The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 1Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1865 - American literature |
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... passing strange if either Frenchmen and Englishmen , so recently engaged in animated competi- tion , had suddenly ... passed successively through the grades of captain , commandant , lieutenant- colonel , adjutant - colonel , marshal ...
... passing strange if either Frenchmen and Englishmen , so recently engaged in animated competi- tion , had suddenly ... passed successively through the grades of captain , commandant , lieutenant- colonel , adjutant - colonel , marshal ...
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... passing herself off as the cipalities , were equitable and moderate most inoffensive and least grasping of steps ... passed from neutrality taken for ambition in Russia , is simply to threats . a double impulse arising from her geo ...
... passing herself off as the cipalities , were equitable and moderate most inoffensive and least grasping of steps ... passed from neutrality taken for ambition in Russia , is simply to threats . a double impulse arising from her geo ...
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with which he talks of various matters which are for the most part passed over by travellers either in discreet silence or else treated with mincing periphrases , is sometimes a little startling ; but in this and in some of his other ...
with which he talks of various matters which are for the most part passed over by travellers either in discreet silence or else treated with mincing periphrases , is sometimes a little startling ; but in this and in some of his other ...
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... passed on . As slaves are passing to and fro all day long , and their pace is of the slowest , the tinkle of their bell , and the consequent flight of every native male , however occupied , become a pro- found nuisance to the traveller ...
... passed on . As slaves are passing to and fro all day long , and their pace is of the slowest , the tinkle of their bell , and the consequent flight of every native male , however occupied , become a pro- found nuisance to the traveller ...
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... passed between their legs , the ankles , the shins under the knees , and the wrists , being lashed outside with connected ties . " They remarked the presence of white men , chattered to- gether , and kept time to the music . Vis- itors ...
... passed between their legs , the ankles , the shins under the knees , and the wrists , being lashed outside with connected ties . " They remarked the presence of white men , chattered to- gether , and kept time to the music . Vis- itors ...
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Page 65 - LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. "And many people shall go and say, 'Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths:' for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Page 464 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 469 - I do not think so ; since he went into France, I have been in continual practice ; I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart ; but it is no matter.
Page 279 - A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare Ships, towers, domes, theatres. and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Page 423 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: "'Tis clear...
Page 211 - O ! th' exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe...
Page 468 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 280 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 457 - He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being : that done, he lets me go : And with his head over his shoulder turn'd, He seem'd to find his way without his eyes ; For out o' doors he went without their help, And to the last bended their light on me.
Page 63 - Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls A place and a name better than of sons and of daughters : I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.