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... tell when that torch shall be extinguished ? Who shall assure us what lands and nations shall be unconvulsed by the explosion of that widely - spreading train ? When shall the voices of those deadly engines be stilled ? When shall the ...
... tell when that torch shall be extinguished ? Who shall assure us what lands and nations shall be unconvulsed by the explosion of that widely - spreading train ? When shall the voices of those deadly engines be stilled ? When shall the ...
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... tell me what sort of a world this is , that you have been managing these twelve months ? " The Old Year shook his palsied , venerable head , but spoke not . " Come , dear old dad , don't be chary of your experiences . What a deal of ...
... tell me what sort of a world this is , that you have been managing these twelve months ? " The Old Year shook his palsied , venerable head , but spoke not . " Come , dear old dad , don't be chary of your experiences . What a deal of ...
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... tell which of us will be first of age ; I may die , or Esau , and then one of the others would step into our places . " " Upon my word , that's very true . Mr. Hucklebones , we were overlook- ing that fact altogether . " " I think so ...
... tell which of us will be first of age ; I may die , or Esau , and then one of the others would step into our places . " " Upon my word , that's very true . Mr. Hucklebones , we were overlook- ing that fact altogether . " " I think so ...
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... tell you what brings him here . This is Mr. Pinionwheel , the great chrono- metrician . You know , Mr. Levi , you said , time was of the essence of the contract , ' and so I thought it best to have the highest living authority upon that ...
... tell you what brings him here . This is Mr. Pinionwheel , the great chrono- metrician . You know , Mr. Levi , you said , time was of the essence of the contract , ' and so I thought it best to have the highest living authority upon that ...
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... telling that swarming hive of human beings that they had now entered upon an- other year of existence . THERE was a profound silence in the inner chamber of Mr. Reuben Levi during the short space in which Old Time , with his iron tongue ...
... telling that swarming hive of human beings that they had now entered upon an- other year of existence . THERE was a profound silence in the inner chamber of Mr. Reuben Levi during the short space in which Old Time , with his iron tongue ...
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Page 473 - The scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Page 467 - Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 572 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 296 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 97 - ... there is no border-land with him. You cannot hover with him upon the confines of truth, or wander in the maze of a probable argument. He always keeps the path. You cannot make excursions with him, for he sets you right. His taste never fluctuates. His morality never abates. He cannot compromise, or understand middle actions. There can be but a right and a wrong. His conversation is as a book. His affirmations have the sanctity of an oath. You must speak upon the square with him. He stops a metaphor...
Page 371 - But above all let us not be influenced by any angry feelings so far as to shut our eyes to the perception of what is really excellent and amiable in the English character. We are a young people, necessarily an imitative one, and must take our examples and models in a great degree from the existing nations of Europe. There is no country more worthy of our study than England.
Page 196 - A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again: The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
Page 319 - Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Page 97 - I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. They cannot like me — and in truth, I never knew one of that nation who attempted to do it.
Page 553 - ... to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...