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Página 41
After four hours ride , wearrived at the foot of the hill which overlooks the plain
where it took place ; leaving our animals there , we ascended to the summit , and
precipitated ourselves down the declivity of ashes sloping into the valley , nearly
in ...
After four hours ride , wearrived at the foot of the hill which overlooks the plain
where it took place ; leaving our animals there , we ascended to the summit , and
precipitated ourselves down the declivity of ashes sloping into the valley , nearly
in ...
Página 113
... before he took his seat - of what the main - spring has been composed we will
not venture to surmise — and he has every night , swung his arms as a pendulum
, till he has run down ; like his own “ Penny Magazine , ” treating of this and that ...
... before he took his seat - of what the main - spring has been composed we will
not venture to surmise — and he has every night , swung his arms as a pendulum
, till he has run down ; like his own “ Penny Magazine , ” treating of this and that ...
Página 147
... Michael Swinford had been gathered to his fathers : who it was that crossed the
Dyke , at the time the event intimated took place , was never satisfactorily
determined ; but the superstitious peasantry identified him with the personage
whose ...
... Michael Swinford had been gathered to his fathers : who it was that crossed the
Dyke , at the time the event intimated took place , was never satisfactorily
determined ; but the superstitious peasantry identified him with the personage
whose ...
Página 209
DURING my residence in Messina , one of the most remarkable eruptions of Atna
, which have occurred for many years , took place . Notice of the event was given
in Messina by the fall of a copious shower of ashes , which , the very reverse of ...
DURING my residence in Messina , one of the most remarkable eruptions of Atna
, which have occurred for many years , took place . Notice of the event was given
in Messina by the fall of a copious shower of ashes , which , the very reverse of ...
Página 280
I pulled out my tablets , and he took out the pencil , and wrote down his address ;
but that was of no use to me . “ Stop , " my good fellow , I have so many
addresses down there , that I shall be making some mistake ; put your name
down above ...
I pulled out my tablets , and he took out the pencil , and wrote down his address ;
but that was of no use to me . “ Stop , " my good fellow , I have so many
addresses down there , that I shall be making some mistake ; put your name
down above ...
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Página 321 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 64 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?
Página 60 - Grief made the young Spring wild, and she threw down Her kindling buds, as if she Autumn were, Or they dead leaves; since her delight is flown, For whom should she have waked the sullen year?
Página 63 - I dare not guess; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife. Where nothing is, but all things seem. And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be. Like all the rest, a mockery.
Página 321 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Página 64 - I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine : have I not kept the vow ? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from his voiceless grave : they have in...
Página 65 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 61 - Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life...
Página 64 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Página 64 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.