The Great Exhibition: With Continental Sketches, Practical and HumorousHurd & Houghton, 1868 - 486 من الصفحات |
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... earth that brought them forth . So it is with the numberless and transient delights of Paris . Blooming for a moment they shed their piquant influences , vanish before the chilling breezes of popular ennui , and no one wastes a farther ...
... earth that brought them forth . So it is with the numberless and transient delights of Paris . Blooming for a moment they shed their piquant influences , vanish before the chilling breezes of popular ennui , and no one wastes a farther ...
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... earth , and then repeated a hymn to creation . The church bells , the stars , the clouds , the moon , shadows , dead bodies , and evening anthems were then the rage , and the consumption of them was beyond all bounds . " This poetical ...
... earth , and then repeated a hymn to creation . The church bells , the stars , the clouds , the moon , shadows , dead bodies , and evening anthems were then the rage , and the consumption of them was beyond all bounds . " This poetical ...
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... . And it is not merely the barren magnificence of the icy torrent , its stupendous size , its vast expanse , the gigantic ribs , like the outcrop- ping frame - work , the skeleton of the earth THE FURKA PASS AND RHONE GLACIER . 51.
... . And it is not merely the barren magnificence of the icy torrent , its stupendous size , its vast expanse , the gigantic ribs , like the outcrop- ping frame - work , the skeleton of the earth THE FURKA PASS AND RHONE GLACIER . 51.
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... earth itself , that fascinate and overpower the mind . Every feat- ure around seems in harmony with it , and as if rejoicing to do its utmost to lend an additional charm . Rocky precipices look down upon it with meditative admiration ...
... earth itself , that fascinate and overpower the mind . Every feat- ure around seems in harmony with it , and as if rejoicing to do its utmost to lend an additional charm . Rocky precipices look down upon it with meditative admiration ...
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... earth ; but Nature is a thorough- going democrat , and gives the best of her opulence with both hands to all alike . The site of her in- finite and magical labors , her " luxuriant and waste fertility , " matters not to her . She ...
... earth ; but Nature is a thorough- going democrat , and gives the best of her opulence with both hands to all alike . The site of her in- finite and magical labors , her " luxuriant and waste fertility , " matters not to her . She ...
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الصفحة 76 - Johnson — laughed heartily when I mentioned to him a saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Foote took a wicked pleasure to circulate. ' Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull ; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in nature.
الصفحة 356 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep ; the more I give to thee The more I have, for both are infinite.
الصفحة 418 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth, but a good book is a precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to
الصفحة 13 - her, nor custom stale her infinite variety ; others cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies, for vilest things become themselves in her.
الصفحة 56 - continuance of the same. Would Mr. Boswell name the house to his extensive acquaintance, it would be a singular favor conferred on one who has it not in her power to make any other return, but her most grateful thanks and sincerest prayers for his happiness in time, and in a blessed eternity.
الصفحة 210 - rapidity of their conceptions, the fire of their genius, their sense of beauty, — and amidst all the disadvantages of repeated revolutions, the desolation of battles, and the despair of ages, their still unquenched 'longing after immortality,' — the immortality of independence.
الصفحة 486 - tine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold; — For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for lesse be told.
الصفحة 467 - Since light so necessary is to life And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part.
الصفحة 107 - Each lonely place shall him restore, For him the tear be duly shed; Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned till Pity's self be dead.
الصفحة 480 - troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; in