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... reached us ; to wander in the creations of poetry , and grow warm again with that eloquence which swayed the democ- racies of the Old World ; to go up with great reasoners to the First Cause of all , and to perceive , in the midst of ...
... reached us ; to wander in the creations of poetry , and grow warm again with that eloquence which swayed the democ- racies of the Old World ; to go up with great reasoners to the First Cause of all , and to perceive , in the midst of ...
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... reached his conscience , And atoning for his guilt , Like a king , he gave the widow The pavilion he had built . J. D. BURNS . Anointed Judge of human - kind ! The Lord will come ! but not the same As once in lowly form he came , - A ...
... reached his conscience , And atoning for his guilt , Like a king , he gave the widow The pavilion he had built . J. D. BURNS . Anointed Judge of human - kind ! The Lord will come ! but not the same As once in lowly form he came , - A ...
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... reached them , before we noticed the lowering of the jolly - boat , in which was my late neighbour , Hardy , with a party of sailors ; and before many seconds had elapsed the current of the Straits ( which runs strongly to the east ...
... reached them , before we noticed the lowering of the jolly - boat , in which was my late neighbour , Hardy , with a party of sailors ; and before many seconds had elapsed the current of the Straits ( which runs strongly to the east ...
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... . Midway between the Equator and either Pole it is only 740 miles an hour , or about 12 miles a minute . At the nearest point to the North Pole which man has yet reached , hills , icebergs , plains , and seas , are THE EQUATOR . 75.
... . Midway between the Equator and either Pole it is only 740 miles an hour , or about 12 miles a minute . At the nearest point to the North Pole which man has yet reached , hills , icebergs , plains , and seas , are THE EQUATOR . 75.
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... reaching the Atlantic , the vast flood is fifty miles wide , and in mid - channel the opposite coasts are not visible . It seems more like a fresh - water sea than a river . At its mouth a vehement struggle takes place between the river ...
... reaching the Atlantic , the vast flood is fifty miles wide , and in mid - channel the opposite coasts are not visible . It seems more like a fresh - water sea than a river . At its mouth a vehement struggle takes place between the river ...
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Page 397 - I will wrong such honourable men. But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar ; I found it in his closet, 'tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament — Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds And dip their napkins...
Page 363 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. The pangs of despised love, the law's delay. The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Page 302 - We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 48 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he ; not...
Page 363 - To painful labour, both by sea and land; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience; — Too little payment for so great a debt.
Page 317 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 317 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.
Page 47 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 364 - twas wondrous pitiful. She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man; she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Page 95 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.