Littell's Living Age, Volume 23Living Age Company Incorporated, 1849 |
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... scarcely a new plant : and when lately we were authentically told of a real wonder , in the shape of a sea - serpent , one half the world arose in its wrath at the attempt upon its organ of wonder , and at the assault upon its firm ...
... scarcely a new plant : and when lately we were authentically told of a real wonder , in the shape of a sea - serpent , one half the world arose in its wrath at the attempt upon its organ of wonder , and at the assault upon its firm ...
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... scarcely knew what to observe , and certainly has not turned the rare advantages com- mitted to him to all the account of which they would have been susceptible in the hands of a more literate traveller . Oh , that Dr. Robinson or Eli ...
... scarcely knew what to observe , and certainly has not turned the rare advantages com- mitted to him to all the account of which they would have been susceptible in the hands of a more literate traveller . Oh , that Dr. Robinson or Eli ...
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... scarcely yet been dried up by the prevailing heat , or absorbed by the surrounding earth . But we Yankee boys , & c . The The first difficulty of a practical nature was how to get the boats across to the Sea of Tiberias . The copper ...
... scarcely yet been dried up by the prevailing heat , or absorbed by the surrounding earth . But we Yankee boys , & c . The The first difficulty of a practical nature was how to get the boats across to the Sea of Tiberias . The copper ...
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... scarcely bring forth fruit to part of Palestine . The surface of the sea ( says Lieutenant Lynch ) was one wide sheet of phosphorescent foam , and the waves , as they broke upon the shore , threw a se- pulchral light upon the dead ...
... scarcely bring forth fruit to part of Palestine . The surface of the sea ( says Lieutenant Lynch ) was one wide sheet of phosphorescent foam , and the waves , as they broke upon the shore , threw a se- pulchral light upon the dead ...
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... scarcely needs the confirmation which our explor- ers afford . Their long stay on the lake enabled them , however , to put together a greater number of practical illustrations of the fact . We will put a few of them together from both ...
... scarcely needs the confirmation which our explor- ers afford . Their long stay on the lake enabled them , however , to put together a greater number of practical illustrations of the fact . We will put a few of them together from both ...
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Página 373 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Página 400 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Página 395 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Página 373 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Página 401 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Página 380 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Página 401 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Página 141 - Had in her sober 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...
Página 380 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Página 400 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...