The Living Age, Volume 213E. Littell & Company, 1897 |
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... less the sultan by his misconduct has forfeited his right to rule . Autonomy , too , being announced for Crete , and not by his authority but by theirs , Crete being thus derelict in point of lawful sovereignty , does all reversionary ...
... less the sultan by his misconduct has forfeited his right to rule . Autonomy , too , being announced for Crete , and not by his authority but by theirs , Crete being thus derelict in point of lawful sovereignty , does all reversionary ...
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... less with the muddy river gurgling against her bows . It was too hot to play cards in the smoking - room ; the heat and the mosquitoes made sleep in our stifling , cockroach - haunted berths out of the question ; and we sat on deck ...
... less with the muddy river gurgling against her bows . It was too hot to play cards in the smoking - room ; the heat and the mosquitoes made sleep in our stifling , cockroach - haunted berths out of the question ; and we sat on deck ...
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... less convincing . And even when the familiar features of some man or woman have been moulded correctly , how little one cares , how futile it all seems ! The figures are animated with no spark of life's sem- blance . Made in man's image ...
... less convincing . And even when the familiar features of some man or woman have been moulded correctly , how little one cares , how futile it all seems ! The figures are animated with no spark of life's sem- blance . Made in man's image ...
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... less settled than India , and the government being extremely short- handed , an immense amount of various kinds of work falls upon each single English official . Hence it is wholly im- possible for him to exercise any close or detailed ...
... less settled than India , and the government being extremely short- handed , an immense amount of various kinds of work falls upon each single English official . Hence it is wholly im- possible for him to exercise any close or detailed ...
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... less dreaded - seemed to ville's mate . cargo . " They will be less trouble than the empty casks , at all events , " said Conyngham . " because they will keep below . " The sailor shook his head forebod- 1 Copyright , 1896 , by Henry ...
... less dreaded - seemed to ville's mate . cargo . " They will be less trouble than the empty casks , at all events , " said Conyngham . " because they will keep below . " The sailor shook his head forebod- 1 Copyright , 1896 , by Henry ...
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Page 283 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Page 293 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
Page 205 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 291 - To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Page 291 - IN a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime.
Page 269 - Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterwards that which is spiritual.
Page 542 - Corydon would kiss her then,. She said, maids must kiss no men, Till they did for good and all ; Then she made the shepherd- call • All the heavens to witness truth Never loved a truer youth. Thus with many a pretty oath, Yea and nay, and faith and troth, Such as...
Page 205 - Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood, If ever she leave Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.
Page 227 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 93 - Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.