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... feet , thence declining gradually , and terminating in Europa Point , the southern extremity of Europe . The eastern section , which looks upon the Mediter- ranean , is either perfectly perpendicular , or else so steep and craggy as to ...
... feet , thence declining gradually , and terminating in Europa Point , the southern extremity of Europe . The eastern section , which looks upon the Mediter- ranean , is either perfectly perpendicular , or else so steep and craggy as to ...
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... feet . About me round I saw Hill , dale , and shady woods , and sunny plains , And liquid lapse of murmuring streams ; by these , Creatures that lived and moved , and walk'd or flew ; Birds on the branches warbling all things smiled ...
... feet . About me round I saw Hill , dale , and shady woods , and sunny plains , And liquid lapse of murmuring streams ; by these , Creatures that lived and moved , and walk'd or flew ; Birds on the branches warbling all things smiled ...
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... feet slip on the reedy floor , And I care not for the fall . I am willing to die when my time shall come , And I shall be glad to go ; For the world , at best , is a weary place , And my pulse is getting low ; But the grave is dark ...
... feet slip on the reedy floor , And I care not for the fall . I am willing to die when my time shall come , And I shall be glad to go ; For the world , at best , is a weary place , And my pulse is getting low ; But the grave is dark ...
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... feet in length , three in breadth , and as many in depth . This canoe is filled with salt water , in which the oysters are allowed to remain for twelve hours , in order that the putrid substance may become perfectly soft , and be thus ...
... feet in length , three in breadth , and as many in depth . This canoe is filled with salt water , in which the oysters are allowed to remain for twelve hours , in order that the putrid substance may become perfectly soft , and be thus ...
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... his great toe . The height of this notch from the ground is about two feet and a half , although it generally depends upon the individual ; for it is a remarkable fact that two blacks will not ascend by FIFTH MANCHESTER READER . 69.
... his great toe . The height of this notch from the ground is about two feet and a half , although it generally depends upon the individual ; for it is a remarkable fact that two blacks will not ascend by FIFTH MANCHESTER READER . 69.
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Page 67 - If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake ; 'tis true, this god did shake...
Page 67 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did, — The torrent roar'd ; and we did buffet it With lusty sinews ; throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy. But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried,
Page 9 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell...
Page 67 - I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 71 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 115 - It must be by his death: and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking.
Page 130 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, • And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding, which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, ) That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot! Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry, "God for Harry! England and Saint George!
Page 141 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood. Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Page 84 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Page 10 - And as they oft had heard apart, Sweet lessons of her forceful art. Each (for Madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power. First Fear his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewildered laid, And back recoiled, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made.