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... seemed tottering on the very verge of dissolution , was entirely abandoned to the enjoyment of the voluptuous pleasures of the Orientals . Its merchants , indulging in the most profuse expenditure and the most costly luxury , had become ...
... seemed tottering on the very verge of dissolution , was entirely abandoned to the enjoyment of the voluptuous pleasures of the Orientals . Its merchants , indulging in the most profuse expenditure and the most costly luxury , had become ...
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... seemed the guardian of the place . Around it , on every side , for the distance of half a mile , the wood had been cleared , for preventing the sudden approach of foes , under cover of the trees , and for giving space for those fa ...
... seemed the guardian of the place . Around it , on every side , for the distance of half a mile , the wood had been cleared , for preventing the sudden approach of foes , under cover of the trees , and for giving space for those fa ...
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... seemed conscious of his noble burden , and disdained to tread the ground over which he appeared to fly , he recklessly pressed onward , nor checked his headlong speed till he arrived at the moat , and within arrow shot of the archers on ...
... seemed conscious of his noble burden , and disdained to tread the ground over which he appeared to fly , he recklessly pressed onward , nor checked his headlong speed till he arrived at the moat , and within arrow shot of the archers on ...
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... seemed , Thy heart would cease its beating . Thy spirit , like a breath of air , Hath floated on to heaven ; But yet our hearts thy name will bear , And will a wreath of cypress wear , Our hearts with sorrow riven . O , let the flower ...
... seemed , Thy heart would cease its beating . Thy spirit , like a breath of air , Hath floated on to heaven ; But yet our hearts thy name will bear , And will a wreath of cypress wear , Our hearts with sorrow riven . O , let the flower ...
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... apartment , furnished in the latest style , with an elegance which would please the nice taste of a modern man of letters , but which at first view seemed unsuited to the sombre gravity of one of the 46 [ November , EPILEGOMENA .
... apartment , furnished in the latest style , with an elegance which would please the nice taste of a modern man of letters , but which at first view seemed unsuited to the sombre gravity of one of the 46 [ November , EPILEGOMENA .
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Page 429 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more...
Page 428 - Egypt from Syrian ground, had general names Of Baalim and Ashtaroth ; those male, These feminine : For Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both ; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure ; Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh...
Page 259 - But, in spite of the absence of these two distinguished members of the Lower House, the box in which the managers stood contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides.
Page 268 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labor and intent study, which I take to be my portion in this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 264 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
Page 373 - MY JO. JOHN Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent ; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is beld, John Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo.
Page 372 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was f u...
Page 71 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 39 - Miserable man! you, one of the meanest, have wantonly defaced one of the noblest specimens of the workmanship of God. Nor shall it be your excuse, that, murderer as you are, you have spoken daggers, but used none.
Page 210 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.