Alroy. Ixion in heaven. The infernal marriage. PopanillaLongmans, Green, 1881 |
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Abdallah Abidan Abner Alp Arslan Alroy arms Arslan Asriel Bagdad beautiful Bostenay bright brother Caleb Caliph captain Captivity CHAPTER companions couch countenance dark David David Alroy Deioneus desert dirhems dream Enceladus entered exclaimed eyes faith fancy Fantaisie feel fruit Ganymede gates gazed guard Hamadan hand Hassan Subah hath head heart Heaven Hebrew holy Honain horse hour inquired island Israel Ithamar Ixion Jabaster Jerusalem Jove Juno King of Karasmé Kisloch Lachesis lady live looked Lord Majesty 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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Page 114 - 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 104 - 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 103 - 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 102 - 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 252 - The hall of audience was encrusted with gold and pearls, and a great basin in the centre was surrounded with the curious and costly figures of birds and quadrupeds.
Page 263 - THE THUNDER groaned, the wind howled, the rain fell in hissing torrents, impenetrable darkness covered the earth. A blue and forky flash darted a momentary light over the landscape. A Doric temple rose in the centre of a small and verdant plain, surrounded on all sides by green and hanging woods. 'Jove is my only friend...
Page 264 - Ixion of Thessaly! I thought he was a happy man. I heard that he was just married.' 'Father of Gods and men! for I deem thee such, Thessaly is not Olympus. Conjugal felicity is only the portion of the Immortals!' 'Hem! What! was Dia jealous, which is common; or false, which is commoner; or both, which is commonest?' 'It may be neither. We quarrelled about nothing. Where there is little sympathy, or too much, the splitting of a straw is plot enough for a domestic tragedy. I was careless, her friends...
Page 151 - 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 429 - 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...
Page 270 - Ixion, I am glad to see you in Heaven.' 'Your Majesty arrived to-day?' inquired Minerva, to whom the King of Thessaly sat next. 'Within this hour.' 'You must leave off talking of Time now,' said Minerva, with a severe smile. 'Pray is there anything new in Greece?' 'I have not been at all in society lately.