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... hope like the common lists of killed and wounded . In Millin's National Antiquities of France , I find that M. Laverdy was in 1791 occupied in collecting whatever has been written concerning the Maid of Orleans . I have anxiously ...
... hope like the common lists of killed and wounded . In Millin's National Antiquities of France , I find that M. Laverdy was in 1791 occupied in collecting whatever has been written concerning the Maid of Orleans . I have anxiously ...
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... , but age , and youth unripe For slaughter yet , and widows , and young maids Of widow'd loves . And now with his high guest The Lord of Vaucouleur sat communing VOL . I. B On what might profit France , and knew no hope Book I 31 49.
... , but age , and youth unripe For slaughter yet , and widows , and young maids Of widow'd loves . And now with his high guest The Lord of Vaucouleur sat communing VOL . I. B On what might profit France , and knew no hope Book I 31 49.
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Robert Southey. On what might profit France , and knew no hope , Despairing of his country , when he heard An old man and a maid awaited him In the castle hall . He knew the old man well , His vassal Claude , and at his bidding Claude ...
Robert Southey. On what might profit France , and knew no hope , Despairing of his country , when he heard An old man and a maid awaited him In the castle hall . He knew the old man well , His vassal Claude , and at his bidding Claude ...
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... hope ! anon " Thou shalt hear tidings to rejoice thy heart , " Tidings of joy for all , but most for thee ! " Be this thy comfort ! " The old man received Her last embrace , and weeping like a child Scarcely thro ' tears could see them ...
... hope ! anon " Thou shalt hear tidings to rejoice thy heart , " Tidings of joy for all , but most for thee ! " Be this thy comfort ! " The old man received Her last embrace , and weeping like a child Scarcely thro ' tears could see them ...
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... hope " Of tidings from the war ; and as at eve " She with her mother by the cottage door " Sat in the sunshine , if a traveller " " Appear'd at distance coming o'er the brow , " Her eye was on him , and it might be seen " By the flush'd ...
... hope " Of tidings from the war ; and as at eve " She with her mother by the cottage door " Sat in the sunshine , if a traveller " " Appear'd at distance coming o'er the brow , " Her eye was on him , and it might be seen " By the flush'd ...
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Page 172 - Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee ; and before thou earnest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Page 173 - Thou therefore gird up thy loins and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee. Be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
Page 249 - Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of gdats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Page 249 - And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God ; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come ; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
Page 249 - Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18 that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 174 - O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: yea, unto him that is yet able to receive meat!
Page 238 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Page 173 - Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Page 251 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Page 242 - Dieu , je te prie que tu fasses aujourd'hui pour La Hire autant « que tu voudrois que La Hire fît pour toi , s'il étoit Dieu et que tu « fusses La Hire ! — Et il cuidoit très-bien prier et dire.