Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 3; Volume 66John Holmes Agnew, Henry T. Steele, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1866 |
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... feet . It stands on a pedestal in the style of the fourteenth century , designed by Luigi del Sarto ; with the simple but sufficient inscription : " To DANTE ALIGHIERI , ITALY , MDCCCLXV . " The like- ness , expression , and attitude of ...
... feet . It stands on a pedestal in the style of the fourteenth century , designed by Luigi del Sarto ; with the simple but sufficient inscription : " To DANTE ALIGHIERI , ITALY , MDCCCLXV . " The like- ness , expression , and attitude of ...
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... feet ten inches , remarkably straight and upright in his carriage , with a firm step and a cheerful , almost dashing , approach . " He had straight black hair , which he wore parted in the centre , a dark , but not pale complexion ...
... feet ten inches , remarkably straight and upright in his carriage , with a firm step and a cheerful , almost dashing , approach . " He had straight black hair , which he wore parted in the centre , a dark , but not pale complexion ...
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... feet below that of the ocean . lake basin , the whole of whose bed lies This great lake has always received below a certain level , or , in other the drainage of two great rivers , ( the words , at a certain mean distance from Volga and ...
... feet below that of the ocean . lake basin , the whole of whose bed lies This great lake has always received below a certain level , or , in other the drainage of two great rivers , ( the words , at a certain mean distance from Volga and ...
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... feet above the general level . In this wide area , which ranges from the Atlantic to the Pacific for a distance of at least fifteen hun- dred miles of latitude , there are no high lands . Here and there , indeed- frequently in the north ...
... feet above the general level . In this wide area , which ranges from the Atlantic to the Pacific for a distance of at least fifteen hun- dred miles of latitude , there are no high lands . Here and there , indeed- frequently in the north ...
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... feet , whose magnitude in that position renders it almost an anomaly among the lakes of the world . It might be thought from these ac- counts that lakes were universal phen- omena , so numerous and varied are the localities I have had ...
... feet , whose magnitude in that position renders it almost an anomaly among the lakes of the world . It might be thought from these ac- counts that lakes were universal phen- omena , so numerous and varied are the localities I have had ...
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Page 463 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 461 - Sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 68 - Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof ; that opened not the house of his prisoners...
Page 19 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 68 - The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof ; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Page 303 - This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Page 70 - He made darkness His secret place: His pavilion round about Him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 70 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
Page 68 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 69 - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit : A broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise. Do good in Thy good pleasure unto Zion : Build Thou the walls of Jerusalem.