 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1833 - Broj stranica: 250
...did sages add to that knowledge which, by bequeathing to their posterity, they trusted would in tune combat to conquer their mortality. But the glorious...streets, where hunger and cold reigned paramount, and man was as wretched as if flung but yesterday on the earth, and there had been as yet no time for art... | |
 | 1833 - Broj stranica: 588
...agnin 1 called on the spirits with spell and with sign. Many a mystery was revealed; many aw:ondcr grew familiar: but still Death remained at the end...things, as before. One night I was on the terrace of my tow er. Above me was the deep blue sky, with its stare — worlds filled, perchance, with the intelligence... | |
 | 1835 - Broj stranica: 438
...save that hope gave its gladness to the face of Leila, while that of Medora had all the mournfuluess of memory. But the glorious beauty of the being at...streets, where hunger and cold reigned paramount, and man was as wretched as if flung but yesterday on the earth, and there had been as yet no time for art... | |
 | 1836 - Broj stranica: 304
...and I his orphan child. Marvels and knowledge paid his life of fasting and study. All the spirits ot the elements bowed down before him ; but the future...streets, where hunger and cold reigned paramount, and man was as wretched as if flung but yesterday on the earth, and there had been as yet no time for art... | |
 | 1849 - Broj stranica: 330
...joy he might pour out on life, over whose next hour the grave might close, and 176 THE ENCHANTRESS. only make the parting breath more bitter from the...streets, where hunger and cold reigned paramount, and man was as wretched as if flung but yesterday on the earth, and there had been as yet no time for art... | |
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All the spirits of the elements bowed down before him; but the future was still hidden from his eyes, and Death was omnipotent. His power of working evil had no bounds, but his power of good was limited ; and yet it was good that he desired. How dared... 