The Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 96

Voorkant
Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 1924
 

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Pagina 96 - By what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Pagina 112 - By what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from yon, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Pagina 683 - war : it shall be the duty of the Council to recommend to the several Governments concerned what effective military, naval, or air force the Members of the League shall severally contribute to the armed forces to be used to protect the Covenant of the League (Article XVI.).
Pagina 706 - Sit, Jessica : look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold, There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins : But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Pagina 706 - Lap me in soft Lydian airs . . . Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out . . . The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.
Pagina 257 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Pagina 711 - 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. . . . Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow From old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long
Pagina 706 - There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced choir below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through my ear Dissolve me into ecstasies. And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Pagina 707 - The soft complaining flute In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless lovers, Whose dirge is whispered by the warbling lute. Sharp violins proclaim Their jealous pangs and desperation, Fury, frantic indignation, Depth of pains and height of passion For the fair disdainful dame. The
Pagina 610 - a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight. To me did seem ApparelTd in celestial light, It is not now as it has been of yore

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