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... called him Pesce - Colo , Nick the fish , for he lived in the ocean's depths , and days and nights passed , which he spent swimming and diving in the warm waters of Sicily . And from the very cliff on which the king had spoken his ...
... called him Pesce - Colo , Nick the fish , for he lived in the ocean's depths , and days and nights passed , which he spent swimming and diving in the warm waters of Sicily . And from the very cliff on which the king had spoken his ...
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... called Sargossa Sea , between the Azores and the Antilles , is a huge floating gar- den , stretching , with a varying width of one to three hundred miles , over twenty- five degrees of latitude , so that Colum- bus spent three hopeless ...
... called Sargossa Sea , between the Azores and the Antilles , is a huge floating gar- den , stretching , with a varying width of one to three hundred miles , over twenty- five degrees of latitude , so that Colum- bus spent three hopeless ...
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... called Joseph , Thou , in the old republican style ; he spoke freely of Napoleon , and the courtesy of Joseph , sometimes as it seemed to us , fairly tried , appeared most charming . When , that evening , we bade Joseph good night , he ...
... called Joseph , Thou , in the old republican style ; he spoke freely of Napoleon , and the courtesy of Joseph , sometimes as it seemed to us , fairly tried , appeared most charming . When , that evening , we bade Joseph good night , he ...
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... called ; his early manhood , when his ideas became , to use one of his own favorite expressions , bien arrêté , and " his soul ripened , " fell in a period at which popular absolutism was revelling in anarchy ; all his instincts were ...
... called ; his early manhood , when his ideas became , to use one of his own favorite expressions , bien arrêté , and " his soul ripened , " fell in a period at which popular absolutism was revelling in anarchy ; all his instincts were ...
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... called by the foreign enemies and men of a superficial mind , the impe- rial despotism . That Napoleon had well understood the national will , is suffi- ciently proved to posterity by his mira- culous return from Elba . But the En ...
... called by the foreign enemies and men of a superficial mind , the impe- rial despotism . That Napoleon had well understood the national will , is suffi- ciently proved to posterity by his mira- culous return from Elba . But the En ...
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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.