Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 5; Volume 68John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1867 |
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... remains engraved on the mind of the reader . We do not grudge , however , that Francis I. is so leniently treated by his historian . As we find the chivalrous king , only a few years afterwards , a mis- erable prisoner in the Alcazar at ...
... remains engraved on the mind of the reader . We do not grudge , however , that Francis I. is so leniently treated by his historian . As we find the chivalrous king , only a few years afterwards , a mis- erable prisoner in the Alcazar at ...
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... remains of the Hall itself we owe to the lately deceased Earl of Abingdon . What motives could have influenced that no- bleman in ordering the destruction of so interesting a relic we can only conject- ure , more especially as the ...
... remains of the Hall itself we owe to the lately deceased Earl of Abingdon . What motives could have influenced that no- bleman in ordering the destruction of so interesting a relic we can only conject- ure , more especially as the ...
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... remains . My space is spanned ; And time has touched my forehead with his brand ; And life's illusions , summer birds , have fled : First , youth and love their pinions heavenward spread ; Then passed the flowers of theatre and feast ...
... remains . My space is spanned ; And time has touched my forehead with his brand ; And life's illusions , summer birds , have fled : First , youth and love their pinions heavenward spread ; Then passed the flowers of theatre and feast ...
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... remains , that the great criminal prison at Florence is in a better condition as re- gards sanitary arrangements than the barracks . Here , in a building formerly occupied by cloistered nuns , whence its name of Murate , are generally ...
... remains , that the great criminal prison at Florence is in a better condition as re- gards sanitary arrangements than the barracks . Here , in a building formerly occupied by cloistered nuns , whence its name of Murate , are generally ...
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... remains a question whether this advantage might not have been more effectively secured without the defects above mentioned , even if the old Land- wehr organization had been retained . We have devoted particular attention to this law of ...
... remains a question whether this advantage might not have been more effectively secured without the defects above mentioned , even if the old Land- wehr organization had been retained . We have devoted particular attention to this law of ...
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Page 241 - For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Page 241 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called : but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 344 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 346 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate: For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 313 - AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you And did you speak to him again ? How strange it seems and new...
Page 370 - A wizard of such dreaded fame That when, in Salamanca's cave, Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame...
Page 501 - Did not he magnify the mind, show clear Just what it all meant? He would not discount life, as fools do here, Paid by instalment. He ventured neck or nothing - heaven's success Found, or earth's failure: 'Wilt thou trust death or not?
Page 297 - THERE is a book, who runs may read, Which heavenly truth imparts, And all the lore its scholars need, Pure eyes and Christian hearts.
Page 241 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 241 - For the which cause I also suffer these things : nevertheless I am not ashamed : for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.