Spicklehurst, and other storiesGall & Inglis, 1894 - 241 páginas |
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Abd El Kader Alphonso animal Atahualpha bastinado beans began bird Boetes Bosphorus Bridge of Sighs brother Button Caliph called Castle Craig Clinker companions Council of Ten dark decoy delighted doge Doge of Venice Dolittle donkey door eagle Eugene eyes Faliero father feet fell felt followed friends gave gazelle Giacomo Gibbo Giles gipsey hand head heard hour Huascar immediately Jacopo Janizary John keep kick knew Lascaris laundress leaped little boy lived Lobenski looked loud magistrate Marino Faliero master morning mother mountains Neddy's Neff never Newington Green night nose palace Paul person pigs pine-apples Pizarro poor Neddy prisoners Robert Robin Green rock round rushed Russians scampered seized Selina side Smug soon sound spot stones stood straw Swaggerbags thing thou thought took town turned Venice village wind young
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Página 157 - STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me. and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times when many a subject land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! II.
Página 93 - And behold, it shall come to pass that my servants shall be sent forth to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south; 64.
Página 195 - The pains of death are past; Labor and sorrow cease ; And, life's long warfare closed at last, His soul is found in peace. Soldier of Christ, well done ! Praise be thy new employ ; And, while eternal ages run, Rest in thy Saviour's joy.
Página 157 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers : And such she was ; — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased.
Página 52 - It was a maxim at law, which the judges on the bench would certify, that every man had a right to do what he liked with his own.
Página 129 - With fraud and force, with false and fatal breath, (Submission bondage, and resistance death,) They swept the isles. In vain the simple race Kneel'd to the iron sceptre of their grace, Or with weak arms their fiery vengeance braved ; They came, they saw, they conquer'd, they enslaved, And they destroy'd ; — the generous heart they broke. They crush'd the timid neck beneath the yoke ; Where'er to battle march'd their fell array, The sword of conquest plough'd resistless way; Where'er from cruel...
Página 129 - Such as their sires had been, the children were From age to age ; as waves upon the tide Of stormless time, they calmly lived and died. Dreadful as hurricanes athwart the main...
Página 129 - ... miles from the coast, and rising gradually to the Andes, of which, in fact, they are the lower steps. This latter region contains lofty plains, from 8000 to 10,000 feet above the level of the sea, and numerous deep valleys.
Página 37 - Sir," said she to the worthy magistrate who stood over her with a poker in his hand, " Oh, Sir, a real Bengal tiger, six feet long from the tip of his nose to the beginning of his tail, — such a monster, — flew about the fair like a mad cat, — over the Booths, Sir, under the stalls, — fourteen women wounded, seven small children eaten up alive for what I know...
Página 197 - was from seven to ten inches deep, and the wind, which blew a hurricane, raised and tossed it about in clouds. Not a trace could be seen of the paths, and I was six hours performing twelve miles. But this was the only bad journey that I have yet made in the Alps, and notwithstanding the exposure, I arrived perfectly well at San Veran, and held a meeting in the evening. The next day I preached in the church, catechised in the afternoon, and assembled...