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... thousands of our Fellow - Crea- 1 from Torture , brutal Slavery , and Murder . By the second , Millions are in he different Nations of the Earth , which have adopted Vaccine Inoculation , would have perished in infancy . And by the ...
... thousands of our Fellow - Crea- 1 from Torture , brutal Slavery , and Murder . By the second , Millions are in he different Nations of the Earth , which have adopted Vaccine Inoculation , would have perished in infancy . And by the ...
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... thousand childre instruction at Mr. Lancaster's own school ; and hitherto no ins to his knowledge of one of his scholars ( although composed classes in society ) having been charged in any court of justic nal offence . " " Robert Raikes ...
... thousand childre instruction at Mr. Lancaster's own school ; and hitherto no ins to his knowledge of one of his scholars ( although composed classes in society ) having been charged in any court of justic nal offence . " " Robert Raikes ...
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... thousand keels did ride Of mighty strength , since Albion was allied , And to the Lusians did her aid afford : A nation swoln with ignorance and pride , Who lick yet loathe the hand that waves the sword To save them from the wrath of ...
... thousand keels did ride Of mighty strength , since Albion was allied , And to the Lusians did her aid afford : A nation swoln with ignorance and pride , Who lick yet loathe the hand that waves the sword To save them from the wrath of ...
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... thousand such are rife Throughout this purple land , where law secures not life . * XXII . On sloping mounds , or in the vale beneath , Are domes where whilome kings did make repair ; But now the wild flowers round them only breathe ...
... thousand such are rife Throughout this purple land , where law secures not life . * XXII . On sloping mounds , or in the vale beneath , Are domes where whilome kings did make repair ; But now the wild flowers round them only breathe ...
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... thousand such are rife Throughout this purple land , where law secures not life . " XXII . On sloping mounds , or in the vale beneath , Are domes where whilome kings did make repair ; But now the wild flowers round them only breathe ...
... thousand such are rife Throughout this purple land , where law secures not life . " XXII . On sloping mounds , or in the vale beneath , Are domes where whilome kings did make repair ; But now the wild flowers round them only breathe ...
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Page 78 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 176 - Dark-heaving, boundless, endless and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 76 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
Page 175 - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 97 - He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Page 85 - The castled crag of Drachenfels("> Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strew'da scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me ! 2.
Page 99 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 62 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth...
Page 98 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep : — All heaven and earth are still : — From the high host Of stars, to the lull'd lake and mountain-coast, All is concenter'd in a life intense, Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, But hath a part of being, and a sense Of that which is of all Creator and defence, xc.