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... appeared on the return was still that of Giercumo , the next Auguste ; that of Risconti's turning too short , got entangled in the rigging of the vessel , which detained it . The remainder of the race was now strictly confined to the ...
... appeared on the return was still that of Giercumo , the next Auguste ; that of Risconti's turning too short , got entangled in the rigging of the vessel , which detained it . The remainder of the race was now strictly confined to the ...
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... appearing with his house- bold in a manner befitting his own high rank , as also that of his lady . The sun was in ... appearance of their boats . At length many drew aside , to make way for the gondola di Romaine , which staid its way ...
... appearing with his house- bold in a manner befitting his own high rank , as also that of his lady . The sun was in ... appearance of their boats . At length many drew aside , to make way for the gondola di Romaine , which staid its way ...
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... appeared . Oh have you seen bathed in the morning dew , The budding rose its infant bloom display , When first its virgin tints unfold to view , It shrinks , and scarcely trusts the blaze of day ? So soft , so delicate , so sweet she ...
... appeared . Oh have you seen bathed in the morning dew , The budding rose its infant bloom display , When first its virgin tints unfold to view , It shrinks , and scarcely trusts the blaze of day ? So soft , so delicate , so sweet she ...
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... appeared so fright- ened , that Captain Sinclair gained his wager . THE SORROWS OF WERTER . Ir is a singular fact , that the celebrated Goethe , the author of this popular novel , was also himself the hero . From an entertaining work ...
... appeared so fright- ened , that Captain Sinclair gained his wager . THE SORROWS OF WERTER . Ir is a singular fact , that the celebrated Goethe , the author of this popular novel , was also himself the hero . From an entertaining work ...
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... appearance bespoke him one who had travelled fast and far . Approaching Auguste with more speed than the crippled gait ... appeared to Auguste , who could but look straight before him , for the narrow glen only afforded a view of a few ...
... appearance bespoke him one who had travelled fast and far . Approaching Auguste with more speed than the crippled gait ... appeared to Auguste , who could but look straight before him , for the narrow glen only afforded a view of a few ...
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Page 58 - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Page 58 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 286 - The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man.
Page 195 - 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...
Page 194 - I do embrace it : for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding.
Page 176 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Page 176 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 86 - Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed; I was not heard - I saw them not...
Page 114 - It might be added, that early authorities show us no such persons as Banquo and his son Fleance, nor have we reason to think that the latter ever fled further from Macbeth than across the flat scene, according to the stage direction. Neither were Banquo or his son ancestors of the house of Stuart.
Page 168 - When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones.