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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... doubt , their superstitious faith was unquestion- able ; for , besides an orthodox belief in spells , magic , witches , and ghosts , it em- braced also fairies , brownies , bogles , and kelpies ; and remnants of this creed have held ...
... doubt , their superstitious faith was unquestion- able ; for , besides an orthodox belief in spells , magic , witches , and ghosts , it em- braced also fairies , brownies , bogles , and kelpies ; and remnants of this creed have held ...
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... doubt that this formed a separate chant in the recitation of the singers . But it bears evident marks of identity of authorship . The thirty - seventh Rune leads us back to Ilmarinen , who , having lost his wife , attempts to supply her ...
... doubt that this formed a separate chant in the recitation of the singers . But it bears evident marks of identity of authorship . The thirty - seventh Rune leads us back to Ilmarinen , who , having lost his wife , attempts to supply her ...
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... doubts whether. It is only to be hoped that England will take the part which becomes her in the elucidation of this unique produc- tion of the Turanian mind . Much ... doubt were raised about my novels being 1885 . 35 THE METHODS OF AUTHORS .
... doubts whether. It is only to be hoped that England will take the part which becomes her in the elucidation of this unique produc- tion of the Turanian mind . Much ... doubt were raised about my novels being 1885 . 35 THE METHODS OF AUTHORS .
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... doubt that the week or more which Archbishop Ledochowski spent at headquarters in Versailles in the winter of 1870 to 1871 forms a turning- point in modern history . When may we hope to learn the details of those secret interviews ...
... doubt that the week or more which Archbishop Ledochowski spent at headquarters in Versailles in the winter of 1870 to 1871 forms a turning- point in modern history . When may we hope to learn the details of those secret interviews ...
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... doubt he descried in the move- ment a chance for a diversion of the public mind from obnoxious topics . It was useful to him to produce an im- pression as if the export trade , stagnat- ing as it must under the baneful effects of modern ...
... doubt he descried in the move- ment a chance for a diversion of the public mind from obnoxious topics . It was useful to him to produce an im- pression as if the export trade , stagnat- ing as it must under the baneful effects of modern ...
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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.