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... better than gold and honor , is fair maiden's love . And when the king's beautiful daughter smiled upon the gazing crowd around her , and when her sweet lips attered words of gentle en- treaty , the spell was woven , and the bold heart ...
... better than gold and honor , is fair maiden's love . And when the king's beautiful daughter smiled upon the gazing crowd around her , and when her sweet lips attered words of gentle en- treaty , the spell was woven , and the bold heart ...
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... better state of things . If it had been , we must consider him a man much infe- rior to what we have been accustomed to consider him ; for in that case , he has chosen means contrary to his ends . Was Napoleon a great statesman with ...
... better state of things . If it had been , we must consider him a man much infe- rior to what we have been accustomed to consider him ; for in that case , he has chosen means contrary to his ends . Was Napoleon a great statesman with ...
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... better ; but , —there Is virtue in an Aunt . THE HE title of this recently issued work is a text d - propos alike to a discus- sion of the life and fortunes of a great poet , and of a great poem . We desire to speak of both ; but what ...
... better ; but , —there Is virtue in an Aunt . THE HE title of this recently issued work is a text d - propos alike to a discus- sion of the life and fortunes of a great poet , and of a great poem . We desire to speak of both ; but what ...
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... better pass- port into heaven than the oath last upon his lips , I can promise him St. Peter will never grant him admittance . ] Having succeeded , as I trust , in ferret- ing out the cause of the dire effects about which I complain ...
... better pass- port into heaven than the oath last upon his lips , I can promise him St. Peter will never grant him admittance . ] Having succeeded , as I trust , in ferret- ing out the cause of the dire effects about which I complain ...
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... better master than Abdallah . Here Abdallah dwelt year after year . No one shared his enjoyments save his daughter Zuleika , and she only when he was away . There was not much happi- ness in the house where Abdallah was , he was so ...
... better master than Abdallah . Here Abdallah dwelt year after year . No one shared his enjoyments save his daughter Zuleika , and she only when he was away . There was not much happi- ness in the house where Abdallah was , he was so ...
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Page 296 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 283 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 467 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath ; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 280 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 10 - His way is in the sea, and His path in the great waters, and His footsteps are not known.
Page 343 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 561 - I was anxiously looking around for the river, one of them called out, geo affili (see the water), and looking forwards, I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.
Page 298 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 571 - Modest and shy as a nun is she ; One weak chirp is her only note. Braggart and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; Never was I afraid of man; Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can ! Chee, chee, chee.
Page 120 - THE splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.