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... in beauty . Now , it happened that when the giant looked full in the face of that beautiful man , he hated him with his whole heart , and , what was still worse , he took a terrible oath , by all the snows of THE HEROES OF ASGARD .
... in beauty . Now , it happened that when the giant looked full in the face of that beautiful man , he hated him with his whole heart , and , what was still worse , he took a terrible oath , by all the snows of THE HEROES OF ASGARD .
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... poles , and tore in pieces the damask coverings , swept from over the water furiously up the mountain gorges , round the base of the hills , and up again all along their steep sides right in the faces of THE ESIR . 45.
... poles , and tore in pieces the damask coverings , swept from over the water furiously up the mountain gorges , round the base of the hills , and up again all along their steep sides right in the faces of THE ESIR . 45.
الصفحة 46
... faces of the heroes . Thor swung himself backwards and forwards , and threw stones in every possible direction . Tyr sat down on the top of a precipice , and defied the winds to displace him ; whilst Baldur vainly endeavoured to comfort ...
... faces of the heroes . Thor swung himself backwards and forwards , and threw stones in every possible direction . Tyr sat down on the top of a precipice , and defied the winds to displace him ; whilst Baldur vainly endeavoured to comfort ...
الصفحة 55
... faces , like sunshiny morning dew . " And you , " said Odin , looking them through and through with his serious eyes , " and you " " " Oh ! indeed , Odin , " interrupted they , speaking all together in quick , uncertain tones ; " Oh ...
... faces , like sunshiny morning dew . " And you , " said Odin , looking them through and through with his serious eyes , " and you " " " Oh ! indeed , Odin , " interrupted they , speaking all together in quick , uncertain tones ; " Oh ...
الصفحة 65
... face of winds that were like swords until he came into the unknown land , where sobs , and sighs , and sad , unfinished shapes were drifting up and down . " Then , " said Odin , thought- fully , " I have come to the end of all creation ...
... face of winds that were like swords until he came into the unknown land , where sobs , and sighs , and sad , unfinished shapes were drifting up and down . " Then , " said Odin , thought- fully , " I have come to the end of all creation ...
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Ægir Æsir Air Throne Alfheim answered Asa Thor Asgard asked Asyniur Baldur Baugi beautiful Bifröst Biographical Bragi bright brother called chain cold Crown 8vo dark dwarfs earth Edda Edition English evil Extra fcap eyes face Father Odin Fcap fell Fenrir fire Frey Freyja Frigga Gangler Gerda giant giantess Gladsheim gods golden grew grove Gunnlöd hall hand head heaven Heimdall Helheim Hermod heroes Hymir Idūna Jörmungand Jötunheim journey King knew Kvasir land light elves live Loki Loki's maidens mead mighty Miölnir mountain myth never Niflheim night Niörd Norns Odhærir Odin looked Odin's Odur palace POEMS poetry Ragnarök river rock rose round says side Simrock Skadi Skirnir Sleipnir song stones stood story strange Suttung Svartheim sword Thialfi things Thor Thor's thought trees turned Utgard Valhalla Vanir Vidar waves weep whilst wind wolf wonder words Yggdrasil
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الصفحة 41 - BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, MA THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS from this World to that which is to come.
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الصفحة 41 - All previous compilations of this kind must undeniably for the present give place to the Book of Praise. . . . The selection has been made throughout with sound judgment and critical taste. The pains involved in this compilation must have been immense, embracing, as it does, every writer of note in this special province of English literature, and ranging over the most widely divergent tracts of religious thought."- — SATURDAY REVIEW. THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and...
الصفحة 35 - Mrs. Webster has shown us that she is able to draw admirably from the life; that she can observe with subtlety, and render her observations with delicacy ; that she can impersonate complex conceptions, and venture into which few living writers can follow her.
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الصفحة 35 - The life of Vittoria Colonna, the celebrated Marchesa di Pescara, has received but cursory notice from any English writer, though in every history of Italy her name is mentioned with great honour among the poets of the sixteenth century. " In three hundred and fifty years," says her biographer, Visconti, " there has been no other Italian lady who can be compared to her.
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