Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines: Including a Visit to PalmyraMacmillan and Company, 1874 - 546 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 438 - ... tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile ; but glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: for there is no respect of persons with God.
الصفحة 396 - Through the tender mer'cy of our God : whereby the day-spring from' on high hath visited us ; To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in' the shadow of death : and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
الصفحة 28 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
الصفحة 5 - From the higher mind of cultivated, all-questioning, but still conservative England, in this our puzzled generation, we do not know of any utterance in literature so characteristic as the poems of Arthur Hugh Clough."— FRASER'S MAGAZINE.
الصفحة 32 - Morte d'Arthur.— SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EmVAFD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. ' '// is with pel' feet confuience that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
الصفحة 28 - A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Countries Gathered and narrated anew. By the Author of "THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE.
الصفحة 25 - Miss Yonge has brought a lofty aim as well as high art to the construction of a story which may claim a place among the best efforts in historical romance." — MORNING POST. " The plot, in truth, is of the very first order of merit." — SPECTATOR. " We have seldom read a more charming story.
الصفحة 27 - Messrs. Macmillan have, in their Golden Treasury Series, especially provided editions of standard works, volumes of selected poetry, and original compositions, which entitle this series to be called classical. Nothing can be better than the literary execution, nothing more elegant than the material workmanship"—BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.
الصفحة 391 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
الصفحة 30 - The book is one that should find a place in every library, we had almost said in every pocket, and the summer tourist who wishes to carry with him into the country a volume of genuine poetry, will find it difficult to select 'one containing within so small a compass so much of rarest value.