The Talisman for ...William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck Elam Bliss, 1828 |
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... beauty . With their long thick hair waving in dark curls to their feet , they resembled the tall , slender , white - skinned Chenar trees , covered over with the mantling branches of the * Kergus , a fabulous bird mentioned in the Koran ...
... beauty . With their long thick hair waving in dark curls to their feet , they resembled the tall , slender , white - skinned Chenar trees , covered over with the mantling branches of the * Kergus , a fabulous bird mentioned in the Koran ...
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... beauty . Their eyes , large , black and lustrous as those of the antelope , beamed from under dark brows arched high and narrow . Graceful were all their movements , and their steps were light yet firm , like that of a young Arabian ...
... beauty . Their eyes , large , black and lustrous as those of the antelope , beamed from under dark brows arched high and narrow . Graceful were all their movements , and their steps were light yet firm , like that of a young Arabian ...
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... beauty , were a snare to him , for they made him proud , so that he remembered not mercy , nor walked in lowliness of heart . Great and wise in his own generation , and abounding in the goods of this life , he scorned that wisdom and ...
... beauty , were a snare to him , for they made him proud , so that he remembered not mercy , nor walked in lowliness of heart . Great and wise in his own generation , and abounding in the goods of this life , he scorned that wisdom and ...
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... beauty and proportion , and by new applications of mathe- matical and mechanical science , enabling it to rival the magnitude and durability of the works of na- ture . There , arose huge pyramids , such as Egypt's Pharaohs ages ...
... beauty and proportion , and by new applications of mathe- matical and mechanical science , enabling it to rival the magnitude and durability of the works of na- ture . There , arose huge pyramids , such as Egypt's Pharaohs ages ...
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... beauty of this grand minaret , that as it shot up to meet the clouds at sunrise , it fascinated the eye with the crimson tints of the ruby ; at noon it put on the lively green of the emerald ; and at sunset it reflected back the level ...
... beauty of this grand minaret , that as it shot up to meet the clouds at sunrise , it fascinated the eye with the crimson tints of the ruby ; at noon it put on the lively green of the emerald ; and at sunset it reflected back the level ...
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Seite ii - An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Seite 74 - And last, Man's Life on earth. Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends — the good, the kind — Yielded to thee with tears — The venerable form, the exalted mind. My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back; yearns with desire intense, And struggles hard to wring Thy bolts apart, and pluck thy captives thence.
Seite ii - District Clerk's Office. Be it remembered, That on the tenth day of August, AD 1827, in the fifty-second year of the independence of the United States of America, WILLIAM EMMONS, of the said district, has deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the words following, to wit: " The FREDONIAD; or, Independence Preserved.
Seite 75 - All that of good and fair Has gone into thy womb from earliest time, Shall then come forth, to wear The glory and the beauty of its prime.
Seite 156 - Who will believe — not I — for in deceiving Lies the dear charm of life's delightful dream ; I cannot spare the luxury of believing That all things beautiful are what they seem. Who will believe that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the patriarch's...
Seite 253 - GONE are the glorious Greeks of old, Glorious in mien and mind ; Their bones are mingled with the mould, Their dust is on the wind ; The forms they hewed from living stone Survive the waste of years, alone, And, scattered with their ashes, show What greatness perished long ago.
Seite 222 - That leaves its rock-encumbered feet. River and mountain ! though to song Not yet, perchance, your names belong, Those who have loved your evening hues Will ask not the recording Muse What antique tales she can relate, Your banks and steeps to consecrate. Yet, should the stranger ask what lore Of by-gone days this winding shore, Yon cliffs and fir-clad steeps could tell, If vocal made by Fancy's spell, — The varying legend might rehearse Fit themes for high, romantic verse.
Seite 153 - And faithful to the Act of Congress, quoted As law authority, it passed nem. con. ; He writes that we are, as ourselves have voted, The most enlightened people ever known. That all our week is happy as a Sunday...
Seite 73 - Old empires sit in sulleuness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.
Seite 153 - COOPER, whose name is with his country's woven, First in her files, her PIONEER of mind — A wanderer now in other climes, has proven His love for the young land he left behind; And throned her in the senate-hall of nations, Robed like the deluge rainbow, heavenwrought ; Magnificent as his own mind's creations, And beautiful as its green world of thought ; And faithful to the Act of Congress, quoted As law authority, it passed nem.