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... dark moods , always the portion of such visionary intellects , the tenor of his usual existence was happy , with the calm , serene enjoyment , more lasting than wilder mirth . It is a strange thing , how great a waste of feel- ing marks ...
... dark moods , always the portion of such visionary intellects , the tenor of his usual existence was happy , with the calm , serene enjoyment , more lasting than wilder mirth . It is a strange thing , how great a waste of feel- ing marks ...
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... dark and stately ness at the fascinating face of his enchantress . beauty spoke volumes of the proud intellect whose lustre it reflected . Hers was a face to look on dreamingly , and to linger long in the gazer's memory . It was not ...
... dark and stately ness at the fascinating face of his enchantress . beauty spoke volumes of the proud intellect whose lustre it reflected . Hers was a face to look on dreamingly , and to linger long in the gazer's memory . It was not ...
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... Darkness from their temples flee . Oh Providence , was it thy wrath That tore from Patriarchal hearth The youthful ... dark abyss , Proclaiming India's deep distress . It bids thee , Zion , sorrowing weep O'er champions early sunk in ...
... Darkness from their temples flee . Oh Providence , was it thy wrath That tore from Patriarchal hearth The youthful ... dark abyss , Proclaiming India's deep distress . It bids thee , Zion , sorrowing weep O'er champions early sunk in ...
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... dark complexion and darker eyes showed him to belong to Italy . The youthful Avelino , such was his name , had often by the melody of his art , awa - sulted , but not the same effect . " kened the sleeping echoes on the bright waters of ...
... dark complexion and darker eyes showed him to belong to Italy . The youthful Avelino , such was his name , had often by the melody of his art , awa - sulted , but not the same effect . " kened the sleeping echoes on the bright waters of ...
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... of our life would be dark , heaven knows , If ' twere not with friendship and love intertwin'd , " sang Braithwaite , in a low voice , as he walked Which is the sage - the slave that toils , 1843. ] 43 The Winter Night's Club .
... of our life would be dark , heaven knows , If ' twere not with friendship and love intertwin'd , " sang Braithwaite , in a low voice , as he walked Which is the sage - the slave that toils , 1843. ] 43 The Winter Night's Club .
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Alice amid Anthemion appeared Aristophanes arms army beauty Braithwaite breath bright called cause character charm command dæmons dark death deep Dragut duty earth earthquake Enfield England Euripides eyes father fear feelings feet Floretta flowers France gaze Gertrude give hand happy heart Heaven honor hope hour human Irene King La Valette labor lady land Lausanne leave light lips live look lyre Maltese Mehemet Ali ment mind morning mother mountain Nancy nation nature Navy never night Nuncio o'er object officers once passed passion person Petrarch Plato pleasure Puerto Cabello racter Riego rience rose Saez scene seemed ship Sicily slaves smile song soon sorrow soul Spain spirit stood surgeons sweet tears thee Thespia thing thou thought tion truth turned voice whole William Bertram words young youth
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Page 138 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm — A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form.
Page 364 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, Till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land...
Page 386 - Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe: And if then you doe not like him, surely you are in some manifest danger, not to understand him.
Page 50 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 138 - Speak, Father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!" —And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
Page 363 - For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff", and the cummin with a rod.
Page 159 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Page 196 - By the sweet power of music : therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 386 - To the great Variety of Readers. — From the most able to him that can but spell ; — there you are number'd. We had rather you were weighd...
Page 363 - Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains; husbandmen also, and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.