Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 Seiten |
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... hundred horse . Beside these , he had his feudatories of the palatinate , six bannermen and one hundred and sixty knights , not one of whom , says an old poem , but surpassed Arthur himself , though endowed with the charmed gifts of ...
... hundred horse . Beside these , he had his feudatories of the palatinate , six bannermen and one hundred and sixty knights , not one of whom , says an old poem , but surpassed Arthur himself , though endowed with the charmed gifts of ...
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... hundred whispering voices seem to gibber the words upon the air . He had only one glimpse of his com- panion , in which he had seen him stand- ing with the basket on his arm , and the match in his raised hand ; but he had seen him in ...
... hundred whispering voices seem to gibber the words upon the air . He had only one glimpse of his com- panion , in which he had seen him stand- ing with the basket on his arm , and the match in his raised hand ; but he had seen him in ...
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... hundreds of generations ; but as particles of sand and stone gather in their hidden folds , and as the bodies and ... hundred years in different por- tions of Europe . Vast regions of our globe are covered with these remnants of once ...
... hundreds of generations ; but as particles of sand and stone gather in their hidden folds , and as the bodies and ... hundred years in different por- tions of Europe . Vast regions of our globe are covered with these remnants of once ...
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... hundred head of cattle ; but a few years destroy their form , and they disappear without leaving a trace behind them . Near St. Omer , in France , these islands are left to roam freely , during summer where- ever they list , but in ...
... hundred head of cattle ; but a few years destroy their form , and they disappear without leaving a trace behind them . Near St. Omer , in France , these islands are left to roam freely , during summer where- ever they list , but in ...
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... hundred and fifty of such successive generations may dis- tinctly be counted ! But tenderly as nature had covered their dead bodies , still their race was not yet run , their purpose but half ful- filled . Tree by tree , and herb by ...
... hundred and fifty of such successive generations may dis- tinctly be counted ! But tenderly as nature had covered their dead bodies , still their race was not yet run , their purpose but half ful- filled . Tree by tree , and herb by ...
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Seite 202 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Seite 167 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Seite 49 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Seite 506 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim...
Seite 524 - Here the free spirit of mankind at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race...
Seite 448 - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Seite 8 - At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.
Seite 249 - Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face.
Seite 319 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Seite 472 - Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason. But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct...