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... wish to read the best arti- members , of both sexes , who cannot fail to derive cles in the English periodicals , have only to sub- instruction and amusement from its regular peru- scribe to this excellent magazine . Again . This is sal ...
... wish to read the best arti- members , of both sexes , who cannot fail to derive cles in the English periodicals , have only to sub- instruction and amusement from its regular peru- scribe to this excellent magazine . Again . This is sal ...
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... wish them to be , who can - ficed all that is nourishing . There are some not discover that , however admirable the argument , they are still at perfect libery to dissent . There is , however , even in these days a section of works ...
... wish them to be , who can - ficed all that is nourishing . There are some not discover that , however admirable the argument , they are still at perfect libery to dissent . There is , however , even in these days a section of works ...
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... wish this beautiful character to live in the hearts of all children . German Popular Tales , translated from Grimm . An exquisite book for children , and one far sur- passing in every way the many recently published German collections ...
... wish this beautiful character to live in the hearts of all children . German Popular Tales , translated from Grimm . An exquisite book for children , and one far sur- passing in every way the many recently published German collections ...
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... wish they had an equally accurate yet more euphonious 99 Although this structure seems to have been noted in an unpublished memoir by M. Guyot , of Neuf - name , ) had a definite position upon the glacier , châtel , some years ago , as ...
... wish they had an equally accurate yet more euphonious 99 Although this structure seems to have been noted in an unpublished memoir by M. Guyot , of Neuf - name , ) had a definite position upon the glacier , châtel , some years ago , as ...
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... wish to try a near cut to Cha- mouni — that is , by crossing the shoulder of Mont Blanc , and descending to the Mer de Glace by the passage of the Col du Géant . The great moun- tain mass of which Mont Blanc and its tributary group ...
... wish to try a near cut to Cha- mouni — that is , by crossing the shoulder of Mont Blanc , and descending to the Mer de Glace by the passage of the Col du Géant . The great moun- tain mass of which Mont Blanc and its tributary group ...
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Page 201 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 192 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Page 148 - That first excites desire, and then supplies ; Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.
Page 135 - When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it, and slily whispered me, ' Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur ISTIS.
Page 64 - Good angels lead thee ! Set thy sails warily, Tempests will come ; Steer thy course steadily : Christian, steer home ! Look to the weather-bow, Breakers are round thee ; Let fall the plummet now, Shallows may ground thee. Reef in the foresail, there ! Hold the helm fast ! So — let the vessel wear — There swept the blast. "What of the night, watchman?
Page 223 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou are a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 149 - And as he's running by, Follow him with my eye, Scarcely believing that — he is not there. I know his face is hid Under the coffin lid ; Closed are his eyes; cold is his forehead fair; My hand that marble felt ; O'er it in prayer I knelt ; Yet my heart whispers that — he is not there.
Page 105 - Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap ; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them : how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Page 87 - DRESSES AND DECORATIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES, from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries. 94 Plates, beautifully Coloured, a profusion of Initial Letters, and Examples of Curious Ornament, with Historical Introduction and Descriptive Text.
Page 224 - Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings.