Memoirs of Celebrated Characters, Volumen3Harper & brothers, 1856 |
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... respecting Switzerland ( or Helvetia ) and its inhabit- ants . The Alps , resembling a strong and prominent knot of the muscles of the earth's granite , constitute a chain of mountains which extends over a space of three hundred leagues ...
... respecting Switzerland ( or Helvetia ) and its inhabit- ants . The Alps , resembling a strong and prominent knot of the muscles of the earth's granite , constitute a chain of mountains which extends over a space of three hundred leagues ...
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... respecting Switzerland ( or Helvetia ) and its inhabit- ants . The Alps , resembling a strong and prominent knot of the muscles of the earth's granite , constitute a chain of mountains which extends over a space of three hundred leagues ...
... respecting Switzerland ( or Helvetia ) and its inhabit- ants . The Alps , resembling a strong and prominent knot of the muscles of the earth's granite , constitute a chain of mountains which extends over a space of three hundred leagues ...
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... respect the rights and property of the Count of Hapsburg ; to do no violence to the imperial bail- iffs , but to put an end to their tyranny . " The day of ris- ing was fixed for the 1st of the January following , 1308 . The traditions ...
... respect the rights and property of the Count of Hapsburg ; to do no violence to the imperial bail- iffs , but to put an end to their tyranny . " The day of ris- ing was fixed for the 1st of the January following , 1308 . The traditions ...
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... respect to it . ELIZABETH . I wish he would go away , and leave us his hat as a sole legacy ; things would get on none the worse in the country . FRIESSHARDT . ( Driving them off . ) Begone , wretched troop of women ! You are not wanted ...
... respect to it . ELIZABETH . I wish he would go away , and leave us his hat as a sole legacy ; things would get on none the worse in the country . FRIESSHARDT . ( Driving them off . ) Begone , wretched troop of women ! You are not wanted ...
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... respect , renown , and reputation entered by that avenue . There are pavements which ennoble those who tread them . Pride , vanity , and pre - eminence of race or profession are so inherent in human nature , that they consider the ...
... respect , renown , and reputation entered by that avenue . There are pavements which ennoble those who tread them . Pride , vanity , and pre - eminence of race or profession are so inherent in human nature , that they consider the ...
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Página 137 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day...
Página 136 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Página 136 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 128 - My only strength and stay ; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
Página 136 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Página 141 - Now, when as sacred light began to dawn In Eden on the humid flowers, that breathed Their morning incense, when all things, that breathe From the Earth's great altar send up silent praise To the Creator, and his nostrils fill With grateful smell, forth came the human pair, And...
Página 128 - He added not, and from her turn'd ; but Eve Not so repulsed, with tears that ceased not flowing, And tresses all disorder'd, at his feet Fell humble, and, embracing them, besought His peace, and thus proceeded in her plaint.
Página 137 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 128 - She ended weeping, and her lowly plight, Immovable till peace obtained from fault Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration; soon his heart relented Towards her, his life so late and sole delight, Now at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking, His counsel whom she had displeased, his aid; As one disarmed, his anger all he lost...
Página 140 - Awake: The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.