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... ancient town of Bruges , In the quaint old Flemish city , As the evening shades descended , Low and loud and sweetly blended , Low at times and loud at times , And changing like a poet's rhymes , Rang the beautiful wild chimes From the ...
... ancient town of Bruges , In the quaint old Flemish city , As the evening shades descended , Low and loud and sweetly blended , Low at times and loud at times , And changing like a poet's rhymes , Rang the beautiful wild chimes From the ...
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... ancient town of Bruges . " Those bells on this royal occasion must have pealed forth their most silvery notes and also their most clanging strokes . giving the " low " and the " loud " of the poet , for unaccount- ably they had not been ...
... ancient town of Bruges . " Those bells on this royal occasion must have pealed forth their most silvery notes and also their most clanging strokes . giving the " low " and the " loud " of the poet , for unaccount- ably they had not been ...
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... ancient tyrant insisted when he wanted to put his victims in as cramped a position as possible . When representative Prussians were advocating the retention of Belgium and north- ern France , and were claiming pretty much everything in ...
... ancient tyrant insisted when he wanted to put his victims in as cramped a position as possible . When representative Prussians were advocating the retention of Belgium and north- ern France , and were claiming pretty much everything in ...
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... ancient Venetians threw a circlet , a bridal wreath , of the country's most characteristic foliage , into the salt waves to symbolize the remarriage of Poland to the Baltic Sea . Italians assuredly with wide approval could continue what ...
... ancient Venetians threw a circlet , a bridal wreath , of the country's most characteristic foliage , into the salt waves to symbolize the remarriage of Poland to the Baltic Sea . Italians assuredly with wide approval could continue what ...
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... , and antedating the beginning of the Christian era , perhaps by four centuries . Older still is the Moabite Stone there , speaking of the " king of Israel " nine centuries before Christ , and yet more ancient is the [ 93 ] ROUND ABOUT ...
... , and antedating the beginning of the Christian era , perhaps by four centuries . Older still is the Moabite Stone there , speaking of the " king of Israel " nine centuries before Christ , and yet more ancient is the [ 93 ] ROUND ABOUT ...
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Page 173 - AND thou hast walked about, (how strange a story!) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And Time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous.
Page 263 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 280 - And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord ; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
Page 197 - Lo ! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.
Page 41 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Page 1 - We are living, we are dwelling In a grand and awful time; In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime!
Page 163 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 261 - Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 254 - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to Thee. 2 Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to Thee.
Page 279 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.