Ainsworth's magazine: a miscellany of romance, general literature and art, Volume 251854 |
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Almeric appeared arms arrived Batavia better Broadface brother called Canches Chaville chevalier cold cried Crumbledust D'Aulnoy dark dauphin dear death door dress Edith Rivers exclaimed eyes face fancy father favour fear feel fire Flamel followed Fravaux gentleman give grand master Guttorm Halm hand happy hath head heard heart Hernbore honour hope Horncastle hour king lady laugh leave light live look Lord madame MARGARET OF PARMA mind Molay Montfaucon morning mother never Nicholas NICHOLAS FLAMEL night once passed perhaps Peter of Boulogne Philippe poor reader replied Rizpah Rodnagel round Saxon seemed ship side smile soon soul speak spirit stood strange Sweene tell Templars thee things thou thought town turned voice walked Wallford whilst Wicca wife Wilhelm Strasse WILLIAM PICKERSGILL Wilstan wind words young youth
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Page 418 - Mid Nature's embers, parched and dry, Where o'er some tower in ruin laid, The peepul spreads its haunted shade ; Or round a tomb his scales to wreathe, Fit warder in the gate of death ! Come on ! Yet pause! behold us now Beneath the bamboo's arched bough...
Page 293 - But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing, Of gentle breath and hue.
Page 505 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 437 - Surely there is a vein for the silver, And a place for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.
Page 245 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Page 378 - Turkish shirts, three pair of drawers, one suit of Turkish clothes for best occasions, a pair of sandals, and a red cap. From the day I left Suez (March 25, 1843), till about the same time in the year 1849, I never wore any article of European dress, nor indeed ever slept on a bed of any sort, — not even a mattress...
Page 312 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 379 - Pondicherry to he the hottest place in India, but still that it was nothing to Aden, while again Aden was a trifle to Massawa. He compared the climate of the first to a hot bath ; that of the second to a furnace; while the third, he said, could be equalled in temperature by nothing but , a place which he had never visited, and which it is to be hoped neither he nor any of us will.
Page 344 - Asaph, to say nothing of persons employed now in eminent place abroad, and many of especial note at home of all degrees, do acknowledge themselves to have been my scholars. Yea, I brought there to church divers gentlemen of Ireland, as Walshes, Nugents, O Rally, Shees, the eldest son of the archbishop of Cassiles, Petre Lombard a merchant's son of Waterford, a youth of admirable docility, and others bred popishly, and so affected.
Page 444 - Oh Death ! where is thy sting ? Oh Grave ! where is thy victory ? The sting of Death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.