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Page 72
One way there is , if thou Thou'rt ripe to be translated from the earth , Dost love (
me ) with that tenderness . To make a cherubin . Ami . Pronounce it , Ami . What
means my brother ? And let no danger that attends , incline you Sci . To kill you .
One way there is , if thou Thou'rt ripe to be translated from the earth , Dost love (
me ) with that tenderness . To make a cherubin . Ami . Pronounce it , Ami . What
means my brother ? And let no danger that attends , incline you Sci . To kill you .
Page 75
Even the rude boy of rustic form , And hadst thou lived where I was bred , And
robes all fluttering to the storm , Amid the scenes where martyrs bled , Whose
roguish lip and graceless eye Their sufferings all to thee endear'd Inclines to
mock the ...
Even the rude boy of rustic form , And hadst thou lived where I was bred , And
robes all fluttering to the storm , Amid the scenes where martyrs bled , Whose
roguish lip and graceless eye Their sufferings all to thee endear'd Inclines to
mock the ...
Page 145
Being ; and not any specified thing which men worship : Know Thou this , ing
Slokams : 5th , He alone , whom understanding “ He is eternal , he is the
splendor of cannot comprehend , and who , as said by splendor . ” learned men ,
knows the ...
Being ; and not any specified thing which men worship : Know Thou this , ing
Slokams : 5th , He alone , whom understanding “ He is eternal , he is the
splendor of cannot comprehend , and who , as said by splendor . ” learned men ,
knows the ...
Page 388
Thou wicked slave , said Shein the desert , and find him in the act dad , these are
no horses strayed from their of ... As soon as he had strangled neath their riders ;
it is on this account thou dog of the plain , " he rips her wanderest alone in ...
Thou wicked slave , said Shein the desert , and find him in the act dad , these are
no horses strayed from their of ... As soon as he had strangled neath their riders ;
it is on this account thou dog of the plain , " he rips her wanderest alone in ...
Page 390
Shall thou and I ever with a high hand towards Antar . meet as formerly on Mount
Saadi ? or will This wooer at last arrives , in the pera the messenger come from
thee to announce thy ineeting , or will he relate that thou art offers a dower so ...
Shall thou and I ever with a high hand towards Antar . meet as formerly on Mount
Saadi ? or will This wooer at last arrives , in the pera the messenger come from
thee to announce thy ineeting , or will he relate that thou art offers a dower so ...
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Page 54 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Page 259 - WHEN Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods ; Had built a bower upon the green, As if she from her birth had been An infant of the woods.
Page 258 - My Friend! enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more ; Be wise and chearful ; and no longer read The forms of things with an unworthy eye. She sleeps in the calm earth, and peace is here.
Page 261 - That oaten pipe of hers is mute, Or thrown away; but with a flute Her loneliness she cheers: This flute, made of a hemlock stalk, At evening in his homeward walk The Quantock woodman hears.
Page 215 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower ' Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 144 - My constant reflections on the inconvenient, or rather injurious rites, introduced by the peculiar practice of Hindoo idolatry, which, more than any other pagan worship, destroys the texture of society, together with compassion for my countrymen, have compelled me to use every possible effort to awaken them from their dream of error: and by making them acquainted with their scriptures, enable them to contemplate with true devotion the unity and omnipresence of Nature's God..
Page 148 - I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Page 160 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 149 - I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.
Page 259 - Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time, The lightning, the fierce wind, and trampling waves. Farewell, farewell, the heart that lives alone, Housed in a dream, at distance from the kind ! Such happiness, wherever it be known, Is to be pitied ; for 'tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, And frequent sights of what is to be borne ! Such sights, or worse, as are before me here. — Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.