Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 3Knight, 1824 |
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... head . Farther inland are seen ruinous castles and towers perched upon almost inaccessible peaks , among beautiful forests of chestnut - trees and wild solitary glens . More to the South , the rich plains of Campania and of Apulia ; the ...
... head . Farther inland are seen ruinous castles and towers perched upon almost inaccessible peaks , among beautiful forests of chestnut - trees and wild solitary glens . More to the South , the rich plains of Campania and of Apulia ; the ...
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... head of a king was the head of a traitor . There stands Westminster Hall , which who can look upon , and not tremble to think how time , and change , and death , confound the counsels of the wise , and beat down the weapons of the ...
... head of a king was the head of a traitor . There stands Westminster Hall , which who can look upon , and not tremble to think how time , and change , and death , confound the counsels of the wise , and beat down the weapons of the ...
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... heads Do grow beneath their shoulders . The demands of Lucian upon the faith of his readers are very small ; for he concludes his preface with the grave assurance , " I write , therefore , about things which I neither saw , nor suf ...
... heads Do grow beneath their shoulders . The demands of Lucian upon the faith of his readers are very small ; for he concludes his preface with the grave assurance , " I write , therefore , about things which I neither saw , nor suf ...
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... heads covered instead of hair with tendrils , leaves , and clusters . After a misadventure which makes them return hastily to their ship , they set sail , and are attacked by a storm still more terrible than the former , for they are ...
... heads covered instead of hair with tendrils , leaves , and clusters . After a misadventure which makes them return hastily to their ship , they set sail , and are attacked by a storm still more terrible than the former , for they are ...
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... head of the monster . And that night they lodged round about the beast , having made fast their halsers to him , and lying at anchor close by him ; for they use anchors also of great size and strength , made of glass . And the next day ...
... head of the monster . And that night they lodged round about the beast , having made fast their halsers to him , and lying at anchor close by him ; for they use anchors also of great size and strength , made of glass . And the next day ...
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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...