The Recreations of Christopher North, Volumen2William Blackwood & sons, 1842 |
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... Strong - pounced and burning with paternal fire . Now fit to raise a kingdom of their own He drives them from his fort , the towering seat For ages of his empire ; which in peace Unstain'd he holds , while many a league to sea He wings ...
... Strong - pounced and burning with paternal fire . Now fit to raise a kingdom of their own He drives them from his fort , the towering seat For ages of his empire ; which in peace Unstain'd he holds , while many a league to sea He wings ...
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... strong summer drought , and a week ago you would have pitied - absolutely pitied the poor Highlands . You missed the cottage - girl with her pitcher at the well in the brae , for the spring scarcely trickled , and the water - cresses ...
... strong summer drought , and a week ago you would have pitied - absolutely pitied the poor Highlands . You missed the cottage - girl with her pitcher at the well in the brae , for the spring scarcely trickled , and the water - cresses ...
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... strong stubble , and skimmed the deep fallows , in which all other horses— heavy there as dragoons- seemed fetlock - bound , or laboured on in staggerings , soil - sunk to the knees . Ditches dwindled beneath thy bounds , and rivulets ...
... strong stubble , and skimmed the deep fallows , in which all other horses— heavy there as dragoons- seemed fetlock - bound , or laboured on in staggerings , soil - sunk to the knees . Ditches dwindled beneath thy bounds , and rivulets ...
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... strong and deadly weapons with which nature has furnished them , the animal kinds wage their war ; he forges swords and spears , and constructs implements of destruction that will send death almost as far as his THE MOORS . 87.
... strong and deadly weapons with which nature has furnished them , the animal kinds wage their war ; he forges swords and spears , and constructs implements of destruction that will send death almost as far as his THE MOORS . 87.
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... strong animal would cross the river , he swims . Man spans it with a bridge .. But the most powerful of them all stands on the beach and gazes on the ocean . Man constructs a ship , and encircles the globe . Other creatures must ...
... strong animal would cross the river , he swims . Man spans it with a bridge .. But the most powerful of them all stands on the beach and gazes on the ocean . Man constructs a ship , and encircles the globe . Other creatures must ...
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Página 382 - These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins; these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Página 235 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Página 59 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Página 134 - That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't ? Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips.
Página 381 - Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, Yet will I fear none ill ; For thou art with me ; and thy rod And staff me comfort still.
Página 344 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Página 354 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind...
Página 328 - The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Página 27 - ... starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead Nor did he change ; but kept in lofty place The wisdom which adversity had bred. Glad were the vales, and every cottage hearth ; The shepherd lord was honoured more and more ; And, ages after he was laid in earth, "The good Lord Clifford
Página 27 - Bear me to the heart of France Is the longing of the shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling field! Field of death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory! Happy day, and mighty hour, When our shepherd, in his power, Mailed and horsed with lance and sword, To his ancestors restored, Like a re-appearing star, Like a glory from afar, First shall head the flock of war!