Littell's Living Age, Volume 23Living Age Company Incorporated, 1849 |
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... scarcely beyond the bounds of human credulity , and were by not a few received as true accounts of true voyages . Indeed , it might have been thought to require some hardihood to distrust even the immortal Captain , seeing that his ...
... scarcely beyond the bounds of human credulity , and were by not a few received as true accounts of true voyages . Indeed , it might have been thought to require some hardihood to distrust even the immortal Captain , seeing that his ...
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... scarcely knew what to observe , and certainly has not turned the rare advantages com- mitted to him to all the account of which they would have been susceptible in the hands of a more literate traveller . Oh , that Dr. Robinson or Eli ...
... scarcely knew what to observe , and certainly has not turned the rare advantages com- mitted to him to all the account of which they would have been susceptible in the hands of a more literate traveller . Oh , that Dr. Robinson or Eli ...
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... scarcely worth while to multi- ply instances of what almost every recent traveller has noticed . One instance is sufficient and con- clusive , which is , that wild bucks were more then once seen floating at their sase on the surface of ...
... scarcely worth while to multi- ply instances of what almost every recent traveller has noticed . One instance is sufficient and con- clusive , which is , that wild bucks were more then once seen floating at their sase on the surface of ...
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... scarcely anything is said ; and we are quite dis- tressed to say that the commander does not seem to have been at all aware that it was an object of interest to ascertain whether the river from Has- beiya , which , as the remoter source ...
... scarcely anything is said ; and we are quite dis- tressed to say that the commander does not seem to have been at all aware that it was an object of interest to ascertain whether the river from Has- beiya , which , as the remoter source ...
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... scarcely bring forth fruit to part of Palestine . As to the pillar of salt into which Lot's wife. Apocrypha , than we are in the region of exag- geration and tradition . The author of the Wis- dom of Solomon , speaking of the cities of ...
... scarcely bring forth fruit to part of Palestine . As to the pillar of salt into which Lot's wife. Apocrypha , than we are in the region of exag- geration and tradition . The author of the Wis- dom of Solomon , speaking of the cities of ...
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Page 371 - 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 398 - 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 393 - 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 371 - 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 399 - 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 378 - 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 399 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 139 - 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 378 - 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 398 - 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...