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Travel where you will , of stating the question as regards the past hisyou will see , you can see , nothing to astonish— tory of the Dead Sea horrors , and of showing nothing more wonderful than that which you have what has been really ...
Travel where you will , of stating the question as regards the past hisyou will see , you can see , nothing to astonish— tory of the Dead Sea horrors , and of showing nothing more wonderful than that which you have what has been really ...
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But since ever , turns out to be no other than the dense mist Seetzen and Irby and Mangles , there has been no from the active evaporation going on upon the question that the renowned “ Apple of Sodom ” is surface , which often ...
But since ever , turns out to be no other than the dense mist Seetzen and Irby and Mangles , there has been no from the active evaporation going on upon the question that the renowned “ Apple of Sodom ” is surface , which often ...
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That reserve ; and we remember that this portion of his this pillar , or any like it , is or was that into book had a run through the press in the United which Lot's wife was turned , is another question , States , having been ...
That reserve ; and we remember that this portion of his this pillar , or any like it , is or was that into book had a run through the press in the United which Lot's wife was turned , is another question , States , having been ...
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She fidence of a true friendship , wherein falsehood is asked herself the question , “ how ? " and the sub- impossible and disguise absurd - distrust him ! lime of thought instantly became the ridiculous of Either consciously or ...
She fidence of a true friendship , wherein falsehood is asked herself the question , “ how ? " and the sub- impossible and disguise absurd - distrust him ! lime of thought instantly became the ridiculous of Either consciously or ...
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The apartment in question had been that ever was born , always supposing she is de - a mere closet , but was now the prettiest in the vicvoted to him . " arage , with its delicately - tinted walls and white “ Without either refinement ...
The apartment in question had been that ever was born , always supposing she is de - a mere closet , but was now the prettiest in the vicvoted to him . " arage , with its delicately - tinted walls and white “ Without either refinement ...
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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...