Littell's Living Age, Volume 23 |
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All the most remark- in which we live will be looked back upon by our able creatures of the world have been brought to children's children as more replete with wonders us from the uttermost parts of the earth ; and than any which the ...
All the most remark- in which we live will be looked back upon by our able creatures of the world have been brought to children's children as more replete with wonders us from the uttermost parts of the earth ; and than any which the ...
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Shall any of us live to tread again bly subjected . ' Besides these few men , Lieuten- her clean familiar deck ? What matters it ! We ant Dale and Midshipman Aulick were attached to are in the hands of God , and , fall early or fall ...
Shall any of us live to tread again bly subjected . ' Besides these few men , Lieuten- her clean familiar deck ? What matters it ! We ant Dale and Midshipman Aulick were attached to are in the hands of God , and , fall early or fall ...
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The bottom of this sea con - pressive subjection by about one third of the numsists of two submerged plains , an elevated and a ber of Moslem Arabs , who live mostly in tents depressed one ; the last averaging thirteen , the foroutside ...
The bottom of this sea con - pressive subjection by about one third of the numsists of two submerged plains , an elevated and a ber of Moslem Arabs , who live mostly in tents depressed one ; the last averaging thirteen , the foroutside ...
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... when she is able to forget herself and as long as you have your German and your music to live entirely in others . ' Why am I not thus ?, it's nothing to you that your mother has to wait I can be , and by God's help I will be .
... when she is able to forget herself and as long as you have your German and your music to live entirely in others . ' Why am I not thus ?, it's nothing to you that your mother has to wait I can be , and by God's help I will be .
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He pushed his plate from him , saying , gle of a naturally liberal disposition , compelled to in a kind of finale tone of intense disgust , “ A live and make live upon insufficient means , was wretched breakfast , indeed !
He pushed his plate from him , saying , gle of a naturally liberal disposition , compelled to in a kind of finale tone of intense disgust , “ A live and make live upon insufficient means , was wretched breakfast , indeed !
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Page 383 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 410 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 405 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 383 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 411 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Page 390 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 411 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 157 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 390 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 410 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...