Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 18Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1849 - American periodicals |
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... feet high , which stands just outside city , commands an extensivs view over the plain , both eastward and southward . This the king ascends , his nobles and knights , and dignified clergy , being collected in a mass round its base ...
... feet high , which stands just outside city , commands an extensivs view over the plain , both eastward and southward . This the king ascends , his nobles and knights , and dignified clergy , being collected in a mass round its base ...
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... feet , actually conveying two pieces of rock , not indeed of any very great dimen- sions , to be deposited somewhere at the bot- tom of the sea , a long way to the south . Yet , after all , modern philosophers are pru- dent and ...
... feet , actually conveying two pieces of rock , not indeed of any very great dimen- sions , to be deposited somewhere at the bot- tom of the sea , a long way to the south . Yet , after all , modern philosophers are pru- dent and ...
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... feet in cir- cumference the leviathan of the Book of Job ! " There is nothing equal to the cool cruelty of men of science . Not only did Professor Owen ascertain that all which of right belonged to this monster was the re- mains of a ...
... feet in cir- cumference the leviathan of the Book of Job ! " There is nothing equal to the cool cruelty of men of science . Not only did Professor Owen ascertain that all which of right belonged to this monster was the re- mains of a ...
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... feet , and Dr. Emmons afterwards showed me the greater part of this skeleton in the Museum of Albany , New York . On the same plantation , part of another back - bone , fifty feet long , was dug up , and a third was met with at no great ...
... feet , and Dr. Emmons afterwards showed me the greater part of this skeleton in the Museum of Albany , New York . On the same plantation , part of another back - bone , fifty feet long , was dug up , and a third was met with at no great ...
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... feet above the level of the bay of Mexico . He calculates by various processes , and from certain data furnished to him by skillful engineers and philosophic observers of the country , that the delta must have taken 67,000 years , the ...
... feet above the level of the bay of Mexico . He calculates by various processes , and from certain data furnished to him by skillful engineers and philosophic observers of the country , that the delta must have taken 67,000 years , the ...
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Page 353 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, . Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 242 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 352 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 227 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 228 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 503 - I rejoice that the grave has not yet closed upon me, — that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy. Pressed down as I am by the hand of infirmity, I am little able to assist my country in this most perilous conjuncture ; but, my lords, while I have sense and memory, I will never consent to deprive the royal offspring of the house of Brunswick of their fairest inheritance.
Page 461 - The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace, — all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech. Or blush, at least.
Page 461 - THAT'S my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra Pandolf...
Page 462 - JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed: How all our copper had gone for his service! Rags — were they purple, his heart had been proud! We that had loved...
Page 523 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...