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... voice murmuring " Adam , " and sees them circling a tree despoiled of leafage , and takes note of a benediction on " Gryphon , † whose beak hath never pluck'd that tree Pleasant to taste ; for hence the appetite Was warp'd to evil ...
... voice murmuring " Adam , " and sees them circling a tree despoiled of leafage , and takes note of a benediction on " Gryphon , † whose beak hath never pluck'd that tree Pleasant to taste ; for hence the appetite Was warp'd to evil ...
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... Béranger made the Raven and the Dove his theme for a copy of verses that might be called the Two Voices ; the Dove all hope and faith and Giving her vain excursions o'er , The disappointed bird once FROM THE ARK . 15.
... Béranger made the Raven and the Dove his theme for a copy of verses that might be called the Two Voices ; the Dove all hope and faith and Giving her vain excursions o'er , The disappointed bird once FROM THE ARK . 15.
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... voice is heard in the Harmonies religieuses to give a pourquoi for the complainer's tossings to and fro of heart and hope , comme un malade dans son lit : * 66 ' Pourquoi mon errante pensée , Comme une colombe blessée , Ne se repose en ...
... voice is heard in the Harmonies religieuses to give a pourquoi for the complainer's tossings to and fro of heart and hope , comme un malade dans son lit : * 66 ' Pourquoi mon errante pensée , Comme une colombe blessée , Ne se repose en ...
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... Voices . Frederick the Great's favourite consolation in moments of difficulty and danger was ( next , as Earl Stanhope parenthesizes , to writing verses of his own ) the perusal of Lucretius - of those passages , especially 4 ' WERE IT ...
... Voices . Frederick the Great's favourite consolation in moments of difficulty and danger was ( next , as Earl Stanhope parenthesizes , to writing verses of his own ) the perusal of Lucretius - of those passages , especially 4 ' WERE IT ...
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... voices , and only their voices , are heard , and this is the strain of their strange reluctance : " Quoi ! renaître , revoir le ciel et la lumière , Ces temoins d'un malheur qui n'est point oublié , Eux qui sur nos douleurs et sur notre ...
... voices , and only their voices , are heard , and this is the strain of their strange reluctance : " Quoi ! renaître , revoir le ciel et la lumière , Ces temoins d'un malheur qui n'est point oublié , Eux qui sur nos douleurs et sur notre ...
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Page 195 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 212 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 142 - And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword : and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Page 128 - And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel ; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant : " Go up now, look toward the sea.
Page 267 - So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born ; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did : So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawninoAnother blue Day: ' : Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
Page 147 - With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?
Page 291 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 319 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Page 275 - And whether we shall meet again I know not. Therefore our everlasting farewell take : For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius ! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile ; If not, why then, this parting was well made.
Page 274 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.