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... raise a few spectres in a northern tower exactly as the clock , strikes ONE , but by no means later ; together with a bell tolling without any sexton , and plenty of music without any fidlers . Next must be got ready the scowling brows ...
... raise a few spectres in a northern tower exactly as the clock , strikes ONE , but by no means later ; together with a bell tolling without any sexton , and plenty of music without any fidlers . Next must be got ready the scowling brows ...
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... raised in every possible direction of human industry , had fallen into their hands ; when they had ex- perienced the pleasure which arose from the contemplation of those unrivaled works which the chissel of a Phidias , or the pencil of ...
... raised in every possible direction of human industry , had fallen into their hands ; when they had ex- perienced the pleasure which arose from the contemplation of those unrivaled works which the chissel of a Phidias , or the pencil of ...
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... raised one day , and deposed the next , at the pleasure of a few soldiers ; and those who had ruled the world , were in the course of time confined to the domin- ion of a single city . It were curious to fancy the capitol resounding ...
... raised one day , and deposed the next , at the pleasure of a few soldiers ; and those who had ruled the world , were in the course of time confined to the domin- ion of a single city . It were curious to fancy the capitol resounding ...
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... raised above the changes of adversity and prosperity , which have marked the progress of the ancient world . Would ... raise emotions of wonder and compassion in our breasts , when we behold that very nation , whom we ourselves remember ...
... raised above the changes of adversity and prosperity , which have marked the progress of the ancient world . Would ... raise emotions of wonder and compassion in our breasts , when we behold that very nation , whom we ourselves remember ...
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... ished in the ages of antiquity , or of those who , by their prowess , or writings , have raised our own country to its present state of political and literary grandeur ; if we look upon those , who 50 THE MINIATURE .
... ished in the ages of antiquity , or of those who , by their prowess , or writings , have raised our own country to its present state of political and literary grandeur ; if we look upon those , who 50 THE MINIATURE .
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Страница 360 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 'And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Страница 43 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Страница 358 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Страница 305 - Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds "Your grace
Страница 221 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth : so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.
Страница 225 - Wouldst thou to honours and preferments climb? Be bold in mischief, dare some mighty crime, Which dungeons, death, or banishment deserves; For virtue is but dryly praised, and starves.
Страница 258 - ... it susceptible of lies. He supposes the soul to be of the nature of a piano-cylindrical speculum, or lookingglass ; that the plain side was made by God Almighty, but that the devil afterwards wrought the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass...
Страница 73 - I AM the modest young man whom you favoured with your advice, in a late paper ; and, as I am very far from suspecting that you foresaw the numberless...
Страница 347 - Ever with some new fancy struck, Tries twenty charms to mend her luck. "This morning, when the parson came, I said I should not win a game. This odious chair, how came I stuck in't?
Страница 290 - Ne'er to have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office, and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale;