Indian Reminiscences: Or, The Bengal Moofussul MiscellanyE. Bull, 1837 - 339 страници |
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... means reprehensible , yet , when this love becomes so inordinate , as to exclude from the mind the power of duly admiring aught besides , there is nothing which serves more to weaken the reasoning faculties , or narrow the understanding ...
... means reprehensible , yet , when this love becomes so inordinate , as to exclude from the mind the power of duly admiring aught besides , there is nothing which serves more to weaken the reasoning faculties , or narrow the understanding ...
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... means exhausted : I doubt not but many of your readers , who are well skilled in Arabic and Persian lore , can communicate to you numerous other similar anecdotes ; and as I think the subject is really curious , they would by so doing ...
... means exhausted : I doubt not but many of your readers , who are well skilled in Arabic and Persian lore , can communicate to you numerous other similar anecdotes ; and as I think the subject is really curious , they would by so doing ...
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... means . Hear- ing , however , that there was a gardener , who possessed a peculiar art of doing it unhurt , he was sent for , and desired to bring down the honey . I watched him closely through the whole process , and was told by him ...
... means . Hear- ing , however , that there was a gardener , who possessed a peculiar art of doing it unhurt , he was sent for , and desired to bring down the honey . I watched him closely through the whole process , and was told by him ...
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... means , attempt to defend this art , as it relates to composition , for it is undoubtedly a species of false wit , and will not undergo the fair test of translation which the Spectator proposes ; -but , nevertheless , as being an ...
... means , attempt to defend this art , as it relates to composition , for it is undoubtedly a species of false wit , and will not undergo the fair test of translation which the Spectator proposes ; -but , nevertheless , as being an ...
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... mean to speak , but of those grand and sublime results that we see frequently produced by it . The great poets , in ... means equalled by Pope's " shrieks of woe . " But the sublimest and most wonderfully poeti- cal instance of this ...
... mean to speak , but of those grand and sublime results that we see frequently produced by it . The great poets , in ... means equalled by Pope's " shrieks of woe . " But the sublimest and most wonderfully poeti- cal instance of this ...
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Страница 217 - Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh'? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Страница 84 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
Страница 179 - Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Страница 75 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Страница 86 - And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief was very great.
Страница 301 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Страница 83 - Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.
Страница xviii - When I reflect what an inconsiderable little atom every single man is, with respect to the whole creation, methinks it is a shame to be concerned at the removal of such a trivial animal as I am. The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily and marry as fast as they were used to do. " The memory of man," as it is elegantly expressed in the Book of Wisdom,...
Страница 77 - Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. ''Hearts of oak...
Страница xviii - There are reasons enough, in the fourth chapter of the same book, to make any young man contented with the prospect of death. " For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, or is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the grey hair to men, and an unspotted life is old age. He was taken away speedily, lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul,