The Earthquake: A Tale, Bind 2William Blackwood, 1820 - 883 sider |
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Side 256 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, 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 my process; — And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Side 180 - twere vain to tell, But gaze on that of the Gazelle, It will assist thy fancy well, As large, as languishingly dark, But Soul beam'd forth in every spark...
Side 53 - ... was whirled along as rapidly as before; and after the stated period, the mason found himself with his eyes uncovered on the spot in the Champs Elysees where he had first been met, and alone ! The night was now far advanced, or, rather, the morning was approaching. The man was stunned and bewildered with what he had witnessed; but, after a short time, he recovered the use of his intellects so far, as to determine to go forthwith to the governor of Paris.
Side 143 - Derbend's || iron barrier frowns no more ; While the proud Russ ^ on Neva's banks aghast, Starts at the echoes of the distant blast. Back the dread echoes roll through climes of day ; Kings shrink to dust and armies fade away. High Candahar on eastern ramparts bold, Imperial Gazni seat of monarchs old, Cower at the peal ; astonish 'd Cabul yields, Lahore"* recoils through all her floating fields. Ah ! be the shadows deep on Kamal's .(. meads : There, there the tow'ring pride of Delhi bleeds.
Side 190 - I could hear, Did ever read in tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But ... it was different in blood.
Side 73 - In the course of a fortnight he was so far recovered as to be able to use exercise on horseback, which he continued until early in December.
Side 30 - Let all reference to the past end here — you are my brother— it is- my duty to serve you to the best of my ability...