand . Nor must states refrain from defending themselves , lest their defenders should at last turn against them . Nevertheless , against this danger statesmen should 1 carefully provide ; and , that they may do touching the Great Civil ...
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... hands of men who were not of themselves . Hence , doubtless , derived no small honour to that noble assembly , which sacrificed to the hope of public good the assurance of private advantage . And , as to the conduct of the war , the ...
... hands of men who were not of themselves . Hence , doubtless , derived no small honour to that noble assembly , which sacrificed to the hope of public good the assurance of private advantage . And , as to the conduct of the war , the ...
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Page 38 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 191 - Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side? Wouldst thou me? — And I replied, No, not thee! Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon — Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night— Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!
Page 83 - Sorrow is knowledge : they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
Page 189 - SWIFT as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory and of good, the sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his splendour, and the mask Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth. The smokeless altars of the mountain snows Flamed above crimson clouds, and at the birth Of light, the Ocean's orison arose, To which the birds tempered their matin lay.
Page 86 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare : Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way : O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of Love.
Page 190 - I PANT for the music which is divine, My heart in its thirst is a dying flower; Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine, Loosen the notes in a silver shower; Like a herbless plain, for the gentle rain, I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.
Page 190 - SWIFTLY walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night ! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, — Swift be thy flight...
Page 191 - The breath of the moist earth is light, Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's.
Page 39 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 304 - ... to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple, and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts...