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... side farthest removed from the castle , along the Horse - market , opposite the New - town , the states dragoons and the light horse of Beveren had been posted , and the flying masses of pursuers and pursued swept at last through this ...
... side farthest removed from the castle , along the Horse - market , opposite the New - town , the states dragoons and the light horse of Beveren had been posted , and the flying masses of pursuers and pursued swept at last through this ...
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... side , the magnificent cathedral , separated from the Grande Place by a single row of buildings , was lighted up , but not attacked , by the flames . The tall spire cast its gigantic shadow across the last desperate conflict . In the ...
... side , the magnificent cathedral , separated from the Grande Place by a single row of buildings , was lighted up , but not attacked , by the flames . The tall spire cast its gigantic shadow across the last desperate conflict . In the ...
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... side ; in the other he holds the fragment of a pipe , or some such sylvan instrument of music . His only garment - a lion's skin , with the claws upon his shoulder - falls half - way down his back , leaving the limbs and entire front of ...
... side ; in the other he holds the fragment of a pipe , or some such sylvan instrument of music . His only garment - a lion's skin , with the claws upon his shoulder - falls half - way down his back , leaving the limbs and entire front of ...
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... side of the ablest navigators . " So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a noble act is done , —per- chance in a scene of great natural beauty ; when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying ...
... side of the ablest navigators . " So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a noble act is done , —per- chance in a scene of great natural beauty ; when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying ...
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... side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretcheth out her arms to em- brace man , only let his thoughts be of ...
... side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretcheth out her arms to em- brace man , only let his thoughts be of ...
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Page 100 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear ; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, " She is near, she is near; And the white rose weeps, " She is late ; " The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers,
Page 127 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness? think of it; The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain That looks so many fathoms to the sea And hears it roar beneath.
Page 126 - Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable* shape, That I will speak to thee ; I'll call thee, Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane : O, answer me : Let me not burst in ignorance...
Page 164 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Page 60 - Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. And some in dreams assured were, Of the Spirit that plagued us so; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah! well a-day!...
Page 106 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. "And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell; Such thoughts to Lucy I will give While she and I together live Here in this happy dell.
Page 136 - The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 68 - Who sank thy sunless pillars deep in Earth ? Who filled thy countenance with rosy light ? Who made thee parent of perpetual streams...
Page 105 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said : " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
Page 72 - The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.