Favorite Authors in Prose and PoetryJames Thomas Fields James R. Osgood, 1884 |
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... army , or their midnight visits to lonely houses , lawless and terrific as the descent of pirates or the incursions of banditti ; — all brought close to us a state of things which we never thought to have witnessed in peaceful and happy ...
... army , or their midnight visits to lonely houses , lawless and terrific as the descent of pirates or the incursions of banditti ; — all brought close to us a state of things which we never thought to have witnessed in peaceful and happy ...
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... army , is far more to be honored than the con- queror of Zama . This we should the more carefully bear in mind , because our tendency is to admire individual great- ness far more than national ; and as no single Roman will bear ...
... army , is far more to be honored than the con- queror of Zama . This we should the more carefully bear in mind , because our tendency is to admire individual great- ness far more than national ; and as no single Roman will bear ...
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... army to visit Gades , and there , in the temple of the supreme god of Tyre , and all the colonies of Tyre , to offer his prayers and vows for the success of his enterprise . He was attended only by those immediately attached to his ...
... army to visit Gades , and there , in the temple of the supreme god of Tyre , and all the colonies of Tyre , to offer his prayers and vows for the success of his enterprise . He was attended only by those immediately attached to his ...
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... army , and a fleet of 160 quinqueremes , was to cross over to Lilybæum , and from thence , if circumstances fa- vored , to make a descent on Africa . A third army , con- sisting also of two Roman legions , and 11,000 of the allies , was ...
... army , and a fleet of 160 quinqueremes , was to cross over to Lilybæum , and from thence , if circumstances fa- vored , to make a descent on Africa . A third army , con- sisting also of two Roman legions , and 11,000 of the allies , was ...
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... army should again be completed by new levies . Thus , he cannot have left Rome till late in the summer ; and when he arrived with his fleet and army at the mouth of the eastern branch of the Rhone , he found that Hannibal had crossed ...
... army should again be completed by new levies . Thus , he cannot have left Rome till late in the summer ; and when he arrived with his fleet and army at the mouth of the eastern branch of the Rhone , he found that Hannibal had crossed ...
Términos y frases comunes
army Ashen Fagot Avenly beautiful Belle Bill called Carthage Carthaginian cheer child CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Christmas Churm Cisalpine Gaul Damer David Hume dear Doon Hill door dreams Druids Dunderbunk Easedale eyes face father fear feel Fingalian fire Gauls girls goblin golden Grasmere hand Hannibal head heard heart heaven hills horse hour Italy Kendrick knew lady Laura light live Lizzie look Lord Mabel mind morning mother natural never night Oliver Cromwell once painter perhaps Perry Philip Owen picture poor portrait Purtett Pyrenees Rembrandt Reynolds Rhone Ringdove river round Saguntum Sarah Green seemed shepherd side skating sleep smile snow soul spirit stood sweet Tarbox tell thee things thou thought tion Titian told took turned voice vrom Wade walk wife wish woman young
Pasajes populares
Página 177 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags^ Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich! — She sang the
Página 320 - Comes a still voice : — yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course. Nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again ; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod,...
Página 113 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave, something so written, to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 325 - A tory! a tory! a spy! a refugee! hustle him! away with him!" It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order; and, having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came there for, and whom he was seeking? The poor man humbly assured him that he meant no harm, but merely came there in search of some of his neighbors, who used to keep about the tavern. "Well — who are they? — name them.
Página 177 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Página 271 - Look on the rising sun : there God does live, And gives His light, and gives His heat away, And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. ' And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love ; And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
Página 115 - God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church, to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Página 324 - Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper. In place of these, a lean, bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens...
Página 230 - EVE — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold: Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seemed taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith.
Página 81 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the Name of the Lord ! — "His Highness," says Harvey,3 "being at Hampton Court, sickened a little before the Lady Elizabeth died.