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... common mother , the great ocean . How quietly , how silently nature works in her great household . Unheard and unseen , these enormous masses of water rise up from the broad seas of the earth , and yet it requires not less than one ...
... common mother , the great ocean . How quietly , how silently nature works in her great household . Unheard and unseen , these enormous masses of water rise up from the broad seas of the earth , and yet it requires not less than one ...
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... common fish , when it pleased his Japanese majesty to order a fish din- ner at his house in the depth of winter , when all fish leave the coasts of his country . Now singly , now in shoals , fish are constantly seen moving through the ...
... common fish , when it pleased his Japanese majesty to order a fish din- ner at his house in the depth of winter , when all fish leave the coasts of his country . Now singly , now in shoals , fish are constantly seen moving through the ...
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... common men . Dur- ing his closing illness he directs General Bertrand to advise , in his name , the members of his family to settle chiefly in Rome , where their children ought to be married to the princely families of the Colonnas ...
... common men . Dur- ing his closing illness he directs General Bertrand to advise , in his name , the members of his family to settle chiefly in Rome , where their children ought to be married to the princely families of the Colonnas ...
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... common dinner conversation with an officer is almost sure to bring it out . It was so at the time of Napoleon , and has ever since been so . The complaints of the arrogance of the army were universal in the reign of Napoleon . It had ...
... common dinner conversation with an officer is almost sure to bring it out . It was so at the time of Napoleon , and has ever since been so . The complaints of the arrogance of the army were universal in the reign of Napoleon . It had ...
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... common consent of mankind declared essential to the discipline of all poets , inasmuch as nothing less grievous is supposed to induce that desperate state of mind in which successful poets are popu- larly believed to write successful ...
... common consent of mankind declared essential to the discipline of all poets , inasmuch as nothing less grievous is supposed to induce that desperate state of mind in which successful poets are popu- larly believed to write successful ...
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Page 468 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? . . . When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 574 - White are his shoulders and white his crest. Hear him call in his merry note: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink ; Look, what a nice new coat is mine, Sure there was never a bird so fine. Chee, chee, chee. Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife, Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings, Passing at home a patient life, Broods in the grass while her husband sings : Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink ; Brood, kind creature; you need not fear Thieves and robbers while I am here. Chee,...
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 575 - Soon as the little ones chip the shell, Six wide mouths are open for food; Robert of Lincoln bestirs him well, Gathering seeds for the hungry brood. Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; This new life is likely to be Hard for a gay young fellow like me. Chee, chee, chee.
Page 575 - 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 565 - 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 469 - 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 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 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 wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 121 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.