Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales: Alroy ; Ixion in heaven ; The infernal marriage ; Popanilla |
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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 Fantaisie 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 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 115 - 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 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 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 150 - 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 102 - Trust in him at all times ; ye people, pour out your heart before him : God is a refuge for us.
Page 437 - Upon what system," one day inquired 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 277 - Depend upon it, our contemporaries are our best judges, and his contemporaries decided that Homer was nothing. A great poet cannot be kept down. Look at my case. Marsyas said of my first volume that it was pretty good poetry for a God, and in answer I wrote a satire, and flayed Marsyas alive. But what is poetry, and what is criticism, and what is life? Air. And what is air? Do you know? I don't. All is mystery, and all is gloom, and ever and anon from out the clouds a star breaks forth, and glitters,...
Page 284 - Such an invitation requires no repetition. And Cnidos is your favourite spot ?" "Why, it was so; but of late it has become so inundated with invalid Asiatics and valetudinarian Persians, that the simultaneous influx of the handsome heroes who swarm in from the islands to look after their daughters, scarcely compensates for the annoying presence of their yellow faces, and shaking limbs. No, I think, on the whole, Paphos is my favourite." "I have heard of its magnificent luxury." "Oh! 'tis lovely!...
Page 109 - 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...