The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Band 8Joseph Shackell, 1832 |
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... feeling , as now and then he glanced upon his intended victim . The ruddy sun - light still rest- ed upon the bosom of the valley - fall- ing full upon the figures of the bound and kneeling Covenanter , and the fair- haired girl , who ...
... feeling , as now and then he glanced upon his intended victim . The ruddy sun - light still rest- ed upon the bosom of the valley - fall- ing full upon the figures of the bound and kneeling Covenanter , and the fair- haired girl , who ...
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... feeling ; and she went on : - " Such is my condition -- can there be one more truly hopeless ? I love my mother , and am dear to her ; should she die - the thought makes me tremble for us both . In my tribulation , I made known the ...
... feeling ; and she went on : - " Such is my condition -- can there be one more truly hopeless ? I love my mother , and am dear to her ; should she die - the thought makes me tremble for us both . In my tribulation , I made known the ...
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... feelings dictated , he determined to watch them . With stealthy step he hastened to screen himself from observation , behind one of the trees that shadowed the river's banks . The moon shot her resplendant rays full on the groupe , and ...
... feelings dictated , he determined to watch them . With stealthy step he hastened to screen himself from observation , behind one of the trees that shadowed the river's banks . The moon shot her resplendant rays full on the groupe , and ...
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... feeling him- self overpowered by the blow , and that the messenger of death had seized him , raised his voice amidst the din of ele- ments , cursing aloud with his dying breath both Allah and his prophet ; but his wicked spirit soon ...
... feeling him- self overpowered by the blow , and that the messenger of death had seized him , raised his voice amidst the din of ele- ments , cursing aloud with his dying breath both Allah and his prophet ; but his wicked spirit soon ...
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... feelings . If we examine the fine pas- sages in Lord Byron's dramas , —the de- scription of Rome , for example , in Man- fred , -the description of a Venetian revel in Marino Faliero , -the dying invective which the old Doge pronoun ...
... feelings . If we examine the fine pas- sages in Lord Byron's dramas , —the de- scription of Rome , for example , in Man- fred , -the description of a Venetian revel in Marino Faliero , -the dying invective which the old Doge pronoun ...
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Seite 269 - But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Seite 233 - Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London...
Seite 107 - And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me : neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem : neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
Seite 234 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
Seite 223 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Seite 259 - Now, King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch...
Seite 269 - Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Seite 106 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Seite 80 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Seite 260 - King Henry, making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground.