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... move by which two millions and a half of human beings sit down day by day to their meals as regularly and quietly as though they only formed a snug little party at Lovegrove's on a summer's afternoon ? As thus he mused respecting the ...
... move by which two millions and a half of human beings sit down day by day to their meals as regularly and quietly as though they only formed a snug little party at Lovegrove's on a summer's afternoon ? As thus he mused respecting the ...
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... moving mass approaching from all points of the horizon , the air suddenly becomes dark- a black pall seems drawn over the sky ; it is the great flock of birds ( game , poultry , and wild - fowl ) that are come up to be killed . As they ...
... moving mass approaching from all points of the horizon , the air suddenly becomes dark- a black pall seems drawn over the sky ; it is the great flock of birds ( game , poultry , and wild - fowl ) that are come up to be killed . As they ...
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... moving centres , or barrows of the hawk- ers : by which means nourishment is poured into every corner of the town , and the community at large is supplied as effectually as are the countless tissues of the human body by the infinitely ...
... moving centres , or barrows of the hawk- ers : by which means nourishment is poured into every corner of the town , and the community at large is supplied as effectually as are the countless tissues of the human body by the infinitely ...
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... move God to mé , moves mé to Gòd . If He does not descend to earth , I ascend to heaven . Child of God ! pray òn . Were it indispensable for thy safety that Gòd should rend these heavens , it should be done -a wondering world ' should ...
... move God to mé , moves mé to Gòd . If He does not descend to earth , I ascend to heaven . Child of God ! pray òn . Were it indispensable for thy safety that Gòd should rend these heavens , it should be done -a wondering world ' should ...
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... moves rapidly forward ; in a few minutes ! it is swallowed up from your eyes in clouds of smòke ; for óne half - hour from behind these clouds ! you receive hieroglyphic reports of bloody strife - fierce repeating signals , flashes from ...
... moves rapidly forward ; in a few minutes ! it is swallowed up from your eyes in clouds of smòke ; for óne half - hour from behind these clouds ! you receive hieroglyphic reports of bloody strife - fierce repeating signals , flashes from ...
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Page 50 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave !— For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave: Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow, While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 55 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Page 332 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 399 - ... livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 53 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 235 - Yet once, it is a little while, And I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: And I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 340 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks : They have a king who buys and sells ; In native swords, and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells : But Turkish force and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad.
Page 175 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer...
Page 292 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 161 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ! This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. 'Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.