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Страница 136 - For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Страница 96 - The disk of the sun became almost totally obscured ere he had altogether sunk below the horizon, and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene twilight of a summer evening. The wind began next to arise, but its wild and moaning sound was heard for some time, and its effects became visible on the bosom of the sea, before the gale was felt on shore.
Страница 102 - can you think of nothing ? — of no help ? — I'll make you rich — I'll give you a farm — I'll " " Our riches will be soon equal," said the beggar, looking out upon the strife of the waters — " they are sae already ; for I hae nae land, and you would give your fair bounds and barony for a square yard of rock that would be dry for twal hours.
Страница 96 - Long projecting reefs of rock, extending under water, and only evincing their existence by here and there a peak entirely bare, or by the breakers which foamed over those that were partially covered, rendered Knockwinnock bay dreaded by pilots and shipmasters. The crags which rose between the beach and the mainland, to the height of two or three hundred feet, afforded in their crevices shelter for unnumbered sea-fowl, in situations seemingly secured by their dizzy height from the rapacity of man.
Страница 146 - Before my breath, like blazing flax, Man and his marvels pass away: And changing empires wane and wax, Are founded, flourish, and decay. " Redeem mine hours — the space is brief — While in my glass the sand-grains...
Страница 93 - To go by the sands !" seizing his hat and cane ; " was there ever such madness heard of!" CHAPTER VII. ! awhile to view The watery waste, a prospect wild and new ; The now receding waters gave them space, On either side, the growing shores to trace ; And then, returning, they contract the scene, Till small and smaller grows the walk between.
Страница 195 - I will suppose that you have no friends to share, or rejoice in your success in life, that you cannot look back to those to whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection — but it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty — for your active exertions are due not only to society, but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to serve yourself and others.
Страница 1 - Go call a coach, and let a coach be called, And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call, But Coach! Coach! Coach! O for a coach, ye gods!