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... soon become wearied ; if too low a pitch be selected , there is danger of indistinctness of utter- ance ; and , in either case , there is less room for variety of tone , than if one be taken between the two extremes . On this point ...
... soon become wearied ; if too low a pitch be selected , there is danger of indistinctness of utter- ance ; and , in either case , there is less room for variety of tone , than if one be taken between the two extremes . On this point ...
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... soon as I am detected ' , ( and detected I most certainly shall ' be , ) I am blasted for the infamous attempt ' ; and whatever is said afterward to the disadvantage of that person ' , however true ' , passes for calumny` . If I lie or ...
... soon as I am detected ' , ( and detected I most certainly shall ' be , ) I am blasted for the infamous attempt ' ; and whatever is said afterward to the disadvantage of that person ' , however true ' , passes for calumny` . If I lie or ...
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... soon be won . " And were not these , high words to flow From Woman's breaking heart ? Through all that night of bitterest woe , She bore her lofty part : But oh ! with such a freezing eye With such a curdling cheek ! Love , love ! of ...
... soon be won . " And were not these , high words to flow From Woman's breaking heart ? Through all that night of bitterest woe , She bore her lofty part : But oh ! with such a freezing eye With such a curdling cheek ! Love , love ! of ...
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... soon after night - fall , as if ashamed to appear in so scanty a form , like an unfinished work of creation . It was the moon , the first new moon . Timidly , she looked around upon the glittering multi- tude that crowded the dark ...
... soon after night - fall , as if ashamed to appear in so scanty a form , like an unfinished work of creation . It was the moon , the first new moon . Timidly , she looked around upon the glittering multi- tude that crowded the dark ...
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... Soon afterward , the day broke , and she withdrew , marveling what would next befall her . Never had the stars been more impatient to resume their places , nor the moon more impatient to rise , than on the fol- lowing evening . With ...
... Soon afterward , the day broke , and she withdrew , marveling what would next befall her . Never had the stars been more impatient to resume their places , nor the moon more impatient to rise , than on the fol- lowing evening . With ...
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Page 171 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 108 - O come, let us sing unto the Lord ; let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with Psalms.
Page 474 - After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Page 380 - And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young? Instead of the cross the Albatross About my neck was hung.
Page 123 - Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
Page 442 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?
Page 244 - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth ; The grass is bright with rain-drops; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth ; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Page 448 - Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life : he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this ? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord : I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of God, which should come into the world.
Page 19 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 31 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.