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... smoke was issuing like steam from the sides of a pent - up volcano . Sad and thoughtful , Napoleon turned toward the Kremlin , the ancient palace of the Czars , whose huge structure rose high above the surrounding edifices . 6. In the ...
... smoke was issuing like steam from the sides of a pent - up volcano . Sad and thoughtful , Napoleon turned toward the Kremlin , the ancient palace of the Czars , whose huge structure rose high above the surrounding edifices . 6. In the ...
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... smoke , and his hair and eyebrows singed with the fierce heat . At length the day dawned -a day of tempest and of flame - and Mortier , who had strained every nerve for thirty - six hours , entered a palace and dropped down from fatigue ...
... smoke , and his hair and eyebrows singed with the fierce heat . At length the day dawned -a day of tempest and of flame - and Mortier , who had strained every nerve for thirty - six hours , entered a palace and dropped down from fatigue ...
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... smoke and ashes , canopied by flame , and smoke , and cinders , surrounded by walls of fire , that rocked to and fro , and fell with a crash amid the blazing ruins , carrying down with them red - hot roofs of iron ; he struggled against ...
... smoke and ashes , canopied by flame , and smoke , and cinders , surrounded by walls of fire , that rocked to and fro , and fell with a crash amid the blazing ruins , carrying down with them red - hot roofs of iron ; he struggled against ...
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... smoke rolling furiously toward the sky . Huge sheets of canvas on fire came floating like mes- sengers of death through the flames ; the towers and domes of the churches and palaces glowing with a red- hot heat over the wild sea below ...
... smoke rolling furiously toward the sky . Huge sheets of canvas on fire came floating like mes- sengers of death through the flames ; the towers and domes of the churches and palaces glowing with a red- hot heat over the wild sea below ...
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... swept it rolled over a bosom of fire . 18. Columns of flame would rise and sink along the surface of this sea , and huge volumes of black smoke suddenly shoot into the air , as if volcanoes were [ Chap . II . ] THE BURNING OF MOSCOW . 49.
... swept it rolled over a bosom of fire . 18. Columns of flame would rise and sink along the surface of this sea , and huge volumes of black smoke suddenly shoot into the air , as if volcanoes were [ Chap . II . ] THE BURNING OF MOSCOW . 49.
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Términos y frases comunes
Achilles ALFRED TENNYSON amid arms beauty bell blow breath Brutus Cæsar CHARLES DICKENS CHARLES WESLEY EMERSON church clouds cried Cusha dark dead doth dying echoes EMERSON EMERSON COLLEGE eyes face falling fire flames floweth flying Forever never GEORGE ELIOT hand hath hear heard heart heaven Hervé Riel hills of Habersham honor JOHN RUSKIN king Kremlin Lanier leave light Lindis look marshes of Glynn mercy mighty mind Mortier Napoleon Never-forever Nicholas night noble numbers palaces Perfective Laws Priam ROBERT BROWNING rolling scene SCROOGE AND MARLEY ship Shylock SIDNEY LANIER silent Smike smoke song soul spirit Spring Squeers stand Stanza stood sweet swept taste tell tempest thee thine things thou uppe valleys of Hall vitalized pictures voice wild WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind woods wreck
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Página 68 - mid the steep sky's commotion, Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed, Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean, Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread On the blue surface of thine airy surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height The locks of the approaching storm.
Página 65 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, , Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Página 68 - O, wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing...
Página 86 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath; it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes...
Página 81 - Reaper Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Página 37 - Who, whether praise of him must walk the earth For ever, and to noble deeds give birth, Or he must fall, to sleep without his fame, And leave a dead unprofitable name — Finds comfort in himself and in his cause ; And, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause : This is the happy Warrior ; this is He That every Man in arms should wish to be.
Página 35 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means; and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire: Who comprehends his trust, and to the same, Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...
Página 123 - O May I Join The Choir Invisible! O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Página 71 - Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze; Sometimes the roof no fretwork knew But silvery mosses that downward grew; Sometimes it was carved in sharp relief With quaint arabesques...
Página 36 - Is happy as a lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; Or if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need : — He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To home-felt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images ! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart ; and such fidelity It is his...