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... less than eighty yards . Two or three days were spent on the banks of this beautiful stream , in the endeavour to find a con- venient crossing - place . Pursuing their course , they came , at the distance of thirty - four miles , to ...
... less than eighty yards . Two or three days were spent on the banks of this beautiful stream , in the endeavour to find a con- venient crossing - place . Pursuing their course , they came , at the distance of thirty - four miles , to ...
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... less than two years and a half from the time when the rich plains of Port Phillip were untrodden save by the foot of their aboriginal natives , or their verdure disturbed except by the leap of the kangaroo , the Saxon energy had planted ...
... less than two years and a half from the time when the rich plains of Port Phillip were untrodden save by the foot of their aboriginal natives , or their verdure disturbed except by the leap of the kangaroo , the Saxon energy had planted ...
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... less pliant neighbours in their folds , twine their branches into one connected canopy , or hang down , here loose , and swaying in the air or in festoons from tree to tree , and there stiff and rooted . No sooner has decay diminished ...
... less pliant neighbours in their folds , twine their branches into one connected canopy , or hang down , here loose , and swaying in the air or in festoons from tree to tree , and there stiff and rooted . No sooner has decay diminished ...
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... less musical compass , are the most pleasing sounds heard ; the most constant are those of insects , which sometimes rise into a shrill and deafening clangour ; and the most impressive are the prolonged complaining cries of the unkas ...
... less musical compass , are the most pleasing sounds heard ; the most constant are those of insects , which sometimes rise into a shrill and deafening clangour ; and the most impressive are the prolonged complaining cries of the unkas ...
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... less considerable stream than the Elbe , yet the natural and geological features of both places are precisely the same . At In each , stratified rocks form part of the scenery , rising to a height of 6,700 feet , and evidently formed at ...
... less considerable stream than the Elbe , yet the natural and geological features of both places are precisely the same . At In each , stratified rocks form part of the scenery , rising to a height of 6,700 feet , and evidently formed at ...
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Page 93 - This is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 470 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
Page 526 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we...
Page 408 - And the Lord smelled a sweet savour ; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Page 603 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 406 - FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon : As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Page 452 - Forthwith a guard at every gun was placed along the wall; The beacon blazed upon the roof of Edgecumbe's lofty hall; Many a light fishing-bark put out to pry along the coast, And with loose rein and bloody spur rode inland many a post.
Page 529 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 598 - Wild is thy lay, and loud, Far in the downy cloud ; Love gives it energy, love gave it birth! Where, on thy dewy wing — Where art thou journeying ? Thy lay is in heaven ; thy love is on earth.
Page 598 - O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be ! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place, — Oh, to abide in the desert with thee!