Little Classics: ExileRossiter Johnson J.R. Osgood, 1879 |
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... reached the top of the structure . It was a space of per- haps ten feet across from edge to edge , presenting a view of the upper surface of the immense mass of broken mar- ble with which the kiln was heaped . All these innumer- able ...
... reached the top of the structure . It was a space of per- haps ten feet across from edge to edge , presenting a view of the upper surface of the immense mass of broken mar- ble with which the kiln was heaped . All these innumer- able ...
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... all over Ireland . It reached at length the ears of Bogh Dearg , and of the princes and nobles who were at his palace . " Now , " said the monarch , " if Lir were willing to accede to it , I could propose a mode of THE SWANS OF LIR . 31.
... all over Ireland . It reached at length the ears of Bogh Dearg , and of the princes and nobles who were at his palace . " Now , " said the monarch , " if Lir were willing to accede to it , I could propose a mode of THE SWANS OF LIR . 31.
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... reached the monarch , who , together with all his house- hold , made great lamentations for his eldest daughter , grieving more especially for the affliction which it caused to Lir . " Nevertheless , " said the monarch , " what has ...
... reached the monarch , who , together with all his house- hold , made great lamentations for his eldest daughter , grieving more especially for the affliction which it caused to Lir . " Nevertheless , " said the monarch , " what has ...
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... reached the shores of Lough Dairvreac , on the Lake of the Speckled Oak . Here she unharnessed the horses , and desired the children to descend and bathe in the lake . They did as she bade , but when all were in the water , she took a ...
... reached the shores of Lough Dairvreac , on the Lake of the Speckled Oak . Here she unharnessed the horses , and desired the children to descend and bathe in the lake . They did as she bade , but when all were in the water , she took a ...
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... the leafy shore , We meet - we meet no more ! Having ended those verses , the swans took wing and , arising lightly on the air , continued their flight until they reached the Sruih na Male , or the Sea of THE SWANS OF LIR . 41.
... the leafy shore , We meet - we meet no more ! Having ended those verses , the swans took wing and , arising lightly on the air , continued their flight until they reached the Sruih na Male , or the Sea of THE SWANS OF LIR . 41.
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amongst Aoife asked Bashkirs beds began birds Bogh Dearg brethren camels cavalry children of Lir Cossacks cried czarina Daddy daughter dear deserts door Dorchi Duchess emperor Emperor of China Ethan Brand eyes father feet Fingula fire flight Fort Adams friends hands hear heard heart horses Ireland Kalmuck khan kiln knew lake lama laugh lime-burner Lir's looked Macaomh miles misery monarch morning Mother Shipton Moyle never night o'er Oakhurst officers Oubacha palace party person Philip Nolan Piney Poker Flat poor Nolan prince provinces of Ireland replied returned Russian Sea of Moyle seemed seen shed shining band shore skilley sleep Speckled Oak story suffering swans talk Tartar tell thought thousand tion told took Torgau Tuatha Danaans Uncle Billy Unpardonable Unpardonable Sin Weseloff whole wild Wolga words wretched Zebek Zebek-Dorchi دو
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الصفحة 98 - there was any way to make him turn over two pages; but he had not quite presence of mind for that; he gagged a little, colored crimson, and staggered on, — " For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Bouudless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite
الصفحة 98 - Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand? — If such there breathe, go, mark him well." By this time the men were all beside themselves,
الصفحة 85 - on one of the largest, pine-trees, they found the deuce of clubs pinned to the bark with a bowie-knife. It bore the following, written in pencil, in a firm hand: — BENEATH THIS TREE LIES THE BODY OF JOHN OAKHURST, WHO STRUCK A STREAK OF BAD LUCK ON THE 23D OF NOVEMBER, 1850,
الصفحة 71 - BRET HARTE. |S Mr. John Oakhurst, gambler, stepped into the main street of Poker Flat, on the morning of the 23d of November, 1850, he was conscious of a change in its moral atmosphere since the preceding night. Two or three men, conversing earnestly together, ceased as he approached, and exchanged
الصفحة 80 - m proud to live in the service of the Lord, And I 'm bound to die in his army." The pines rocked, the storm eddied and whirled above the miserable group, and the flames of their altar leaped heavenward, as if in token of
الصفحة 29 - At any rate, it is burnt into what looks like special good lime ; and, taking all the bones together, my kiln is half a bushel the richer for him." So saying, the rude lime-burner lifted his pole, and, letting it fall upon the skeleton, the relics of Ethan Brand were crumbled into fragments. THE
الصفحة 108 - and addressing him in every dialect and patois of a dialect, from the Zulu click up to the Parisian of Beledeljcreed. As we came on deck, Vaughan looked down from a hogshead, on which he had mounted in desperation, and said, — "For God's love, is there anybody who can make
الصفحة 27 - on high. The blue flames played upon his face, and imparted the wild and ghastly light which alone could have suited its expression; it was that of a fiend on the verge of plunging into his gulf of intensest torment. " O Mother Earth," cried he, " who art no more my Mother, and into whose bosom this frame shall never
الصفحة 7 - ARTRAM the lime-burner, a rough, heavy-looking man, begrimed with charcoal, sat watching his kiln, at nightfall, while his little son played at building houses with the scattered fragments of marble, when, on the hillside below them, they heard a roar of laughter, not mirthful, but slow, and even solemn, like a wind shaking the boughs of the forest.
الصفحة 23 - reverberated around the horizon, and that mountain would thunder it to mountain, and so the horror be prolonged upon their ears. Then, whispering one to another that it was late, ^- that the moon was almost down, — that the August night was growing chill, — they hurried homewards, leaving the lime-burner and little Joe to deal as they might with their