The Metropolitan, Volume 36James Cochrane, 1843 |
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... Round thee endless blessing pour ! Lengthen'd life devoid of care ! Love unmix'd with base alloy ! Fresh increase each coming year Of every bright unfading joy ! Far from thee may gods divine Time's corroding finger cast ! Youth and ...
... Round thee endless blessing pour ! Lengthen'd life devoid of care ! Love unmix'd with base alloy ! Fresh increase each coming year Of every bright unfading joy ! Far from thee may gods divine Time's corroding finger cast ! Youth and ...
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... round with a self satisfied air of unbounding confidence . The un- happy parents , in the midst of the indignation they naturally felt at the ill - timed folly of the Brahmin , obtained from it , however , a clue which they fondly hoped ...
... round with a self satisfied air of unbounding confidence . The un- happy parents , in the midst of the indignation they naturally felt at the ill - timed folly of the Brahmin , obtained from it , however , a clue which they fondly hoped ...
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... round Lankadwipa , or as the mo- derns style it , Serindib ? " " They do so , " said the Rajah . " " Do not the treasures of that country , " continued the Brahmin , " chiefly consist in its pearl fisheries ? " " Most unquestionably ...
... round Lankadwipa , or as the mo- derns style it , Serindib ? " " They do so , " said the Rajah . " " Do not the treasures of that country , " continued the Brahmin , " chiefly consist in its pearl fisheries ? " " Most unquestionably ...
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... round stern as travellers will meet , among the strange things they see between London and Vienna . The first post ends at Zeil , a village below the castle of Fragen- stein , and surrounded by the Solstein Alp , whose higher peak is ...
... round stern as travellers will meet , among the strange things they see between London and Vienna . The first post ends at Zeil , a village below the castle of Fragen- stein , and surrounded by the Solstein Alp , whose higher peak is ...
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... round old rotten tower ( ruin of the castle of Klam ) is seen emerging from a hollow filled with woods below the road , towards the river . The look back , with the wood and castle below you in the foreground , presented a striking ...
... round old rotten tower ( ruin of the castle of Klam ) is seen emerging from a hollow filled with woods below the road , towards the river . The look back , with the wood and castle below you in the foreground , presented a striking ...
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Page 319 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Page 80 - ... when such a man would speak, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Page 54 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 254 - twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it : that song to-night Will not go from my mind ; I have much to do, But to go hang my head all at one side, And sing it like poor Barbara.
Page 320 - The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her. She will do him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.
Page 7 - that the Christian religion should become universal amongst us. I look at the wisdom of these worshippers of Jehovah, and see how superior they are to us in every respect. Their ships are like floating houses, so that they can traverse the tempest-driven ocean for months with perfect safety...
Page 318 - There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
Page 101 - On these thy spirit loved to dwell Untainted by the world's control. My brother, those were happy days When thou and I were children yet ; How fondly memory still surveys Those scenes the heart can ne'er forget...
Page 319 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and...