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... feet fall is to me an " How profound The gulf ! And how the giant element , From rock to rock , leaps with delirious bound , Crushing the cliffs ! " While I throw the reins on the neck of my imagination , the deafening torrent of the ...
... feet fall is to me an " How profound The gulf ! And how the giant element , From rock to rock , leaps with delirious bound , Crushing the cliffs ! " While I throw the reins on the neck of my imagination , the deafening torrent of the ...
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... feet . The scene is lovely , but the broken and disfigured sculpture , here and there , tells me that the place has been visited by the lawless . What an unenviable mind must he possess , who can find pleasure in mutilating a marble ...
... feet . The scene is lovely , but the broken and disfigured sculpture , here and there , tells me that the place has been visited by the lawless . What an unenviable mind must he possess , who can find pleasure in mutilating a marble ...
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... Nor are the Waterloo chamber , the ball room , and St. George's hall , the latter two hundred feet long , a whit behind them in interest and influence . The Waterloo chamber furnishes another in- stance of the strange WINDSOR CASTLE . 19.
... Nor are the Waterloo chamber , the ball room , and St. George's hall , the latter two hundred feet long , a whit behind them in interest and influence . The Waterloo chamber furnishes another in- stance of the strange WINDSOR CASTLE . 19.
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... feet ? " The mountains were Andes and Dhawaligiras in my estimation , and the rushing cataracts were rivals of Niagara ; while the remains of proud castles , frowning on the rocky steeps , proclaimed the power and boldness of the ...
... feet ? " The mountains were Andes and Dhawaligiras in my estimation , and the rushing cataracts were rivals of Niagara ; while the remains of proud castles , frowning on the rocky steeps , proclaimed the power and boldness of the ...
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... feet be- low . The rift , or chasm , through which the pent - up waters rush with terrible impetuosity , is more than a mile in extent , and its rocky sides are almost perpendicular . " Through the bottom of this abyss the river Mynach ...
... feet be- low . The rift , or chasm , through which the pent - up waters rush with terrible impetuosity , is more than a mile in extent , and its rocky sides are almost perpendicular . " Through the bottom of this abyss the river Mynach ...
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Página 7 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 82 - Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Página 269 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Página 94 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Página 85 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited : and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Página 127 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee.
Página 75 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked; the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Página 121 - In every stream his bounty flows, Diffusing joy and wealth; In every breeze his spirit blows, — The breath of life and health.
Página 35 - For the Lord is a great God, And a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth : The strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it : And his hands formed the dry land.
Página 196 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.