The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 13Abel Stevens, James Floy Carlton & Phillips, 1858 - Periodicals |
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... night the count escaped by a secret path to the mountains . The im- perialists presented themselves before the castle , and summoned the little garrison to surrender . The commander , a faithful French servant , speaking in the name of ...
... night the count escaped by a secret path to the mountains . The im- perialists presented themselves before the castle , and summoned the little garrison to surrender . The commander , a faithful French servant , speaking in the name of ...
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... night , Your hand's pathetic fold : A young man's face - so like , so like Our mothers ' faces fair ; A young man's hand , so firm to hold , So resolute to dare . I thought you good - I wish'd you great ; You were my hope , my pride ...
... night , Your hand's pathetic fold : A young man's face - so like , so like Our mothers ' faces fair ; A young man's hand , so firm to hold , So resolute to dare . I thought you good - I wish'd you great ; You were my hope , my pride ...
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... night and day . The Greenland Processes are ready . The manuscript is taken to the nearest bookseller , and in an hour is returned to its author . A second , a third proposal , with like results . Now he goes about among the publishers ...
... night and day . The Greenland Processes are ready . The manuscript is taken to the nearest bookseller , and in an hour is returned to its author . A second , a third proposal , with like results . Now he goes about among the publishers ...
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... night he roamed through the streets of the great city like a runaway dog ; his desk and seat were the table and bench of the commonest tavern ; he frequently sought sleep and oblivion in the most wretched dens , side by side with ...
... night he roamed through the streets of the great city like a runaway dog ; his desk and seat were the table and bench of the commonest tavern ; he frequently sought sleep and oblivion in the most wretched dens , side by side with ...
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... night . " O it was pitiful he should lie there ! The letter had scarcely gone out from his friends , sending him a message of par- ental pity and love , before there came the black - sealed letter , telling of death ! His eyes were ...
... night . " O it was pitiful he should lie there ! The letter had scarcely gone out from his friends , sending him a message of par- ental pity and love , before there came the black - sealed letter , telling of death ! His eyes were ...
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Page 152 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 222 - So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 221 - Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Page 47 - I know not the day of my death : now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison ; and make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat ; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Page 318 - I hang like a roof — The mountains its columns be. The triumphal arch, through which I march With hurricane, fire, and snow, When the powers of the air are chained to my chair, Is the million-coloured bow...
Page 148 - Of blackening pines, aye waving to and fro, Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood ; And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.
Page 431 - But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 138 - Thou struggles! to get free, I never will unloose my hold ! Art Thou the Man that died for me ? The secret of Thy love unfold ; Wrestling, I will not let Thee go, Till I Thy name, Thy nature know.
Page 473 - I thank Thee more that all our joy Is touched with pain ; That shadows fall on brightest hours ; That thorns remain ; So that earth's bliss may be our guide, And not our chain.
Page 22 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.