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... soon Brightened with jòy ; for murmurings from within Were heard - sonorous cadences ! whereby , To his belief , the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.- Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith ...
... soon Brightened with jòy ; for murmurings from within Were heard - sonorous cadences ! whereby , To his belief , the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.- Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith ...
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... soon have passed , our own human duration . We bid you wèlcome to this pleasant land of the Fathers . We bid you welcome to the healthful skies and the verdant fields of New England . We greet your accession to the great inheritance ...
... soon have passed , our own human duration . We bid you wèlcome to this pleasant land of the Fathers . We bid you welcome to the healthful skies and the verdant fields of New England . We greet your accession to the great inheritance ...
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... soon , " said his courtiers : and still Elliot's guns thundered ' defi- ance from the Rock . 13th of September , the The ten battering - ships At length , on the morning of the grand and decisive attack commenced . bore down in ...
... soon , " said his courtiers : and still Elliot's guns thundered ' defi- ance from the Rock . 13th of September , the The ten battering - ships At length , on the morning of the grand and decisive attack commenced . bore down in ...
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... soon com- municated itself to the whole line . The fire of the battering- ships gradually slackened : that of the garrison , on the contrary , seemed to become more animated and tremendous . It was kept up during the entire night . At ...
... soon com- municated itself to the whole line . The fire of the battering- ships gradually slackened : that of the garrison , on the contrary , seemed to become more animated and tremendous . It was kept up during the entire night . At ...
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... soon after this siege - between 1786 and 1789. Where the slope was too steep to admit of external forts , subterranean galleries were excavated in the solid rock . These galleries , which are chiefly on the north and north - west , are ...
... soon after this siege - between 1786 and 1789. Where the slope was too steep to admit of external forts , subterranean galleries were excavated in the solid rock . These galleries , which are chiefly on the north and north - west , are ...
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Page 108 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 283 - I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand - his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him - he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 389 - PRAISE ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens : Praise him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels : Praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light.
Page 108 - Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells ! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon...
Page 28 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn ; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees...
Page 29 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Page 27 - The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast, And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Page 353 - Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 168 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 168 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.