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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Page 49
... kind can be transacted . But to convert the in- land Philistines - that vast majority of Germans who have never sniffed sea - air -into enthusiasts for a colonial empire required all Bismarck's ability and pres- tige . No doubt he ...
... kind can be transacted . But to convert the in- land Philistines - that vast majority of Germans who have never sniffed sea - air -into enthusiasts for a colonial empire required all Bismarck's ability and pres- tige . No doubt he ...
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... kind of fiddle , and a sort of guitar ; while an old man made night hideous by drumming on a horrible kind of military drum called a dohōl , a thing that I have seen , except on this occa- sion , used at Eastern weddings only . Happily ...
... kind of fiddle , and a sort of guitar ; while an old man made night hideous by drumming on a horrible kind of military drum called a dohōl , a thing that I have seen , except on this occa- sion , used at Eastern weddings only . Happily ...
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... Kind Goddess , Safety ; Nymphs four plead with thee , Thou to their Queen will reconciled be : And , as thou hast reduced her to health ( More valuable far than richest wealth ) , So in her breast , thou wilt thyself enshrine , For ...
... Kind Goddess , Safety ; Nymphs four plead with thee , Thou to their Queen will reconciled be : And , as thou hast reduced her to health ( More valuable far than richest wealth ) , So in her breast , thou wilt thyself enshrine , For ...
Page 101
... kind of stupidity about this place , " says she , writing a few days after her arrival , as froze my very blood . I entered the great gates with the same kind of feeling as I should have it I was going into the Bastille . " Had her ...
... kind of stupidity about this place , " says she , writing a few days after her arrival , as froze my very blood . I entered the great gates with the same kind of feeling as I should have it I was going into the Bastille . " Had her ...
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... kind of interest ; but the intellectual charm of war extends much further than this . Wars which are not ours interest us nearly as much as wars which are . Scores of thousands of Englishmen followed the great Ameri- can Civil War with ...
... kind of interest ; but the intellectual charm of war extends much further than this . Wars which are not ours interest us nearly as much as wars which are . Scores of thousands of Englishmen followed the great Ameri- can Civil War with ...
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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.