The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Հատոր 60Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1863 |
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... nearly twenty thousand doorway in dusty columns . The country men wounded , and thirty generals hors- girls were peeping in at the window , to de - combat , you may imagine that I had catch a glimpse of the Emperor . " Why a busy time ...
... nearly twenty thousand doorway in dusty columns . The country men wounded , and thirty generals hors- girls were peeping in at the window , to de - combat , you may imagine that I had catch a glimpse of the Emperor . " Why a busy time ...
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... nearly the whole frontage , " The tree - trunks were only seen partially from ground to summit , being covered with a diversified drapery of creeping plants , all of the most vivid shades of green ; scarcely a flower to be seen , except ...
... nearly the whole frontage , " The tree - trunks were only seen partially from ground to summit , being covered with a diversified drapery of creeping plants , all of the most vivid shades of green ; scarcely a flower to be seen , except ...
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... nearly fifteen thousand spe- cies , more than eight thousand of which were new to science ; and he has our best thanks for a book which is replete with interest and charm and information from the beginning to the end . From Chambers's ...
... nearly fifteen thousand spe- cies , more than eight thousand of which were new to science ; and he has our best thanks for a book which is replete with interest and charm and information from the beginning to the end . From Chambers's ...
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... nearly bare . When , by the aid of these scavengers , and the natural process of decay , the body has been reduced to a skeleton , the friends of the deceased revisit the tower , and commit the remains of their departed friend to the ...
... nearly bare . When , by the aid of these scavengers , and the natural process of decay , the body has been reduced to a skeleton , the friends of the deceased revisit the tower , and commit the remains of their departed friend to the ...
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... nearly similar plan , with this exception , that they occasion- ally cut off a finger of the dead , and af In the East , where cremation still con- stitutes one of the modes of disposing of the dead , the Siamese follow a method of ...
... nearly similar plan , with this exception , that they occasion- ally cut off a finger of the dead , and af In the East , where cremation still con- stitutes one of the modes of disposing of the dead , the Siamese follow a method of ...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Հատոր 1,Հատոր 64 Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1865 |
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Էջ 391 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Էջ 390 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Էջ 394 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Էջ 364 - STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th...
Էջ 354 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery, — the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain...
Էջ 236 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Էջ 352 - ... criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Էջ 362 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box ; The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Էջ 448 - And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew...
Էջ 391 - Looks through the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of his Beams, or from behind the Moon In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On half the Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs. Dark'n'd so, yet shon Above them all th...