The Talisman for ...William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck Elam Bliss, 1828 |
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... voice of command , was to obey it . Wise was he and just , and true of speech . But his wisdom was of this world only . He spake always the simple truth , because he knew that truth was essential to the common good of his realm , and ...
... voice of command , was to obey it . Wise was he and just , and true of speech . But his wisdom was of this world only . He spake always the simple truth , because he knew that truth was essential to the common good of his realm , and ...
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... voice and the harp and lute , the psaltery and burbut and kamouchi , with all those artful melodies which Eblis , the inventor of luxury , revealed to Tubal , the son of Cain , at the same time when he taught him to express the juice of ...
... voice and the harp and lute , the psaltery and burbut and kamouchi , with all those artful melodies which Eblis , the inventor of luxury , revealed to Tubal , the son of Cain , at the same time when he taught him to express the juice of ...
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... voice ; she of the daring soul and the lofty port ; she whose magic art could recall the dead awhile from their graves , and force them to reveal the secrets of the future ; she who could read the stars and frame the epic lay . Dazzling ...
... voice ; she of the daring soul and the lofty port ; she whose magic art could recall the dead awhile from their graves , and force them to reveal the secrets of the future ; she who could read the stars and frame the epic lay . Dazzling ...
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... " Great Cesar dead and turned to clay , May stop a hole to keep the wind away . " & c . But the voice of truth and nature is the same in all languages and countries . bulwark which had encircled them . Often was their site 36 SHEDAUD .
... " Great Cesar dead and turned to clay , May stop a hole to keep the wind away . " & c . But the voice of truth and nature is the same in all languages and countries . bulwark which had encircled them . Often was their site 36 SHEDAUD .
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... voice , singing what I could distinguish to be one of the ancient songs of the country , fell upon my ear . The sound pro- ceeded from a dwelling at no great distance , built of dark coloured stone , united by that cement for which the ...
... voice , singing what I could distinguish to be one of the ancient songs of the country , fell upon my ear . The sound pro- ceeded from a dwelling at no great distance , built of dark coloured stone , united by that cement for which the ...
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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.