Littell's Living Age, 23. kötetLiving Age Company Incorporated, 1849 |
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1. oldal
... turned lazily upon its side , grunting- " Pshaw , what is there wonderful in a sea - serpent ? An eel is a sea - ser- pent - a conger is a sea - serpent — and one some- what bigger than a conger - eel is no great matter . " So , the ...
... turned lazily upon its side , grunting- " Pshaw , what is there wonderful in a sea - serpent ? An eel is a sea - ser- pent - a conger is a sea - serpent — and one some- what bigger than a conger - eel is no great matter . " So , the ...
3. oldal
... turned the rare advantages com- mitted to him to all the account of which they would have been susceptible in the hands of a more literate traveller . Oh , that Dr. Robinson or Eli Smith had been of the party ! Between their It would ...
... turned the rare advantages com- mitted to him to all the account of which they would have been susceptible in the hands of a more literate traveller . Oh , that Dr. Robinson or Eli Smith had been of the party ! Between their It would ...
7. oldal
... turned from the rays . Deep - rooted in the rapids . The boats plunged down no less than plain , the bases of the mountains heaved the gar- twenty - seven very threatening ones , besides a great ment of the earth away , and rose ...
... turned from the rays . Deep - rooted in the rapids . The boats plunged down no less than plain , the bases of the mountains heaved the gar- twenty - seven very threatening ones , besides a great ment of the earth away , and rose ...
7. oldal
... turned . hands , they dissolve into smoke and ashes . " So Tacitus : " The herbage may spring up , and the trees may put forth their blossoms , they may even attain the usual appearance of maturity , but with this florid outside , all ...
... turned . hands , they dissolve into smoke and ashes . " So Tacitus : " The herbage may spring up , and the trees may put forth their blossoms , they may even attain the usual appearance of maturity , but with this florid outside , all ...
7. oldal
... turned , the existence of which has been re- tion of this pillar with Lot's wife ; but in a note corded by many traditions , and of which so many it is pointed out that " a similar pillar is men- travellers have heard vague reports from ...
... turned , the existence of which has been re- tion of this pillar with Lot's wife ; but in a note corded by many traditions , and of which so many it is pointed out that " a similar pillar is men- travellers have heard vague reports from ...
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373. oldal - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
400. oldal - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
395. oldal - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
373. oldal - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
401. oldal - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
380. oldal - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
401. oldal - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
141. oldal - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
380. oldal - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
400. oldal - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...