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... course , turns the comet from its path , makes the Amazons and Nile flow back , and shakes the whole earth . The voice which thus affects the whole planetary system is uttered for no other purpose than that of bidding a seraph descend ...
... course , turns the comet from its path , makes the Amazons and Nile flow back , and shakes the whole earth . The voice which thus affects the whole planetary system is uttered for no other purpose than that of bidding a seraph descend ...
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... course of his voyage and of the Portugueze discoveries ; then transports him to the Temple of Fame , and there shows him the statues of the worthies , and among them a pedestal bearing his own name . Morning comes , Gama relates to the ...
... course of his voyage and of the Portugueze discoveries ; then transports him to the Temple of Fame , and there shows him the statues of the worthies , and among them a pedestal bearing his own name . Morning comes , Gama relates to the ...
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... course ; he kept the coast of Africa on the left , scoured along Ethiopia , past by Arabia , took port in the Euphrates on the shores of Nineveh , and making his tongue serve as a plank , landed the Prophet . ' 3 king king of Onor ...
... course ; he kept the coast of Africa on the left , scoured along Ethiopia , past by Arabia , took port in the Euphrates on the shores of Nineveh , and making his tongue serve as a plank , landed the Prophet . ' 3 king king of Onor ...
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... course to bend ; Veer the main sheet , and bear up for the land . The frequency of the hiatus in ancient poets offends , more or less , every modern reader ; this very frequency , however , ought to justify the inference that by them it ...
... course to bend ; Veer the main sheet , and bear up for the land . The frequency of the hiatus in ancient poets offends , more or less , every modern reader ; this very frequency , however , ought to justify the inference that by them it ...
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But melody and harmony are not the only results of the con- course of vowels . There are in Homer hiatus which , in leading the voice to pause upon certain syllables , express by the sound alone the feelings of the speaker . The ...
But melody and harmony are not the only results of the con- course of vowels . There are in Homer hiatus which , in leading the voice to pause upon certain syllables , express by the sound alone the feelings of the speaker . The ...
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admiration American ancient appears architect architecture banks beautiful British called Camoens cause character command commander-in-chief considered consonant Coteau-du-lac court death digamma Dionysius doubt effect endeavoured enemy England English fact favour feeling force France friends give Glenvarloch Grecian Greek Homer honour hyænas Iliad island Isocrates king labour Lake Lake Ontario land language less letter Livy Lord Anson Lord Hardwicke Lusiad manner means Memoirs ment mind moral nation nature never Niagara Nigel object observed officers opinion oratory original Parthenon party Pasha passage Pelham perhaps persons poem poets political Portugueze possessed present probably produce racter readers reason river Roman Sackett's Harbour says Sheygya Sir George Prevost Sir James Yeo species style supposed temple thing tion troops truth Van Diemen's Land vowels Waddington Wady Halfa Walpole Walpole's whole words writers
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