The Living Age, Volumen198E. Littell & Company, 1893 |
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... tell of that dread- Chatham Islands . On their side they ful time when as many as fifty of their bound themselves to supply the ship at ancestors were roasted in a single oven ; their cost with a full freight ; but the and when the ...
... tell of that dread- Chatham Islands . On their side they ful time when as many as fifty of their bound themselves to supply the ship at ancestors were roasted in a single oven ; their cost with a full freight ; but the and when the ...
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... tell of the pretty turns of expression must the world the other half of that tragedy , the losers ' half ; so it is only known partially , and therefore incorrectly , as told from one standpoint , that of the victors . Yet of all but ...
... tell of the pretty turns of expression must the world the other half of that tragedy , the losers ' half ; so it is only known partially , and therefore incorrectly , as told from one standpoint , that of the victors . Yet of all but ...
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tell you about her . Ma Shwe Tha . - Afterwards it was to take any other wives . It is true there was the lesser queen , but Mebya did not mind her , for she was of no ac- count ; but the queen was afraid of any one coming between her ...
tell you about her . Ma Shwe Tha . - Afterwards it was to take any other wives . It is true there was the lesser queen , but Mebya did not mind her , for she was of no ac- count ; but the queen was afraid of any one coming between her ...
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... tell it badly . Very soon after that the war began , and the queen went often to Councils with the king , and troops were sent from Mandalay down to the frontier ; but of this the Thakin knows much more than I do , for I only know what ...
... tell it badly . Very soon after that the war began , and the queen went often to Councils with the king , and troops were sent from Mandalay down to the frontier ; but of this the Thakin knows much more than I do , for I only know what ...
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... tell it all like this ; but bit by bit , with coaxing and care , she told all she knew , and she cried a little at the end , because she did not wish to give up her bangles to be buried . While little Ma Than was speaking the queen did ...
... tell it all like this ; but bit by bit , with coaxing and care , she told all she knew , and she cried a little at the end , because she did not wish to give up her bangles to be buried . While little Ma Than was speaking the queen did ...
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Página 486 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 183 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Página 34 - THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn.
Página 429 - FAIR daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again.
Página 376 - Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, bough, cradle, and all.
Página 33 - All these he saw; but what he fain had seen He could not see, the kindly human face, Nor ever hear a kindly voice, but heard The myriad shriek of wheeling ocean-fowl, The league-long roller thundering on the reef, The moving whisper of huge trees that branch'd And blossom'd in the zenith, or the sweep Of some precipitous rivulet to the wave...
Página 34 - A hundred hills their dusky backs upheaved All over this still ocean; and beyond, Far, far beyond, the solid vapours stretched, In headlands, tongues, and promontory shapes...
Página 42 - Fall, as the crest of some slow-arching wave Heard in dead night along that tableshore Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves Far over sands marbled with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing...
Página 365 - O world, as God has made it! All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty.
Página 582 - And who is the worse for that?" BOSWELL. "It hurts people of weaker nerves." JOHNSON. "I know no such weak-nerved people." Mr. Burke, to whom I related this conference, said, "It is well, if when a man comes to die, he has nothing heavier upon his conscience than having been a little rough in conversation.