Once a Week, Volume 2; Volume 15Eneas Sweetland Dallas Bradbury and Evans, 1866 - England |
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... light appearing Steals into a quiet bay . Poets ' dream of fields Elysian , Poets ' dream of Paradise , Ne'er surpass'd that glorious vision— That first view that met their eyes , Of Eldorado . Nature on that lovely region Casts her ...
... light appearing Steals into a quiet bay . Poets ' dream of fields Elysian , Poets ' dream of Paradise , Ne'er surpass'd that glorious vision— That first view that met their eyes , Of Eldorado . Nature on that lovely region Casts her ...
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... light , here is a wretched place for a great emperor to be born in ; and then I re- membered that Jesus Christ , the King of Kings , had chosen to be born in a stable , to teach us the beautiful lesson of humility . " When Marchin left ...
... light , here is a wretched place for a great emperor to be born in ; and then I re- membered that Jesus Christ , the King of Kings , had chosen to be born in a stable , to teach us the beautiful lesson of humility . " When Marchin left ...
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... light of hope and simple faith . " Since the designs of Providence are in- scrutable , I know not what may still be in store for me . I am resolved to wait with submission and respect for whatever He may please to send me , and to obey ...
... light of hope and simple faith . " Since the designs of Providence are in- scrutable , I know not what may still be in store for me . I am resolved to wait with submission and respect for whatever He may please to send me , and to obey ...
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... light , mingled with the smoke , and a few minutes afterwards the whole column became blacker and larger ; almost immediately after- wards several successive eruptions of lurid fire rose up amidst the smoke ; they subsided , and the ...
... light , mingled with the smoke , and a few minutes afterwards the whole column became blacker and larger ; almost immediately after- wards several successive eruptions of lurid fire rose up amidst the smoke ; they subsided , and the ...
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... light was perceptible on the sur- face of the sea . At three o'clock in the morning red flames were seen in the focus of the volcanic action , and the smoke became more dense , as well as of a darker hue . These flames , which rose and ...
... light was perceptible on the sur- face of the sea . At three o'clock in the morning red flames were seen in the focus of the volcanic action , and the smoke became more dense , as well as of a darker hue . These flames , which rose and ...
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Page 44 - Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Page 363 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 178 - There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy.
Page 86 - I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee...
Page 251 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Page 230 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Page 444 - Sir . . . Dayrell, of Littlecote, in Corn. Wilts, having gott his lady's waiting-woman with child, when her travell came, sent a servant with a horse for a midwife, whom he was to bring hoodwinked. She was brought, and layd the woman, but as soon as the child was...
Page 210 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Page 417 - Thou cheerful Bee ! come, freely come, And travel round my woodbine bower ! Delight me with thy wandering hum, And rouse me from my musing hour ; Oh ! try no more those tedious fields, Come taste the sweets my garden yields : The treasures of each blooming mine, The bud, the blossom, — all are thine.
Page 201 - Be ye certain all seems love, Viewed from Allah's throne above; Be ye stout of heart, and come Bravely onward to your home! La Allah ilia Allah!