Littell's Living Age, Volume 19Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1848 |
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... better . They were to introduce the subject of human sacrifices and discourse there - book is the narrative after the failure of the expe- upon ; they were to buy land , with permission to build a fort or forts , paying what is called ...
... better . They were to introduce the subject of human sacrifices and discourse there - book is the narrative after the failure of the expe- upon ; they were to buy land , with permission to build a fort or forts , paying what is called ...
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... better judgment in his stanzas " After writing certain paraphrases from Hazlitt . " Why thus my idle efforts bound To clothing other's thoughts anew , While Nature from her breast profound Scatters a thousand themes around , And prompts ...
... better judgment in his stanzas " After writing certain paraphrases from Hazlitt . " Why thus my idle efforts bound To clothing other's thoughts anew , While Nature from her breast profound Scatters a thousand themes around , And prompts ...
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... better hands than those of Mr. Monckton Milnes . Mr. Milnes , it is true , had no personal knowledge of Keats , and his work must want those lively delineations of character and manners which can only be derived from actual observation ...
... better hands than those of Mr. Monckton Milnes . Mr. Milnes , it is true , had no personal knowledge of Keats , and his work must want those lively delineations of character and manners which can only be derived from actual observation ...
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... better than nothing . Land and sea , weakness and decline , are great separators ; but death is the great divorcer forever . When the pang of this thought has passed through my mind , I may say the bitterness of death is passed . I ...
... better than nothing . Land and sea , weakness and decline , are great separators ; but death is the great divorcer forever . When the pang of this thought has passed through my mind , I may say the bitterness of death is passed . I ...
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... better . Among the many things he has requested of me to - night , this is the principal - that on his grave- stone shall be this inscription , " Here lies one whose name was writ in water . " You will understand this so well that I ...
... better . Among the many things he has requested of me to - night , this is the principal - that on his grave- stone shall be this inscription , " Here lies one whose name was writ in water . " You will understand this so well that I ...
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Page 264 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 297 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 54 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 366 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Page 254 - I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 52 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 398 - And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to Thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
Page 264 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?
Page 363 - Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest !" He smiled and wept when he spoke these words.
Page 56 - Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands ; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord, and my God.