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... carried me away from my purpose . Major Denham's travels put me in mind of lions and such ferocious beasts . I went to Exe- ter Change the other night to see the lions fed - a sight , I'll promise you , worth attention . I would not ...
... carried me away from my purpose . Major Denham's travels put me in mind of lions and such ferocious beasts . I went to Exe- ter Change the other night to see the lions fed - a sight , I'll promise you , worth attention . I would not ...
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... carried with them a practical conviction , that the cook who dressed them was no ordinary kitchen drudge . But the dressing of perch is no disputed point in the gastronomic science - no " debateable land . " All the world knows that ...
... carried with them a practical conviction , that the cook who dressed them was no ordinary kitchen drudge . But the dressing of perch is no disputed point in the gastronomic science - no " debateable land . " All the world knows that ...
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... carry his original design into execution . Spain could * Llorente was born at Rincon del Soto , near Calahorra , in Arragon , in the year 1756 ; and at the age of fourteen received the clerical tonsure from the hands of the Bishop of ...
... carry his original design into execution . Spain could * Llorente was born at Rincon del Soto , near Calahorra , in Arragon , in the year 1756 ; and at the age of fourteen received the clerical tonsure from the hands of the Bishop of ...
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... carried on for the extirpation of the Albigenses . Alarmed by the first dawn of those opinions which after- wards ushered in the full light of the Reformation , Pope Innocent III . ap- pointed a commission for the prosecu- tion and ...
... carried on for the extirpation of the Albigenses . Alarmed by the first dawn of those opinions which after- wards ushered in the full light of the Reformation , Pope Innocent III . ap- pointed a commission for the prosecu- tion and ...
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... carried matters to such a pitch of exaggera- tion , if it had not been proved by the archives of the Council of the Supreme , that disorders and abuses of this sort have been committed more than once in the very bosom of the Inquisition ...
... carried matters to such a pitch of exaggera- tion , if it had not been proved by the archives of the Council of the Supreme , that disorders and abuses of this sort have been committed more than once in the very bosom of the Inquisition ...
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Page 261 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Page 10 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Page 276 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere; Thither the rainbow comes - the cloud And mists that spread the flying shroud; And sunbeams; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier holds it fast.
Page 226 - Will either quite consume us, and reduce To nothing this essential ; happier far Than miserable to have eternal being : Or, if our substance be indeed divine, And cannot cease to be, we are at worst...
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Page 278 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; .Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...
Page 276 - Rides high ; then all the upper air they fill With roaring sound, that ceases not to flow, Like smoke, along the level of the blast, In mighty current ; theirs, too, is the song Of stream and headlong flood that seldom fails ; And, in the grim and breathless hour of noon, Methinks that I have heard them echo back The thunder's greeting...
Page 408 - Their notion of its perfect rest. A convent, even a hermit's cell, Would break the silence of this dell : It is not quiet, is not ease ; But something deeper far than these : The separation that is here Is of the grave ; and of austere Yet happy feelings of the dead : And, therefore, was it rightly said That Ossian, last of all his race ! Lies buried in this lonely place.
Page 246 - While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye. Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show — Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow.
Page 244 - In his domesticated state, when he commences his career of song, it is impossible to stand by uninterested. He whistles for the dog ; Caesar starts up, wags his tail, and runs to meet his master.