Corsica: Picturesque, Historical, and Social: with a Sketch of the Early Life of Napoleon, and an Account of the Bonaparte, Paoli, Pozzo Di Borgo, and Other Principal Families: Suggested by a Tour in the Island in 1852Parry & M'Millan, 1855 - 514 pages |
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Page 316 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul: who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
Page 316 - Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 315 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Page 316 - Forbear (he cried) this violence of woes ; First to the palace let the car proceed, Then pour your boundless sorrows o'er the dead.
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Page 109 - Oh, thou Pisa ! shame Of all the people, who their dwelling make In that fair region, where the Italian voice Is heard ; since that thy neighbours are so slack To punish, from their deep foundations rise Capraia and Gorgona,1 and dam up The mouth of Arno ; that each soul in thee May perish in the waters.
Page 237 - It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise; For Jove unfolds our hospitable door, 'Tis Jove that sends the stranger and the poor.
Page 484 - Yet here all products and all plants abound, Sprung from the fruitful genius of the ground ; Fields waving high with heavy crops are seen, And vines that flourish in eternal green, Refreshing meads along the murmuring main, And fountains streaming down the fruitful plain.