Readings from the best authors, ed. by A.H. Bryce, Issue 9Archibald Hamilton Bryce 1862 |
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Page 24
... darkness and uncertainty , does not surpass . The rising of the moon is more in keeping with the solitary ocean , and has an air of melancholy grandeur , which in its soft and gentle influence , seems to comfort while it saddens . I ...
... darkness and uncertainty , does not surpass . The rising of the moon is more in keeping with the solitary ocean , and has an air of melancholy grandeur , which in its soft and gentle influence , seems to comfort while it saddens . I ...
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... darkness , swiftly . And presently , our sails being backed , she ran alongside ; and the hoarse pilot , wrapped and muffled in pea - coats and shawls to the very bridge of his weather - ploughed - up nose , stood bodily among us on the ...
... darkness , swiftly . And presently , our sails being backed , she ran alongside ; and the hoarse pilot , wrapped and muffled in pea - coats and shawls to the very bridge of his weather - ploughed - up nose , stood bodily among us on the ...
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... dark- ness into more than day , withering eye and soul , burned from the zenith to the ground , and marked its track ... darkness was palpable even in the midnight in which we stood , covered the holy hill . Impa- tient , and not to be ...
... dark- ness into more than day , withering eye and soul , burned from the zenith to the ground , and marked its track ... darkness was palpable even in the midnight in which we stood , covered the holy hill . Impa- tient , and not to be ...
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... was diminished to the brightness of a star . Then the thunder roared again ; the cloudy temple was scattered on the wind ; and darkness , the omen of the grave , settled upon Jerusalem . II . THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII . ( SIR E.
... was diminished to the brightness of a star . Then the thunder roared again ; the cloudy temple was scattered on the wind ; and darkness , the omen of the grave , settled upon Jerusalem . II . THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII . ( SIR E.
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... dark - green waves beyond ! how cloudless spread , aloft and blue , the dreaming Campanian skies ! Yet this was the last night for the gay Pompeii ! the colony of the hoar Chaldean the fabled city of Hercules ! the delight of the ...
... dark - green waves beyond ! how cloudless spread , aloft and blue , the dreaming Campanian skies ! Yet this was the last night for the gay Pompeii ! the colony of the hoar Chaldean the fabled city of Hercules ! the delight of the ...
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