The Republic of Letters: A Selection, in Poetry and Prose, from the Works of the Most Eminent Writers, with Many Original PiecesBlackie, 1835 |
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... turned out one of the most eloquent advocates of the Funding System . Heavens ! how he did talk of the sufferings and privations of the patriots of the Revolution ! he certainly owed them a good turn , for he got enough by them to build ...
... turned out one of the most eloquent advocates of the Funding System . Heavens ! how he did talk of the sufferings and privations of the patriots of the Revolution ! he certainly owed them a good turn , for he got enough by them to build ...
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... turning to Doctor Rhubarb , " with your hydraulic machine ; you might as well call a man a forcing pump at once ... turned every thing topsy - turvy ; anon the salt , sulphur , and mercury fell together by the ears ; and lastly ...
... turning to Doctor Rhubarb , " with your hydraulic machine ; you might as well call a man a forcing pump at once ... turned every thing topsy - turvy ; anon the salt , sulphur , and mercury fell together by the ears ; and lastly ...
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... turned their coats but himself , brought him in jeopardy of office . They all insisted he had desert- ed his party , when the fact was , his party had deserted him , as he solemnly assured me . Be this as it may , as his appointment was ...
... turned their coats but himself , brought him in jeopardy of office . They all insisted he had desert- ed his party , when the fact was , his party had deserted him , as he solemnly assured me . Be this as it may , as his appointment was ...
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... turning of the key . At first the trickling of the waters from the roof , and the falling of the icicles , apprize us of the advance of the sun , to resume his glowing sceptre . Anon the little sunny southern exposures begin to spot the ...
... turning of the key . At first the trickling of the waters from the roof , and the falling of the icicles , apprize us of the advance of the sun , to resume his glowing sceptre . Anon the little sunny southern exposures begin to spot the ...
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... turning upon hinges ; and having thrown it back , she stretched her head a little way into the moist atmosphere . A lantern was reddening the front of the house , and melting its light in the neighbouring puddles , while a deluge of ...
... turning upon hinges ; and having thrown it back , she stretched her head a little way into the moist atmosphere . A lantern was reddening the front of the house , and melting its light in the neighbouring puddles , while a deluge of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abnakis Ahasuerus Anatolius arms beautiful blessed boat Bothwell Castle breath Cæsar calomel child clane Colonel Hill cried dark death deep delight door dream earth Edwards eyes Eyloff face father Father Flanagan fear feel fell felt filly fire George Somers Glasgow Glencoe Greenock hand happy head heard heart heaven honour hope hour Jeannot Jesuit Julian knew lady laugh Lelia light living look Lord Lucerne madam marriage marry master Merry Michaul mind morning mother mountain negroes neighbours never night Nocton Norridgewocks o'er Otoolpha ould passed poor priest replied rich rocks round says Jack scene seemed side silence slaves sleep smile soon sorrow soul spirit stood stranger sure Switzerland syllabub tears tell thee thing thou thought took turned voice Waldstetten white mustard wife wild wonder word young youth
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Página 334 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night ; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again.
Página 336 - Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread; And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand; And one keen pyramid with wedge sublime, Pavilioning the dust of him who planned This refuge for his memory, doth stand Like flame transformed to marble; and beneath, A field is spread, on which a newer band Have pitched in Heaven's smile their camp of death, Welcoming...
Página 336 - Here pause: these graves are all too young as yet To have outgrown the sorrow which consigned Its charge to each; and if the seal is set, Here, on one fountain of a mourning mind. Break it not thou ! too surely shalt thou find Thine own well full, if thou returnest home, Of tears and gall. From the world's bitter wind Seek shelter in the shadow of the tomb. What Adonais is, why fear we to become?
Página 335 - And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil. When lofty thought Lifts a young heart above its mortal lair, And love and life contend in it, for what Shall be its earthly doom, the dead live there And move like winds of light on dark and stormy air.
Página 140 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Página 327 - In which suns perished. Others more sublime, Struck by the envious wrath of man or god, Have sunk, extinct in their refulgent prime ; And some yet live, treading the thorny road Which leads, through toil and hate, to Fame's serene abode. VI. But now thy youngest, dearest one has perished, The nursling of thy widowhood, who grew, Like a pale flower by some sad maiden cherished, And fed with true-love tears instead of dew.
Página 335 - That ages, empires, and religions there Lie buried in the ravage they have wrought; For such as he can lend, — they borrow not Glory from those who made the world their prey; And he is gathered to the kings of thought Who waged contention with their time's decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away.
Página 335 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light.
Página 327 - Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay, When thy Son lay, pierced by the shaft which flies In darkness? where was lorn Urania When Adonais died? With veiled eyes, 'Mid listening Echoes, in her Paradise She sate, while one, with soft...
Página 337 - Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love Which through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as...