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... present ; but My tale I'll follow to its last recess , Of suffering and peace . Torn from the abode of her father , and deprived of the presence , or the means of procuring the presence of her betrothed , the situation of the lovely ...
... present ; but My tale I'll follow to its last recess , Of suffering and peace . Torn from the abode of her father , and deprived of the presence , or the means of procuring the presence of her betrothed , the situation of the lovely ...
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... present an obstacle , it was , that his Excellenza should enlist in his troop , having at the time of obtaining the command made a solemn vow , not to entrust the guidance of a single man , but to such as were duly inaugurated . Without ...
... present an obstacle , it was , that his Excellenza should enlist in his troop , having at the time of obtaining the command made a solemn vow , not to entrust the guidance of a single man , but to such as were duly inaugurated . Without ...
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... present happiness . She became the mo- ther of beautiful children , and devoted her time to their improvement . One evening , a stranger was observed slowly walking up the approach to the chateau , and on his arrival , requested an ...
... present happiness . She became the mo- ther of beautiful children , and devoted her time to their improvement . One evening , a stranger was observed slowly walking up the approach to the chateau , and on his arrival , requested an ...
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... present , or future . It is rather to be remarked that it is always confined to " ' fat , gross men . " Con- tentment and corpulency go hand in hand . There is no analogy between it and leanness . A thin contented man is quite a paradox ...
... present , or future . It is rather to be remarked that it is always confined to " ' fat , gross men . " Con- tentment and corpulency go hand in hand . There is no analogy between it and leanness . A thin contented man is quite a paradox ...
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... present that could be made , the prettiest fête - day gift , the most elegant gage d ' amitié to present at the hôtel Saint Paul , or to grace the bower of Madame Isabeau . Maître Thibault loved his art ; of which the perfection he had ...
... present that could be made , the prettiest fête - day gift , the most elegant gage d ' amitié to present at the hôtel Saint Paul , or to grace the bower of Madame Isabeau . Maître Thibault loved his art ; of which the perfection he had ...
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Page 58 - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Page 58 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 286 - The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man.
Page 195 - The castled Crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine...
Page 194 - I do embrace it : for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding.
Page 176 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Page 176 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 86 - Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed; I was not heard - I saw them not...
Page 114 - It might be added, that early authorities show us no such persons as Banquo and his son Fleance, nor have we reason to think that the latter ever fled further from Macbeth than across the flat scene, according to the stage direction. Neither were Banquo or his son ancestors of the house of Stuart.
Page 168 - When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones.