The Wondrous Tale of Alroy: The Rise of Iskander, Volume 1Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1833 - 932 pages |
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Page 18
... Dreams , dreams ! we have fallen on evil days , and yet we prosper . I have lived long enough to feel a rich caravan , laden with the shawls of India , and the stuffs of Samar- cand , if not exactly like dancing before the ark 18 THE ...
... Dreams , dreams ! we have fallen on evil days , and yet we prosper . I have lived long enough to feel a rich caravan , laden with the shawls of India , and the stuffs of Samar- cand , if not exactly like dancing before the ark 18 THE ...
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... Dreams all , dreams all . I willingly would see you happy , child . Come , let that face brighten ; after all , to - day is a great day . If you had seen what I have seen , David , you too would feel grateful . Come , let us feast , let ...
... Dreams all , dreams all . I willingly would see you happy , child . Come , let that face brighten ; after all , to - day is a great day . If you had seen what I have seen , David , you too would feel grateful . Come , let us feast , let ...
Page 23
... dream , and dare to think it might be . To breathe , to feed , to sleep , to wake and breathe again - again to feel existence without hope ; if this be life , why then these brooding thoughts that whisper death were better ? 66 Away ...
... dream , and dare to think it might be . To breathe , to feed , to sleep , to wake and breathe again - again to feel existence without hope ; if this be life , why then these brooding thoughts that whisper death were better ? 66 Away ...
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... dream was but the prophecy of coming fate . " And even now a vivid flash darts through the darkness of my mind - methinks , methinks - Ah ! worst of woes to dream of glory in despair . No , no , I live and die a most ignoble thing ...
... dream was but the prophecy of coming fate . " And even now a vivid flash darts through the darkness of my mind - methinks , methinks - Ah ! worst of woes to dream of glory in despair . No , no , I live and die a most ignoble thing ...
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... dream . I too have wandered in those lands , and roamed mid Jordan's vocal bowers . Ah ! could the night- ingale that sang to Syria's rose now sing to me , I'd give the fame of coming years to listen to that lay ! He turns , he gazes ...
... dream . I too have wandered in those lands , and roamed mid Jordan's vocal bowers . Ah ! could the night- ingale that sang to Syria's rose now sing to me , I'd give the fame of coming years to listen to that lay ! He turns , he gazes ...
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The Wondrous Tale of Alroy: The Rise of Iskander; Volume 2 Benjamin Disraeli No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 138 - Sing, O heavens ; and be joyful, O earth ; and break forth into singing, O mountains : for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
Page 136 - Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
Page 144 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD...
Page 136 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 137 - Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
Page 194 - Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree : and ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire : and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Page 204 - Among the other spectacles of rare and stupendous luxury was a tree of gold and silver spreading into eighteen large branches, on which and on the lesser boughs sat a variety of birds made of the same precious metals, as well as the leaves of the tree. White the machinery affected spontaneous motions, the several birds warbled their natural harmony.
Page 150 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not ; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 32 - Again I will build thee, and thou shall be built, O virgin of Israel : thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry. 5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria : the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
Page 197 - I accompanied the priest through the town, over much ruin and rubbish, to an enclosed piece of ground, rather more elevated than any in its immediate vicinity. In the centre was the Jewish tomb ; a square building of brick, of a mosque-like form, with a rather elongated dome at the top ; the whole seems in a very decaying state : falling...