The Illustrated London Reading BookPrinted and published at the office of The Illustrated London News, 1851 - 264 страница |
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... course at first lay all up hill ; but when we had proceeded to a certain height , the distant country , which is most richly variegated , opened freely to our view . I do not mean at present to describe that country , or the different ...
... course at first lay all up hill ; but when we had proceeded to a certain height , the distant country , which is most richly variegated , opened freely to our view . I do not mean at present to describe that country , or the different ...
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... course . The most formidable enemy of this animal , if we except man , is the jaguar ; and it is asserted that when that tiger of the American forest throws itself upon the tapir , the latter rushes through the most dense and tangled ...
... course . The most formidable enemy of this animal , if we except man , is the jaguar ; and it is asserted that when that tiger of the American forest throws itself upon the tapir , the latter rushes through the most dense and tangled ...
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... . After passing through this lake , it runs down a rocky valley with great noise and rapidity to the Lake of Tiberias . In this part of its course the stream. E 2 ILLUSTRATED LONDON READING BOOK . 51 ::::: ::::::: PAGE.
... . After passing through this lake , it runs down a rocky valley with great noise and rapidity to the Lake of Tiberias . In this part of its course the stream. E 2 ILLUSTRATED LONDON READING BOOK . 51 ::::: ::::::: PAGE.
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... course . It then reaches a valley , which is the lowest ground in the whole of Syria , many hundred feet below the level of the Mediterranean Sea . It is so well sheltered by the high land on both sides , that the heat thus produced and ...
... course . It then reaches a valley , which is the lowest ground in the whole of Syria , many hundred feet below the level of the Mediterranean Sea . It is so well sheltered by the high land on both sides , that the heat thus produced and ...
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... course , that the Mexicans invariably calculate a certain sum for the expenses of the road , including the usual fee for the banditti . Baggage is sent by the muleteers , by which means it is ensured from all danger , although a long ...
... course , that the Mexicans invariably calculate a certain sum for the expenses of the road , including the usual fee for the banditti . Baggage is sent by the muleteers , by which means it is ensured from all danger , although a long ...
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ancient animal appearance ask'd battle beautiful bird body called cheerfulness colour consists DALMATIAN DOG danger dark death delight earth enemies England feet flowers GAMBIER ISLANDERS Gelert gentle give ground hand happy head heart height honour hour ILLUSTRATED LONDON inhabitants island Jalapa JOHN HAMPDEN Joppa kind King labour land length light live look Lord manner miles mind mountain native nature nest never night noble o'er observation pain pass passions Patmos peace person pleasure POOL OF SILOAM Prince Pyramid Lake resembling rise river rock sails Samian wine scene ship side sleep sloth soul species Staffa stone STONY CROSS STRATA FLORIDA ABBEY sweet Swineshead tapir taste thee things Thor thou thought tion towers trees tube vessel wall whole wind wood young
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Страница 145 - Now strike the golden lyre again : A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Страница 205 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Страница 186 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Страница 186 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Страница 190 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Страница 172 - By the festal cities' blaze, Whilst the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore...
Страница 109 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Страница 228 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Страница 186 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy...
Страница 203 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...