Alroy. Ixion in Heaven. The Infernal Marriage. PopanillaLongmans, 1878 - 463 páginas |
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Abdallah Abidan Abner Alp Arslan Alroy arms arrived Arslan Asriel Bagdad beautiful Bostenay brother Caleb Caliph captain Captivity CHAPTER companions couch countenance dark David David Alroy Deioneus desert dirhems doubt dream Enceladus entered exclaimed eyes faith fancy Fantaisie fear feel fruit Ganymede gates gazed guard Hamadan hand Hassan Subah hath head heart Heaven Hebrew Honain horse hour inquired island Israel Ithamar Ixion Jabaster Jove Juno Kisloch Lachesis lady live looked Lord Majesty Manto Methinks mighty Miriam morning mountains nation never night palace passion pavilion Persia Pharez pine-apples Pluto Popanilla priest Prince Princess Proserpine Queen Rabbi Zimri replied robes rose sacred sceptre Scherirah Schirene Seljuks Sire slaves smile speak spirit stars steed strange Sultan sweet tell thee Thessaly things thou art thou hast thought thousand throne Tiresias voice Vraibleusians warriors whispered wild youth Zimri
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Página 106 - 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.
Página 117 - 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.
Página 104 - 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.
Página 112 - 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...
Página 104 - 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.
Página 260 - 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. While the machinery affected spontaneous motions, the several birds warbled their natural harmony. Through this scene of magnificence the Greek ambassador was led by the vizier to the foot of the caliph's throne.
Página 20 - All this is come upon us ; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Página 285 - Jove loves an epigram. He does not esteem Apollo's works at all. Jove is of the classical school, and admires satire, provided there be no allusions to gods and kings.' ' Of course ; I quite agree with him. I remember we had a confounded poet at Larissa who proved my family lived before the deluge, and asked me for a pension. I refused him, and then he wrote an epigram asserting that I sprang from the veritable stones thrown by Deucalion and Pyrrha at the re-peopling of the earth, and retained all...
Página 153 - 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.
Página 439 - Upon what system,' one day enquired that unwearied political student, the Fantaisian Ambassador, of his old friend Skindeep, 'does your Government surround a small rock in the middle of the sea with fortifications, and cram it full of clerks, soldiers, lawyers, and priests...