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Page 48
... feet my offer'd vows With scorn Neæra hears , No sooner do I quit her house Than she dissolves in tears . ' Tis not through love Neæra grieves , Though she with truth complain— My absence her of joy bereaves- The joy of giving pain . ON ...
... feet my offer'd vows With scorn Neæra hears , No sooner do I quit her house Than she dissolves in tears . ' Tis not through love Neæra grieves , Though she with truth complain— My absence her of joy bereaves- The joy of giving pain . ON ...
Page 66
... feet in breadth , ( and flanked on the exterior side with a stone parapet ) winds along the south - east quarter to the summit of the rock . This communication , which forms the only possible entrance into the upper fort , was made at a ...
... feet in breadth , ( and flanked on the exterior side with a stone parapet ) winds along the south - east quarter to the summit of the rock . This communication , which forms the only possible entrance into the upper fort , was made at a ...
Page 132
... considered as a sine quá non with tripods , that they should stand on three feet . But enough of this cavilling at words . Yours , & c . PERCONTATOR . ON THE EYES OF PORTRAITS . PLINY remarks of a 132 CURIOUS ERRORS .
... considered as a sine quá non with tripods , that they should stand on three feet . But enough of this cavilling at words . Yours , & c . PERCONTATOR . ON THE EYES OF PORTRAITS . PLINY remarks of a 132 CURIOUS ERRORS .
Page 163
... feet long , and two feet nine inches broad the lower corners were fixed to pegs in the ground , and one of the upper ones to a rope held by the bird - catcher , as I have before mentioned , the other to a rope of fifteen feet long fixed ...
... feet long , and two feet nine inches broad the lower corners were fixed to pegs in the ground , and one of the upper ones to a rope held by the bird - catcher , as I have before mentioned , the other to a rope of fifteen feet long fixed ...
Page 164
... feet , flew several times round the enclosure , but the noise made by the . boy prevented their alighting ; they at length di- rected their flight towards the end where the fowler was seated , which , having sufficiently neared , the ...
... feet , flew several times round the enclosure , but the noise made by the . boy prevented their alighting ; they at length di- rected their flight towards the end where the fowler was seated , which , having sufficiently neared , the ...
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Page 217 - Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh'? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 84 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
Page 179 - Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Page 75 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Page 86 - And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief was very great.
Page 301 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Page 83 - Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.
Page xviii - When I reflect what an inconsiderable little atom every single man is, with respect to the whole creation, methinks it is a shame to be concerned at the removal of such a trivial animal as I am. The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily and marry as fast as they were used to do. " The memory of man," as it is elegantly expressed in the Book of Wisdom,...
Page 77 - Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. ''Hearts of oak...
Page xviii - There are reasons enough, in the fourth chapter of the same book, to make any young man contented with the prospect of death. " For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, or is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the grey hair to men, and an unspotted life is old age. He was taken away speedily, lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul,