Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 3Knight, 1824 |
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... round me makes me sad at heart . True it is that God hath restored to us our old laws , and the rightful line of our kings . Yet , how I know not , but it seems to me that something is wanting that our court hath not the old gravity ...
... round me makes me sad at heart . True it is that God hath restored to us our old laws , and the rightful line of our kings . Yet , how I know not , but it seems to me that something is wanting that our court hath not the old gravity ...
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... round the benches , searching for those whose blood he desired , and singling out his opposers to the slaughter . This most foul outrage fails . Then again for the old arts . come gracious messages . Then come courteous speeches . is ...
... round the benches , searching for those whose blood he desired , and singling out his opposers to the slaughter . This most foul outrage fails . Then again for the old arts . come gracious messages . Then come courteous speeches . is ...
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... round the lunar world , carry them into the presence of their king . Endymion was engaged in a war with Phaethon , the sovereign of the Sun , in consequence of an attempt to colonize the Morning Star . The strangers attend him into the ...
... round the lunar world , carry them into the presence of their king . Endymion was engaged in a war with Phaethon , the sovereign of the Sun , in consequence of an attempt to colonize the Morning Star . The strangers attend him into the ...
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... 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 they sacrificed upon the monster , and buried ...
... 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 they sacrificed upon the monster , and buried ...
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... round the vessel , and they live for thirty days in a cave in the ice , and subsist upon the fish which they dig up . Afterwards they meet , not indeed with " seas of milk and ships of amber , " but with seas of milk and islands of ...
... round the vessel , and they live for thirty days in a cave in the ice , and subsist upon the fish which they dig up . Afterwards they meet , not indeed with " seas of milk and ships of amber , " but with seas of milk and islands of ...
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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...