Bentley's miscellany, Volumen29

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1851
 

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Página 480 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Página 339 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 264 - We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire...
Página 551 - Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land: Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move — a melancholy band — Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand...
Página 576 - Duke of the palace, that though you have written the story as well as it could be written, I fear few will have patience to read it." He coloured ; all his round features squeezed themselves into sharp angles ; he screwed up his button-mouth and rapping his snuff-box, said, " It had never been put together before" — so well he meant to add — but gulped it.
Página 31 - ... of those that are wounded, or tired. To this entertainment, there often follows that of whipping a blinded bear, which is performed by five or six men, standing circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape from them...
Página 377 - Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest royall'st seed That the earth did e'er suck in, Since the first man died for sin : Here the bones of birth have cried, 'Though gods they were, as men they died...
Página 577 - that there was a riot on Tower Hill. What would the keeper of his majesty's lions do ? Would he not fling open the dens of the wild beasts, and then address them thus ? ' My gentle lions, my humane bears, my tenderhearted hyenas, go forth ! But I exhort you, as you are Christians and members of civilized society, to take care not to hurt any man, woman, or child...
Página 481 - To want the strength of bulls, the fur of bears Made for his use all creatures if he call, Say what their use, had he the powers of all?
Página 275 - We hardly know a sound which partakes less of harmony than that which is at present in question ; and, indeed, the sudden burst of the answering long-protracted scream, succeeding immediately to the opening note, is scarcely less impressive than the roll of the thunder-clap immediately after a flash of lightning. The effect of this music is very much increased when the first note is heard in the distance (a circumstance which often occurs...

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