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... Death , did not blush to erect above the Dust and Ashes , which it meant to immortalize , but only mocked . The gorgeous frescoes which originally adorned the murky walls and cieling of this chamber of death , denoting by their subject ...
... Death , did not blush to erect above the Dust and Ashes , which it meant to immortalize , but only mocked . The gorgeous frescoes which originally adorned the murky walls and cieling of this chamber of death , denoting by their subject ...
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... death of the Colonnas , he said , " I have this day cut off an ear , which neither the Pope nor Emperor was ever able to accomplish . " The bodies of the Colonnas were carried to the Church of the Monastery of Sta . Maria d'Ara Celi ...
... death of the Colonnas , he said , " I have this day cut off an ear , which neither the Pope nor Emperor was ever able to accomplish . " The bodies of the Colonnas were carried to the Church of the Monastery of Sta . Maria d'Ara Celi ...
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... death of King Polybus : " Of no distemper , of no blast he died , But fell , like Autumn fruit , that mellow'd long , Even wonder'd at , because he dropt no sooner ; Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years , Yet freshly ran he on ...
... death of King Polybus : " Of no distemper , of no blast he died , But fell , like Autumn fruit , that mellow'd long , Even wonder'd at , because he dropt no sooner ; Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years , Yet freshly ran he on ...
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... death . Oh , how the spectre of the Parricide must " " grin horribly a ghastly smile " to behold the usurping towers and domes of his supercilious spoiler not only overthrown but ac- tually protecting with their down fallen fragments ...
... death . Oh , how the spectre of the Parricide must " " grin horribly a ghastly smile " to behold the usurping towers and domes of his supercilious spoiler not only overthrown but ac- tually protecting with their down fallen fragments ...
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... death ! The most luxuriant orchards of fig and almond , waving over vineyards of the freshest green , surround this mournful House of Memory , which derives per- haps a more congenial shade from the fine thick grove of cypress trees ...
... death ! The most luxuriant orchards of fig and almond , waving over vineyards of the freshest green , surround this mournful House of Memory , which derives per- haps a more congenial shade from the fine thick grove of cypress trees ...
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Page 168 - And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even ! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Page 250 - A milk-white Hind,* immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns, and in the forest ranged ; Without unspotted, innocent within, She fear'd no danger, for she knew no sin.
Page 287 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Page 248 - Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial The intertissued robe of gold and pearl, The farced title running 'fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world...
Page 66 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music!
Page 312 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 201 - Beware !" her vest of gold Broidered with flowers and clasped from head to foot, An emerald stone in every golden clasp, And on her brow, fairer than alabaster, A coronet of pearls. But then her face ! So lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, The overflowings of an innocent heart : It haunts me still, though many a year has fled, Like some wild melody.
Page 20 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 298 - And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God.
Page 89 - When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit; When the chestnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit...