DECK AND PORT; OR INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS TO CALIFORNIA |
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... shadow fell . A few of them , better versed in lunar observations , explained to the rest the phenomenon . They said the earth had shoved a part of her black hull between us and the moon . But when asked why she had done this , the ...
... shadow fell . A few of them , better versed in lunar observations , explained to the rest the phenomenon . They said the earth had shoved a part of her black hull between us and the moon . But when asked why she had done this , the ...
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... shadows on thy farewell track , A whisper of thy bliss came floating back . It came too soft and low for Echo's breath , And died , with tender transport in its tone ; But ere it ceased , it reached the ear of Death , And shook the ...
... shadows on thy farewell track , A whisper of thy bliss came floating back . It came too soft and low for Echo's breath , And died , with tender transport in its tone ; But ere it ceased , it reached the ear of Death , And shook the ...
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... shadow . This position gives the moon a much greater apparent distance than it has when near the horizon . It now seems as some heaven - born sphere , that , having in vain tried to win you from the cares of earth , has gone back with ...
... shadow . This position gives the moon a much greater apparent distance than it has when near the horizon . It now seems as some heaven - born sphere , that , having in vain tried to win you from the cares of earth , has gone back with ...
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... shadows below . The whole bay is like a resplendent lake looking to heaven amid Alpine pinnacles . High above all soars the steep Corcovada , where plays the first blush of morn , and where the dying day lingers ; while the Organ ...
... shadows below . The whole bay is like a resplendent lake looking to heaven amid Alpine pinnacles . High above all soars the steep Corcovada , where plays the first blush of morn , and where the dying day lingers ; while the Organ ...
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... shadows of night , and sending up their exhalations , which are enough to make the man in the moon hold his nose . But let that pass . Flowers spring from corruption . Man pollutes , but nature purifies . A spirit of freedom is ...
... shadows of night , and sending up their exhalations , which are enough to make the man in the moon hold his nose . But let that pass . Flowers spring from corruption . Man pollutes , but nature purifies . A spirit of freedom is ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 204 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Página 284 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Página 85 - And this is in the night : most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight — A portion of the tempest, and of thee ! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black — and now the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Página 51 - ... looking for the general Resurrection in the last, day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose second coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the earth and the sea shall give up their dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his own glorious body; according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.
Página 79 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 190 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Página 322 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When...
Página 61 - ... immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace is found.
Página 402 - made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Página 75 - Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.