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... At length , not fear , but labor , began to overcome him ; his breath grew short , and his knees trembled , and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate , when he beheld , through PROSE SELECTIONS . 37.
... At length , not fear , but labor , began to overcome him ; his breath grew short , and his knees trembled , and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate , when he beheld , through PROSE SELECTIONS . 37.
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... breath . The lonely luminary slowly ascended in the heavens , now peace- 10 fully pursuing her azure course , and now reposing on groups of clouds , which resembled the summits of lofty , snow - covered mountains . These clouds ...
... breath . The lonely luminary slowly ascended in the heavens , now peace- 10 fully pursuing her azure course , and now reposing on groups of clouds , which resembled the summits of lofty , snow - covered mountains . These clouds ...
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... Calmly to yield the weary breath , From sin and suffering cease : Think of heaven's bliss , and give the sign To parting friends such death be mine ! ― EXERCISE VI . From " The Fall of Jerusalem . 6 POETICAL SELECTIONS . 65.
... Calmly to yield the weary breath , From sin and suffering cease : Think of heaven's bliss , and give the sign To parting friends such death be mine ! ― EXERCISE VI . From " The Fall of Jerusalem . 6 POETICAL SELECTIONS . 65.
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... , the wide and deluging Waters , The ravenous Fire , and the plague - breathing Air , Yea , and the yawning and wide - chasmed Earth , 25 5 POETICAL SELECTIONS . They know thy bidding , by fixed 66 POETICAL SELECTIONS . MILMAN.
... , the wide and deluging Waters , The ravenous Fire , and the plague - breathing Air , Yea , and the yawning and wide - chasmed Earth , 25 5 POETICAL SELECTIONS . They know thy bidding , by fixed 66 POETICAL SELECTIONS . MILMAN.
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... breath of flowers , Thou callest us from city throngs and cares , Back to the woods , the birds , the mountain streams , - That sing of Thee ! back to free childhood's heart , Fresh with the dews of tenderness ! - Thou bidd'st The ...
... breath of flowers , Thou callest us from city throngs and cares , Back to the woods , the birds , the mountain streams , - That sing of Thee ! back to free childhood's heart , Fresh with the dews of tenderness ! - Thou bidd'st The ...
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Page 116 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 139 - Yet a few days and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 139 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Page 47 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 46 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 140 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 117 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 46 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 33 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Page 140 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.