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... land of Revolution , that grows the tricolor ; after him in the chase , and who , with all the rest of the company , was now hardly able to stand . The clear atmosphere of Italy , its sunny , drowsy landscape , and what can be seen from ...
... land of Revolution , that grows the tricolor ; after him in the chase , and who , with all the rest of the company , was now hardly able to stand . The clear atmosphere of Italy , its sunny , drowsy landscape , and what can be seen from ...
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... land was doubtful ; Edinburgh Castle held out ; and he had yet to try the mettle of the robust Highlanders . Ireland , moreover , was the strong- hold of his foe ; and his partisans barely re- tained a corner in which they stood at bay ...
... land was doubtful ; Edinburgh Castle held out ; and he had yet to try the mettle of the robust Highlanders . Ireland , moreover , was the strong- hold of his foe ; and his partisans barely re- tained a corner in which they stood at bay ...
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... land of others than in tilling his own . The religion of the greater part of the Highlands was a rude mixture of Popery and Paganism . The symbol of redemption was associated with heathen sacrifices and incantations . Baptized men ...
... land of others than in tilling his own . The religion of the greater part of the Highlands was a rude mixture of Popery and Paganism . The symbol of redemption was associated with heathen sacrifices and incantations . Baptized men ...
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... land- owners had recently fortified in the three southern provinces could no longer be defended . Many families submitted , delivered up their arms , and thought them- selves happy in escaping with life . But many resolute and high ...
... land- owners had recently fortified in the three southern provinces could no longer be defended . Many families submitted , delivered up their arms , and thought them- selves happy in escaping with life . But many resolute and high ...
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... land which , in an age of violence , has given itself up to the study of the graceful and the beautiful , to the neglect of those hardy virtues which can alone secure a nation's independence . Do we not trace in this Filicaia's ...
... land which , in an age of violence , has given itself up to the study of the graceful and the beautiful , to the neglect of those hardy virtues which can alone secure a nation's independence . Do we not trace in this Filicaia's ...
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Seite 18 - It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little...
Seite 18 - I loved you, Evelyn, all the while ! My heart seemed full as it could hold ; There was place and to spare for the frank young smile, And the red young mouth, and the hair's young gold. So, hush, — I will give you this leaf to keep : See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ! There, that is our secret : go to sleep ! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Seite 18 - EVELYN HOPE Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead ! Sit and watch by her side an hour. That is her book-shelf, this her bed; She plucked that piece of geranium-flower, Beginning to die too, in the glass; Little has yet been changed, I think : The shutters are shut, no light may pass Save two long rays through the hinge's chink.
Seite 230 - But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
Seite 19 - A moment after, and hands unseen Were hanging the night around us fast; But we knew that a bar was broken between Life and life: we were mixed at last In spite of the mortal screen.
Seite 27 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on...
Seite 205 - On the whole, we make too much of faults; the details of the business hide the real centre of it. Faults ? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Seite 264 - ANALOGUE." — A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. " HOMOLOGUE." — The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function f.
Seite 17 - Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe Long ago; Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and that shame alike, the gold Bought and sold.
Seite 19 - Be hate that fruit or love that fruit, It forwards the general deed of man, And each of the Many helps to recruit The life of the race by a general plan ; Each living his own, to boot.