Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 56Macmillan and Company, 1887 |
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... give way and dissolve in the convul- sion of the elements . The far - spring- ing arches of streaming light blazed higher and higher , and struck wide circles in the black air , eclipsing in their matchless radiance the bright lamps ...
... give way and dissolve in the convul- sion of the elements . The far - spring- ing arches of streaming light blazed higher and higher , and struck wide circles in the black air , eclipsing in their matchless radiance the bright lamps ...
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... give him a funeral with even more than grand - ducal measure of lugubrious magnificence . The place of his repose was marked out for him , as officiously as if it had been the delimitation of a kingdom , in the ducal burial - vault ...
... give him a funeral with even more than grand - ducal measure of lugubrious magnificence . The place of his repose was marked out for him , as officiously as if it had been the delimitation of a kingdom , in the ducal burial - vault ...
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... give the desired answer . : The girl , otherwise so self - denying , and still modestly anxious for a private union , not to shame his high position in the world , had wished for one thing at least to be loved amid the splen- dours ...
... give the desired answer . : The girl , otherwise so self - denying , and still modestly anxious for a private union , not to shame his high position in the world , had wished for one thing at least to be loved amid the splen- dours ...
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... give way , and that we must be buried in the ruins . din was terrific , but above all one heard the harsh roar of the earthquake -a hideous sound , like the frightful cry of some mighty beast . Indeed the The motion was so violent , we ...
... give way , and that we must be buried in the ruins . din was terrific , but above all one heard the harsh roar of the earthquake -a hideous sound , like the frightful cry of some mighty beast . Indeed the The motion was so violent , we ...
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... give twelve stoje , or trays of worms when they are full grown . Eight days after their first sleep the worms again sleep for twenty - four hours , and change their skins for the second time . They evidently suffer at each change of ...
... give twelve stoje , or trays of worms when they are full grown . Eight days after their first sleep the worms again sleep for twenty - four hours , and change their skins for the second time . They evidently suffer at each change of ...
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Page 75 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Page 314 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 340 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 340 - O attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Page 337 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Page 71 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth...
Page 408 - And in far other scenes! For I was reared In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars.
Page 340 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 72 - And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element! O pure of heart! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be! What, and wherein it doth exist, This light, this glory, this fair luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power.
Page 73 - Tis of the rushing of an host in rout, With groans, of trampled men, with smarting wounds — At once they groan with pain, and shudder with the cold ! But hush ! there is a pause of deepest silence...