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... followed , every one . Alas , the flag that led the strife Falls with him ere we win ! It was a glorious end of life : O fortunate Schwerin ! And when thy Frederic saw thee low , From out his sobbing breath * Marshal Schwerin , seventy ...
... followed , every one . Alas , the flag that led the strife Falls with him ere we win ! It was a glorious end of life : O fortunate Schwerin ! And when thy Frederic saw thee low , From out his sobbing breath * Marshal Schwerin , seventy ...
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... followed in the path struck out by Sir George Buck at a much earlier pe- riod . The case of Mary Stuart still re- mains unsettled , and bids fair to be the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case of history ; but this is owing to the circumstance ...
... followed in the path struck out by Sir George Buck at a much earlier pe- riod . The case of Mary Stuart still re- mains unsettled , and bids fair to be the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case of history ; but this is owing to the circumstance ...
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... followed the politician's common plan : she compromis- ed . She allowed her hand to be sought by every empty - handed and empty - head- ed and hollow - hearted prince or noble in Europe , determined that each in his turn should go empty ...
... followed the politician's common plan : she compromis- ed . She allowed her hand to be sought by every empty - handed and empty - head- ed and hollow - hearted prince or noble in Europe , determined that each in his turn should go empty ...
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... followed these more conspicuous sufferers from the King's " jealous rage . " Undoubtedly some of these persons had justly incurred death , but it is beyond belief that they were all guilty of the crimes laid to their charge ; yet Mr ...
... followed these more conspicuous sufferers from the King's " jealous rage . " Undoubtedly some of these persons had justly incurred death , but it is beyond belief that they were all guilty of the crimes laid to their charge ; yet Mr ...
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... followed by his cavalcade , and was lost to sight among the troops . They received him with loud shouts , by the eager uproar of which now near , now in the centre , now on the outskirts of the division , and now sweeping back towards ...
... followed by his cavalcade , and was lost to sight among the troops . They received him with loud shouts , by the eager uproar of which now near , now in the centre , now on the outskirts of the division , and now sweeping back towards ...
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Page 526 - That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten ; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Page 385 - Thy country feels through her reviving arts, Plann'd by thy wisdom, by thy soul inform'd ; And seldom has she known a friend like thee. But see the fading many-colour'd woods, Shade deepening over shade, the country round Imbrown ; a crowded umbrage, dusk, and dun, Of every hue, from wan declining green To sooty dark.
Page 513 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 246 - I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.
Page 239 - His father was a manufacturer of lead pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make a better pencil than was then in use. After completing his experiments, he exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied, that he should never...
Page 365 - That, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, to the bitter cross.
Page 587 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.
Page 248 - Had his genius been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but with his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command; and I so much regret the loss of his rare powers of action, that I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition.
Page 516 - Here's to thee, old apple-tree, Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow ! And whence thou mayst bear apples enow ! Hats full ! caps full ! Bushel — bushel — sacks full, And my pockets full too ! Huzza...
Page 443 - For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.