Choice Literature, Volume 1J. B. Alden, 1880 - Choice literature |
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... once happened during the performance of Pizarro . Elvira is discovered asleep upon a couch , gracefully covered by a rich velvet cloak ; Valverde enters , kneels and kisses her hand ; Elvira awakes , rises and lets fall the covering ...
... once happened during the performance of Pizarro . Elvira is discovered asleep upon a couch , gracefully covered by a rich velvet cloak ; Valverde enters , kneels and kisses her hand ; Elvira awakes , rises and lets fall the covering ...
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... once , and scorned to countenance an imposition . Furious with passion , the villain rushed at him , drew him up on his hind legs , clasped him in his arms , then fell upon the stage and writhed in frightful agonies , shrieking ...
... once , and scorned to countenance an imposition . Furious with passion , the villain rushed at him , drew him up on his hind legs , clasped him in his arms , then fell upon the stage and writhed in frightful agonies , shrieking ...
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... once struck by its Assyrian character . The lions in form and attitude belong to Assyria , and the pillar against which they rest may be seen in the bas - reliefs brought from Nineveh . Here , at all events , there was clear proof of ...
... once struck by its Assyrian character . The lions in form and attitude belong to Assyria , and the pillar against which they rest may be seen in the bas - reliefs brought from Nineveh . Here , at all events , there was clear proof of ...
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... once in the Iliad ; * elsewhere it is Si- don and the Sidonians that represented them , never Tyre . † Such pas- sages , therefore , cannot belong to the epoch of Tyrian supremacy , which goes back , at all events , to the age of David ...
... once in the Iliad ; * elsewhere it is Si- don and the Sidonians that represented them , never Tyre . † Such pas- sages , therefore , cannot belong to the epoch of Tyrian supremacy , which goes back , at all events , to the age of David ...
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... once been inhabited by Speaker Onslow . Here he set up his Museum , and began to lecture on anatomy , having for a long time , he writes , scarcely forty pupils to lecture to . During all the later portion of its history Leicester ...
... once been inhabited by Speaker Onslow . Here he set up his Museum , and began to lecture on anatomy , having for a long time , he writes , scarcely forty pupils to lecture to . During all the later portion of its history Leicester ...
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Page 386 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Page 16 - And it is our further will that, so far as may be, our subjects, of whatever race or creed, be freely and impartially admitted to offices in our service, the duties of which they may be qualified, by their education, ability, and integrity, duly to discharge.
Page 466 - Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the King of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Page 530 - He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord ; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
Page 466 - And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him ; and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.
Page 434 - I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
Page 491 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 657 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 389 - It is charged and we fire, and they run. Praise to our Indian brothers, and let the dark face have his due! Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few, Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them and slew, That ever upon the topmost roof our banner in India blew. Men will forget what we suffer and not what we do. We can fight! But to be soldier all day and be sentinel all thro' the night — Ever the mine and assault, our sallies, their lying alarms.
Page 159 - Midst others of less note came one frail form, A phantom among men, companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm, Whose thunder is its knell.