Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 42; Volume 105John Holmes Agnew, Henry T. Steele, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1885 |
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... asked to fight in a moving square after an ex- hausting night march of sixteen hours and with empty stomachs . Whether he made a mistake in not advancing at all risks on the Nile and accepting battle on one of the rolling gravel hills ...
... asked to fight in a moving square after an ex- hausting night march of sixteen hours and with empty stomachs . Whether he made a mistake in not advancing at all risks on the Nile and accepting battle on one of the rolling gravel hills ...
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... asked what that opinion is ) , he will be rejected . This precaution belongs to a period when newspapers were few , and the means of distributing them scanty ; when one who desired information about a case would have to go and seek it ...
... asked what that opinion is ) , he will be rejected . This precaution belongs to a period when newspapers were few , and the means of distributing them scanty ; when one who desired information about a case would have to go and seek it ...
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... asked grace at a graceless face , But there is nane for my men and me . But had I kenn'd ere 1 cam fra hame , How thou unkind wadst been to me ! I wad have keepit the Border side , In spite of all thy force and thee . " Johnnie ...
... asked grace at a graceless face , But there is nane for my men and me . But had I kenn'd ere 1 cam fra hame , How thou unkind wadst been to me ! I wad have keepit the Border side , In spite of all thy force and thee . " Johnnie ...
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... asked him how he dared to undertake an enterprise so desperate and presumptuous ? " What is there , swered Buccleuch , " that a man dares not do ? " Upon which the Queen ob- served , " With ten thousand such men our brother of Scotland ...
... asked him how he dared to undertake an enterprise so desperate and presumptuous ? " What is there , swered Buccleuch , " that a man dares not do ? " Upon which the Queen ob- served , " With ten thousand such men our brother of Scotland ...
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... Asked Why thus this birch so slender Hast thou left alone uninjured ? ' Then said ancient Vainamoinen : ' It is for this the birch remaineth That to full growth it attaining , May give thee place for cheerful singing . Cry out here ...
... Asked Why thus this birch so slender Hast thou left alone uninjured ? ' Then said ancient Vainamoinen : ' It is for this the birch remaineth That to full growth it attaining , May give thee place for cheerful singing . Cry out here ...
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Page 333 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 521 - In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 521 - A murderer and a villain ; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen.
Page 141 - Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Page 161 - Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
Page 523 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Page 301 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 521 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown: The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down.
Page 522 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Page 161 - This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need ; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare ; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.