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... tion , and has not failed to be hinted at in the " Sorrows . " The real object of this gentleman's passion was Mrs. Herd , wife of the private secretary to the ambassador from the Lower Palatinate ; a lady of most exquisite beauty . On ...
... tion , and has not failed to be hinted at in the " Sorrows . " The real object of this gentleman's passion was Mrs. Herd , wife of the private secretary to the ambassador from the Lower Palatinate ; a lady of most exquisite beauty . On ...
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... tion of actual enjoyment , the various rich estates , the productive vineyards and spacious dwellings he would possess . The perfect willingness of the young ma to his father's proposal , was so pleasing to the senior , that he gave an ...
... tion of actual enjoyment , the various rich estates , the productive vineyards and spacious dwellings he would possess . The perfect willingness of the young ma to his father's proposal , was so pleasing to the senior , that he gave an ...
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... tion of the Suffering Redeemer . He gazed for a moment on her well - remembered form , then clasped her to his bosom . " Cara mia Angelica . " " Mio ben amato , " she faintly ut- tered , then fainted from excess of joy . In a few days ...
... tion of the Suffering Redeemer . He gazed for a moment on her well - remembered form , then clasped her to his bosom . " Cara mia Angelica . " " Mio ben amato , " she faintly ut- tered , then fainted from excess of joy . In a few days ...
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... tion ; the well - trained paces of the steed , and the gorgeous panoply and trappings of horse and rider , always impress the mind with an idea of irresistible strength , the dread beauty of the field , and those feelings are aptly ...
... tion ; the well - trained paces of the steed , and the gorgeous panoply and trappings of horse and rider , always impress the mind with an idea of irresistible strength , the dread beauty of the field , and those feelings are aptly ...
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... tion to him under many afflictions , public as well as private . His country was a prey to the foreigner , his city torn asun- der by factions , even his peaceable quar- ter saw many days of trouble when the great massacre arose at the ...
... tion to him under many afflictions , public as well as private . His country was a prey to the foreigner , his city torn asun- der by factions , even his peaceable quar- ter saw many days of trouble when the great massacre arose at the ...
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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.