The Living Age, Volume 112E. Littell & Company, 1872 |
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... brought to my mind something of which I of Papists and all their practices , - could had read an account lately ; something not but be striking . It agrees with what produced , not in Bavaria nor in Christen- is seen also in literature ...
... brought to my mind something of which I of Papists and all their practices , - could had read an account lately ; something not but be striking . It agrees with what produced , not in Bavaria nor in Christen- is seen also in literature ...
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... brought to him by the governor ; but the governor is a descendant of one of the murderers of the Imam Hussein ; Tamer- lane is informed of it , loads him with reproaches , and drives him from his pres- ence . The emperor presently sees ...
... brought to him by the governor ; but the governor is a descendant of one of the murderers of the Imam Hussein ; Tamer- lane is informed of it , loads him with reproaches , and drives him from his pres- ence . The emperor presently sees ...
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... brought an empty water bottle , and thrown it , a silent token of distress , before the feet of Abbas , the uncle of Hussein ; Abbas had sallied out to cut his way to the river , and had been slain . Afterwards Ali - Akber , Hussein's ...
... brought an empty water bottle , and thrown it , a silent token of distress , before the feet of Abbas , the uncle of Hussein ; Abbas had sallied out to cut his way to the river , and had been slain . Afterwards Ali - Akber , Hussein's ...
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... brought out her smiles , and made sweet dimples play about her laughing mouth . Oh ! Philip will never give her up , " she almost groaned , in answer to another whisper from the widow . " Isn't she looking most lovely ? " ' Tis the foot ...
... brought out her smiles , and made sweet dimples play about her laughing mouth . Oh ! Philip will never give her up , " she almost groaned , in answer to another whisper from the widow . " Isn't she looking most lovely ? " ' Tis the foot ...
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... brought him close to the back of the cottage , a great portion of his an- ger had vanished , and had given place to a soreness which instead of urging him to angry upbraidings , prompted him to take the dear transgressor in his arms ...
... brought him close to the back of the cottage , a great portion of his an- ger had vanished , and had given place to a soreness which instead of urging him to angry upbraidings , prompted him to take the dear transgressor in his arms ...
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Page 71 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 141 - ... because he who has received this true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over, and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the reason of the thing ; and when reason comes he will recognize and salute her as a friend with whom his education has made him long familiar.
Page 286 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 75 - Their authors are of the same level, fit to represent them on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a beargarden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their stock of sense, (as they may by...
Page 50 - Free love — free field — we love but while we may: The woods are hush'd, their music is no more: The leaf is dead, the yearning past away: New leaf, new life — the days of frost are o'er: New life, new love to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love, — free field — we love but while we may.
Page 412 - He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Page 258 - Strange to think by the way, Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
Page 70 - Add that whate'er of terror or of love Or beauty, Nature's daily face put on From transitory passion, unto this I was as sensitive as waters are To the sky's influence in a kindred mood Of passion ; was obedient as a lute That waits upon the touches of the wind.
Page 381 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand ; "Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain. They call us' to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 411 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.