The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine arts, ed. by Tobias Merton. Vol.1 - new ser., vol.[2. Vol.2 of the new ser. wants all after p.192]., Հատոր 1Tobias Merton (pseud) 1824 |
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... thing but Platonic : the form , the aspect of Laura haunted him , rather than her mind . Her dress , her air , her words , all preyed upon his imagination , and tormented him with corroding and incessant care . But this was love , love ...
... thing but Platonic : the form , the aspect of Laura haunted him , rather than her mind . Her dress , her air , her words , all preyed upon his imagination , and tormented him with corroding and incessant care . But this was love , love ...
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... thing is , —that to every thing beneath the sun there comes a last day . " From Adam to Noah sixteen centuries elapsed , during which men multiplied on the earth , and increased in wickedness as in number , till to the forbearance of ...
... thing is , —that to every thing beneath the sun there comes a last day . " From Adam to Noah sixteen centuries elapsed , during which men multiplied on the earth , and increased in wickedness as in number , till to the forbearance of ...
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... thing beneath the sun there comes a last day : from this point our meditations began ; at this point they must conclude , leaving those who may have accompanied the writer thus far , to pursue at their leisure the moral inferences ...
... thing beneath the sun there comes a last day : from this point our meditations began ; at this point they must conclude , leaving those who may have accompanied the writer thus far , to pursue at their leisure the moral inferences ...
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... thing around you , and then at you again ; but you moved not - you breathed not - you were dead . " I awoke : it seemed to be yet early - my watch had stopped ; -I felt as if I had been bastinadoed - yet both hungry and thirsty , for ...
... thing around you , and then at you again ; but you moved not - you breathed not - you were dead . " I awoke : it seemed to be yet early - my watch had stopped ; -I felt as if I had been bastinadoed - yet both hungry and thirsty , for ...
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... thing it touched into gold . LAURA . WHEN Petrarch first beheld Laura , she was dressed in green . and her gown was embroidered with violets . Her face , her air , her gait , were something more than mortal . Her person was delicate ...
... thing it touched into gold . LAURA . WHEN Petrarch first beheld Laura , she was dressed in green . and her gown was embroidered with violets . Her face , her air , her gait , were something more than mortal . Her person was delicate ...
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The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the ..., Հատորներ 1-2 Tobias Merton (pseud) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1826 |
The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine ..., Հատոր 3 Tobias Merton (pseud) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1825 |
The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine ..., Հատոր 2 Tobias Merton (pseud) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1824 |
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Էջ 73 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay...
Էջ 358 - twould boldly trip, And print those roses on my lip. But all its chief delight was still On roses thus itself to fill, And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold: Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within.
Էջ 358 - Twas, on those little silver feet! With what a pretty, skipping grace It oft would challenge me the race ! And when 't had left me far away, 'Twould stay, and run again, and stay; For it was nimbler, much, than hinds, And trod as if on the four winds.
Էջ 32 - Her pranks the favourite theme of every tongue. But now the day was come, the day, the hour; Now, frowning, smiling, for the hundredth...
Էջ 414 - I will delate you for a warlock to the privy council!' said Sir John. 'I will send you to your master, the devil, with the help of a tar-barrel and a torch ! ' 'I intend to delate mysell to the presbytery,' said Steenie, ' and tell them all I have seen last night, whilk are things fitter for them to judge of than a borrel man like me.
Էջ 225 - Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away.
Էջ 28 - Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father. We believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge. We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood.
Էջ 100 - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground...
Էջ 405 - Court, wi' the king's ain sword ; and being a red-hot prelatist, he came down here, rampauging like a lion, with commissions of lieutenancy (and of lunacy, for what I ken), to put down a' the Whigs and Covenanters in the country. Wild wark they made of it ; for the Whigs were as dour as the Cavaliers were fierce, and it was which should first tire the other. Redgauntlet was aye for the strong hand ; and his name is kend as wide in the country as Claverhouse's or Tarn Dalyell's.
Էջ 416 - Sir John made up his story about the jackanape as he liked himsell; and some believe till this day there was no more in the matter than the filching nature of the brute. Indeed, ye'll no hinder some to threap, that it was nane o...