Chesson & Woodhall's Miscellany, Teil 132,Band 1Chesson & Woodhall, 1861 |
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... feet . On the top- most edge of this scarp , walls are built , as frequently weakening as strength- ening the natural fortification ; and at certain accessible places , where perhaps a spur leads up from the plain , massive gates are ...
... feet . On the top- most edge of this scarp , walls are built , as frequently weakening as strength- ening the natural fortification ; and at certain accessible places , where perhaps a spur leads up from the plain , massive gates are ...
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... feet above the plain ; rising again above which is a series of abrupt precipices of from 80 to 100 feet high , so wonder- fully scarped that only the great num- of them - more than is necessary for the defence of the country - prevents ...
... feet above the plain ; rising again above which is a series of abrupt precipices of from 80 to 100 feet high , so wonder- fully scarped that only the great num- of them - more than is necessary for the defence of the country - prevents ...
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... feet above the sea- level . I knew the sunrise would give me a fine prospect , and I was not dis- appointed . Below , to the northward , lay a ruck of hills , sinking into the great plain of the Godavery - the great rocks of Trimbuck ...
... feet above the sea- level . I knew the sunrise would give me a fine prospect , and I was not dis- appointed . Below , to the northward , lay a ruck of hills , sinking into the great plain of the Godavery - the great rocks of Trimbuck ...
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... feet like cold white lava ; each flake soon gilded , and then dissolved , by the rising sun . This When Sivaji had ... feet , reached only by goat- paths from the jungle ) , there rises above them a perpendicular rock , crowned with ...
... feet like cold white lava ; each flake soon gilded , and then dissolved , by the rising sun . This When Sivaji had ... feet , reached only by goat- paths from the jungle ) , there rises above them a perpendicular rock , crowned with ...
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... feet in almost perpendicular descent , which renders any wall or fortification superfluous . The gates and offices were built by Abbaji Sonedeo . All the pageantry of royal state was once enacted on that now desolate rock . Near it , on ...
... feet in almost perpendicular descent , which renders any wall or fortification superfluous . The gates and offices were built by Abbaji Sonedeo . All the pageantry of royal state was once enacted on that now desolate rock . Near it , on ...
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Seite 381 - Though the day of my destiny's over, , And the star of my fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find; Though thy soul with my grief was acquainted, It shrunk not to share it with me, And the love which my spirit hath painted It never hath found but in thee.
Seite 28 - Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth! Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth!
Seite 381 - Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.
Seite 312 - Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
Seite 373 - All his excellences, like those of Nature herself, are thrown out together ; and, instead of interfering with, support and recommend each other. His flowers are not tied up in garlands, nor his fruits crushed into baskets — but spring living from the soil, in all the dew and freshness of youth...
Seite 392 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Seite 392 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Seite 408 - Tis a melancholy daub! my Lord; not one principle of the pyramid in any one group! — and what a price! — for there is nothing of the colouring of Titian — the expression of Rubens — the grace of Raphael — the purity of Dominichino — the corregiescity of Corregio — the learning of Poussin — the airs of Guido — the taste of the Carrachis — or the grand contour of Angelo.
Seite 119 - ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished...
Seite 178 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...