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... seemed as if they were all earnestly disputing which should be considered the most useful and important . * 2. When my attention was first drawn to them , History had the floor , and was setting forth his claims in a very boasting " I ...
... seemed as if they were all earnestly disputing which should be considered the most useful and important . * 2. When my attention was first drawn to them , History had the floor , and was setting forth his claims in a very boasting " I ...
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... seemed to make a swoop among them , with a terrific noise , at which I started up , and found that my copy of Webster's Unabridged — the present of my kind uncle had fallen off the shelf on to the table , and had aroused me out of a ...
... seemed to make a swoop among them , with a terrific noise , at which I started up , and found that my copy of Webster's Unabridged — the present of my kind uncle had fallen off the shelf on to the table , and had aroused me out of a ...
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... seemed a wild dream . The telegraphing seemed to be magic ; and we could hardly realize that creat- ures so small and feeble as men had accomplished a work so great . It made all other works of the kind seem small and insignificant ...
... seemed a wild dream . The telegraphing seemed to be magic ; and we could hardly realize that creat- ures so small and feeble as men had accomplished a work so great . It made all other works of the kind seem small and insignificant ...
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... seemed to enwrap him as in a garment , a garment whiter than snow . Hence his name , the White Giant . 4. The way he made himself known to the boy was very curious . Sitting by the fire , James * had noticed that the lid of the tea ...
... seemed to enwrap him as in a garment , a garment whiter than snow . Hence his name , the White Giant . 4. The way he made himself known to the boy was very curious . Sitting by the fire , James * had noticed that the lid of the tea ...
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... seemed willing to trust the evidence of their own senses . 11. “ We left the fair city of New York ; we passed through the romantic and ever - varying scenery of the Highlands ; we descried the clustering houses of Albany ; we reached ...
... seemed willing to trust the evidence of their own senses . 11. “ We left the fair city of New York ; we passed through the romantic and ever - varying scenery of the Highlands ; we descried the clustering houses of Albany ; we reached ...
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Page 325 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war, — These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 325 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 282 - For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie. My music shows ye have your closes. And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
Page 324 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Page 93 - Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Page 103 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 236 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death And Love can never lose its own...
Page 104 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decay'd ; When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow, And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below ; Thou, undismay'd, shalt o'er the ruins smile, And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile ! NOTES.
Page 44 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page xv - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.