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| Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. Rut oh 1 how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had hut begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 pages
...palace court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.' The appearance of Saturn among the Titans is splendidly told: ' So Saturn, as he walk'd into the midst,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Authors - 1828 - 512 pages
...in it. But houses and their customs were different in those days. CALAMITIES FOLLOWING CALAMITIES. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if its vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and Ike sullen rear Was with its stored thunder... | |
| Sumner Lincoln Fairfield - 1830 - 172 pages
...His ancient mother, for some comfort yet." He describes Saturn's empress, and then proceeds : — " How beautiful if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful...than beauty's self! There was a listening fear in his regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the banward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice,... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...his neck. Her face was large as that of Memphian sphinx : But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...self. There was a listening fear in her regard , As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder... | |
| Thomas Hood - English fiction - 1834 - 328 pages
...swelling each after the other like the inky waves, with a storm in the distance. " As if calamity had just begun : As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had...sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up." To pass from the graver to the minor concerns of life, no card-player exists, but must some time have... | |
| Great Britain - 1862 - 454 pages
...palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful ! if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up." " Quse modo vis tantse labentem pondere cura; Excitet ? Accessit, Regemque decenter adorans Immemorem,... | |
| Thomas Hood - English wit and humor - 1835 - 272 pages
...after the other like the inky waves, with a storm in the distance. s As if calamity had just began : As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their...sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up." To pass from the graver to the minor concerns of life, no card-player exists, but must some time have... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 552 pages
...palace-court. When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if Sorrow had not made Sorrow more...listening fear in her regard. As if calamity had but began ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and Ihe sullen reor Was with... | |
| John Keats - English poetry - 1841 - 254 pages
...palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up. One hand she press'd upon that aching spot Where beats the human heart, as if just there, Though an... | |
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