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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... close , the poet intimates some of its mans , the priests and sorcerers of the main features and as showing the true Tartar and Mongolian tribes . Vaina- position and circumstances under which moimen is , in fact , the ideal of calm it ...
... close , the poet intimates some of its mans , the priests and sorcerers of the main features and as showing the true Tartar and Mongolian tribes . Vaina- position and circumstances under which moimen is , in fact , the ideal of calm it ...
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... close . The next Rune finds him in his own home , where he at once endeavors to persuade Ilmarinen to fulfil his own promise to the Queen of the North . This part of the subject is dealt with briefly ; but it is of importance , as ...
... close . The next Rune finds him in his own home , where he at once endeavors to persuade Ilmarinen to fulfil his own promise to the Queen of the North . This part of the subject is dealt with briefly ; but it is of importance , as ...
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... close of the poem ( Rune forty - nine ) . Ilmarinen first attempts to make a new sun and moon , but fails to supply them with light . Vainamoinen , again ascertaining by magic where the true moon and sun are hidden , determines on an ...
... close of the poem ( Rune forty - nine ) . Ilmarinen first attempts to make a new sun and moon , but fails to supply them with light . Vainamoinen , again ascertaining by magic where the true moon and sun are hidden , determines on an ...
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... close study of actual life , and his un- scrupulousness in reproducing its details almost without disguise . He frankly confesses that not only the characters in his political novels , but in his other works , are drawn straight from ...
... close study of actual life , and his un- scrupulousness in reproducing its details almost without disguise . He frankly confesses that not only the characters in his political novels , but in his other works , are drawn straight from ...
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... close the box , in which was the mouse , and spring to his feet , was the work of an instant . What is this that the sahib says ? What nonsense is this ? If the sahib can cure the Khan's pain , why send for me ? I am insulted . Let me ...
... close the box , in which was the mouse , and spring to his feet , was the work of an instant . What is this that the sahib says ? What nonsense is this ? If the sahib can cure the Khan's pain , why send for me ? I am insulted . Let me ...
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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.