Littell's Living Age, Volume 75Living Age Company Incorporated, 1862 - American periodicals |
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... Seemed frozen on her lips , or fixed in stone , A chaplet of the stars that cannot die Shone on the brow where living light was none ; Yet death it was not , or it did not seem , Methought , she slumbered in a heavy trance , With fitful ...
... Seemed frozen on her lips , or fixed in stone , A chaplet of the stars that cannot die Shone on the brow where living light was none ; Yet death it was not , or it did not seem , Methought , she slumbered in a heavy trance , With fitful ...
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... seemed to be treading fast in the footsteps of the last Long Parliament , on whose conduct they threw at first such violent blame . " Down to the time of Henry IV . , the longest Parliament that had ever been known ex- tended over ten ...
... seemed to be treading fast in the footsteps of the last Long Parliament , on whose conduct they threw at first such violent blame . " Down to the time of Henry IV . , the longest Parliament that had ever been known ex- tended over ten ...
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... seemed an age , and then it would give six or seven leaps as if it would force its way through the and I stood gasping in vain for breath , as if chest . Then the lungs would refuse to act , the arm of a garroter were round my neck ...
... seemed an age , and then it would give six or seven leaps as if it would force its way through the and I stood gasping in vain for breath , as if chest . Then the lungs would refuse to act , the arm of a garroter were round my neck ...
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... seemed to in- crease . The nearer she was lifted to her mistresses ' level the more her mind grew , so that she could better understand her mis- tresses ' cares , and the deeper became her consciousness of the only thing which gives ...
... seemed to in- crease . The nearer she was lifted to her mistresses ' level the more her mind grew , so that she could better understand her mis- tresses ' cares , and the deeper became her consciousness of the only thing which gives ...
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... seemed to be one man in the world " I wonder , " said Johanna thoughtfully , whom a woman could lean her heart upon , " if we shall have to make a change . " and not feel the support break like a reed beneath her - one man whom she ...
... seemed to be one man in the world " I wonder , " said Johanna thoughtfully , whom a woman could lean her heart upon , " if we shall have to make a change . " and not feel the support break like a reed beneath her - one man whom she ...
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Page 202 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 84 - And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening : knowing that your Master also is in heaven ; neither is there respect of persons with Him.
Page 310 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 295 - It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 84 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Page 237 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 128 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Page 431 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word...
Page 450 - When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away; Young blood must have its course lad, And every dog his day. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down; Creep home, and take your place there, The spent and maimed among; God grant you find one face there, You loved when all was young.
Page 84 - Christ ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart ; with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men : knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.