Salad for the SolitaryR. Bentley, 1853 - 284 páginas |
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... magnificent . Two thousand select fishes were served up , seven thousand fat birds , and every delicacy which the ocean and Mediterranean sea could furnish . Nero sat at the table from mid - day till midnight , amidst the most monstrous ...
... magnificent . Two thousand select fishes were served up , seven thousand fat birds , and every delicacy which the ocean and Mediterranean sea could furnish . Nero sat at the table from mid - day till midnight , amidst the most monstrous ...
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... magnificent endowment : it is a glorious scin- tillation of Diety . It is in some sense our patent of celestial nobi- lity ; and if devoted to its high behests , will hereafter prove our passport to the bright and blissful associations ...
... magnificent endowment : it is a glorious scin- tillation of Diety . It is in some sense our patent of celestial nobi- lity ; and if devoted to its high behests , will hereafter prove our passport to the bright and blissful associations ...
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... magnificent mausoleum . Among the Romans , the month of June was considered the most propitious for the celebration of the nuptial rite : May was said to be ominous of the premature demise of one of the parties . The peculiar ...
... magnificent mausoleum . Among the Romans , the month of June was considered the most propitious for the celebration of the nuptial rite : May was said to be ominous of the premature demise of one of the parties . The peculiar ...
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... magnificent speci- men of its kind , and is further remarkable as being the only ex tended specimen of the Mæso - Gothic known to exist . It exhibits a very close resemblance to printing , although executed nearly a thousand years prior ...
... magnificent speci- men of its kind , and is further remarkable as being the only ex tended specimen of the Mæso - Gothic known to exist . It exhibits a very close resemblance to printing , although executed nearly a thousand years prior ...
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... magnificent copy of the Four Gospels , having been done in letters of the purest gold upon leaves of parchment , purpled in the ground and colored variously upon the surface , for the decora- . tion of the church at Ripon , at the ...
... magnificent copy of the Four Gospels , having been done in letters of the purest gold upon leaves of parchment , purpled in the ground and colored variously upon the surface , for the decora- . tion of the church at Ripon , at the ...
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Página 227 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Página 172 - E'en while with us thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath ! Soul to its place on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die.
Página 181 - For him, the Spring Distils her dews, and from the silken gem Its lucid leaves unfolds; for him, the hand Of Autumn tinges every fertile branch With blooming gold and blushes like the morn.
Página 229 - Mantua me genuit : Calabri rapuere : tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces.
Página 331 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of /company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Página 175 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.
Página 304 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Página 145 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Página 85 - Books are a guide in youth and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Página 306 - With NATURE, HOPE, and POESY, When I was young ! When I was young? — Ah, woful WHEN ! Ah for the Change 'twixt Now and Then ! This breathing House not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery Cliffs and glittering Sands, How lightly then it flashed along...