The Illustrated London Reading BookPrinted and published at the office of The Illustrated London News, 1851 - 264 Seiten |
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... Appearance of Attock , Description of the Fort of BACON , Remarks on Lord Balloons , Account of Baltic , Battle of the Beetle , The .. Bell , The Founding of the Bible , Value of the Birds , Appropriateness of the Songs of Bower - Birds ...
... Appearance of Attock , Description of the Fort of BACON , Remarks on Lord Balloons , Account of Baltic , Battle of the Beetle , The .. Bell , The Founding of the Bible , Value of the Birds , Appropriateness of the Songs of Bower - Birds ...
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... appearance . Feeling disconcerted by their numbers , we were presently for sounding a retreat ; but , being urged forward by our guide , we soon mastered the three who led the van , and this gave us spirit to en- counter the main army ...
... appearance . Feeling disconcerted by their numbers , we were presently for sounding a retreat ; but , being urged forward by our guide , we soon mastered the three who led the van , and this gave us spirit to en- counter the main army ...
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... appearance and colour . Some ( as the macaws ) are larger than the domestic fowl , and some of the parakeets are not larger than a blackbird or even a sparrow . The interesting bird of which our Engraving gives a representation was ...
... appearance and colour . Some ( as the macaws ) are larger than the domestic fowl , and some of the parakeets are not larger than a blackbird or even a sparrow . The interesting bird of which our Engraving gives a representation was ...
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... appearances under the microscope : —At first nothing is seen but a parcel of salts nimbly floating in the liquor , but in a very short time these saline particles shoot out into crystals of incredible tenuity and sharpness , with ...
... appearances under the microscope : —At first nothing is seen but a parcel of salts nimbly floating in the liquor , but in a very short time these saline particles shoot out into crystals of incredible tenuity and sharpness , with ...
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... appearance in it . 66 escorting them yet , be not so That horn you THE OIANT SKRYMIR . tried to drink was the sea ; you did make it ebb : but who could drink that , the bottomless ? The eat you would have lifted — why , that is the ...
... appearance in it . 66 escorting them yet , be not so That horn you THE OIANT SKRYMIR . tried to drink was the sea ; you did make it ebb : but who could drink that , the bottomless ? The eat you would have lifted — why , that is the ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 145 - Now strike the golden lyre again : A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Seite 205 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Seite 186 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Seite 186 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Seite 190 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Seite 172 - By the festal cities' blaze, Whilst the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore...
Seite 109 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Seite 228 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Seite 186 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy...
Seite 203 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...