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... feet and strong hands ; and yet , you had hardly taken the first " step " ere your feet were tending in a different direction , and you were led to results of which you never dreamed at the beginning -all the while , knowing that you ...
... feet and strong hands ; and yet , you had hardly taken the first " step " ere your feet were tending in a different direction , and you were led to results of which you never dreamed at the beginning -all the while , knowing that you ...
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... feet high . If the villagers would see an eastern sky , they must look up towards heaven at an angle of forty - five degrees . The sun does not rise in the morning - not till forenoon . The wall , or Falls Moun- tain , as it is called ...
... feet high . If the villagers would see an eastern sky , they must look up towards heaven at an angle of forty - five degrees . The sun does not rise in the morning - not till forenoon . The wall , or Falls Moun- tain , as it is called ...
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... feet high , laid in masonry ; and so tight that no one can see through it . But I can look over it from my third story chamber win- dow where I sit and write . I can see its huge College buildings , its gardens , the graven images ...
... feet high , laid in masonry ; and so tight that no one can see through it . But I can look over it from my third story chamber win- dow where I sit and write . I can see its huge College buildings , its gardens , the graven images ...
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... Behind me , the almost perpendicular wall of horizontally laid slaty strata rises three hundred feet to the bloody Plains of Abraham , where Wolfe and Montcalm fell in the great battle of 40 GLIMPSES AND GATHERINGS .
... Behind me , the almost perpendicular wall of horizontally laid slaty strata rises three hundred feet to the bloody Plains of Abraham , where Wolfe and Montcalm fell in the great battle of 40 GLIMPSES AND GATHERINGS .
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... feet and broken only occasionally by some rocky ravine , or receding cave , around which , warehouses and dwellings are built under the hill , and rafts and ships make business for the inhabi- tants . The plains above are the Plains of ...
... feet and broken only occasionally by some rocky ravine , or receding cave , around which , warehouses and dwellings are built under the hill , and rafts and ships make business for the inhabi- tants . The plains above are the Plains of ...
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Page 255 - midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!
Page 209 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Page 209 - And where, though all things differ, all agree. Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display, And part admit, and part exclude the day ; 'As some coy nymph her lover's warm address Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.
Page 93 - Th' enormous monsters rolling o'er the deep Gambol around him on the wat'ry way; And heavy whales in awkward measures play : The sea subsiding spreads a level plain, Exults, and owns the monarch of the main; The parting waves before his coursers fly : The wondering waters leave his axle dry.
Page 59 - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Page 365 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Page 111 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Page 209 - There, interspersed in lawns and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Here in full light the russet plains extend : There wrapt in clouds the bluish hills ascend. Ev'n the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And 'midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That, crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.
Page 384 - Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests and the dangers of the deep, And pause at times, and feel that we are safe ; Then listen to the perilous tale again, And with an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us. ... But to hear The roaring of the raging elements, . . . To know all human skill, all human strength, Avail not, . . to look round, and only see The mountain wave incumbent...
Page 91 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...