The Babbler; or, Weekly literary and scientific intelligencer, Volume 11822 |
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... morning and evening , he earned the money that paid for his education . Eight weeks labour gene- rally produced pay for a month's school- ing . His schoolmaster was kind to him , and rewarded his recitations with a present of threepence ...
... morning and evening , he earned the money that paid for his education . Eight weeks labour gene- rally produced pay for a month's school- ing . His schoolmaster was kind to him , and rewarded his recitations with a present of threepence ...
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... morning after I had been helping to dig the hole for a lime kiln , where the many fragments of mortality and perished ruins , inspired me with thoughts of other times , and warmed me into song . " Most of the other poems are of a recent ...
... morning after I had been helping to dig the hole for a lime kiln , where the many fragments of mortality and perished ruins , inspired me with thoughts of other times , and warmed me into song . " Most of the other poems are of a recent ...
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" The sitting magistrate , before whom she was carried the next morning , pre- faced his first question with the most opprobrious title that ever belonged to the most hardened street - walkers , and which man born of woman , should not ...
" The sitting magistrate , before whom she was carried the next morning , pre- faced his first question with the most opprobrious title that ever belonged to the most hardened street - walkers , and which man born of woman , should not ...
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... morning air , Which now with hues of sun - rise burn'd , A great black anchor rising there ; And wherever the lady turn'd her eyes , It hung before her in the skies . The sky was as blue as the summer sea , The depths were cloudless ...
... morning air , Which now with hues of sun - rise burn'd , A great black anchor rising there ; And wherever the lady turn'd her eyes , It hung before her in the skies . The sky was as blue as the summer sea , The depths were cloudless ...
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... morning of the execution , the delinquents were brought together , in order that they might be reconciled with each other , and join in common prayer for forgiveness of their common guilt . And now Maria's thoughts took another turn ...
... morning of the execution , the delinquents were brought together , in order that they might be reconciled with each other , and join in common prayer for forgiveness of their common guilt . And now Maria's thoughts took another turn ...
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Page 123 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 384 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 123 - 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?
Page 125 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 103 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep...
Page 123 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks — They have a king who buys and sells : In native swords and native ranks The only hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad.
Page 123 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
Page 263 - ... broker's shop, but she spies something that may be wanted some time ; and it is impossible to make her pass the door of a house where she hears goods selling by auction.
Page 218 - LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red ; it is full of mixture ; and he poureth out of the same : but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Page 195 - Which kiss'd it like a wine-cup, rising o'er The waves as they arose, and prouder still The loftier they uplifted me ; and oft, In wantonness of spirit, plunging down Into their green and glassy gulfs, and making My way to shells and sea-weed...