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... interesting part of animated nature . In The Port Folio , I met with a little history of " Marine birds , " highly gratifying to my curiosity and taste ; it was a trans- lation from the French . I have sought in vain , for further ...
... interesting part of animated nature . In The Port Folio , I met with a little history of " Marine birds , " highly gratifying to my curiosity and taste ; it was a trans- lation from the French . I have sought in vain , for further ...
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... interesting fable . Yet Spenser gave the preference to the former ; a fact so extraordinary , con- sidering his abilities in other respects , that we cannot account for it , without supposing it to have been partly the effect of a bias ...
... interesting fable . Yet Spenser gave the preference to the former ; a fact so extraordinary , con- sidering his abilities in other respects , that we cannot account for it , without supposing it to have been partly the effect of a bias ...
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... interesting stories and amusing api - ed the most elegant , of the Fables of logues are repeated , and odes , gay or voluptuous are sung . Poets rehearse their works , and Fabulists task their invention . Arabia abounds with these ...
... interesting stories and amusing api - ed the most elegant , of the Fables of logues are repeated , and odes , gay or voluptuous are sung . Poets rehearse their works , and Fabulists task their invention . Arabia abounds with these ...
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... interesting action of the war between Afrasiab , King of Tou- ran , or the country to the north of the Oxus , and the Sultans of Iran , or Persia , of the Race of Cainides . Afrasiab had invaded the Persian empire , over which he ...
... interesting action of the war between Afrasiab , King of Tou- ran , or the country to the north of the Oxus , and the Sultans of Iran , or Persia , of the Race of Cainides . Afrasiab had invaded the Persian empire , over which he ...
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... interesting adventures , among which , is not forgotten that of the Hero's horse called Bakkche , or Lightning , who protecting the sleep of his master , killed a Lion , who had sprung from the forest to devour him . In the second Canto ...
... interesting adventures , among which , is not forgotten that of the Hero's horse called Bakkche , or Lightning , who protecting the sleep of his master , killed a Lion , who had sprung from the forest to devour him . In the second Canto ...
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Seite 31 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Seite 98 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Seite 235 - Old Kaspar took it from the boy Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh "Tis some poor fellow's skull,' said he, 'Who fell in the great victory.
Seite 132 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Seite 217 - Celestial odours breathe through purpled air; And wings, whose colours glitter'd on the day, Wide at his back their gradual plumes display. The form ethereal bursts upon his sight, And moves in all the majesty of light...
Seite 235 - It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
Seite 296 - Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail. For the joy of each sex, on the world I'll bestow it. This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet ; Though a mixture so odd, he shall merit great fame, And among brother mortals — be GOLDSMITH his name : When on earth this...
Seite 98 - But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet.
Seite 294 - His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation of whatever chanced to be thrown upon it. No deep root could be struck. The oak of the forest did not grow there ; but the elegant shrubbery and the fragrant parterre appeared in gay succession.
Seite 152 - that if ever " there was a good Christian, without knowing himself " to be so, it was Dr. Garth," seems not able to deny what he is angry to hear, and loth to confess.