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They have taken from me the only relic I had left of her, a pomegranate flower, which they called, I cannot tell why, a carnation. I loved the arts; at Paris, in happier times, I made a collection of paintings and engravings, which are now in a sure place, and which will be delivered to you so soon as this is possible. I pray you, dear sister, to keep them in memory of me.

A sense of vastness for which, as we gaze, we cannot find words, but which bequeaths thoughts that our higher faculties would not willingly forego creeps within us as we gaze on this Titan relic of gigantic crimes for ever passed away from the world. And not only within the scene, but around the scene, what voices of old float upon the air?

Now other men of the sea were enjoying such honor and he, old and half-blind, would be waiting among the public for the procession to pass in order that he might throw himself upon the enormous relic, touching his clothes to the wood. All his outer garments were sanctified by this contact.

It has taken root too quickly and easily; and its top is too heavy for its roots; still there are so many chances in its favour that it may last a long time." "And how about Hanky?" "He will brazen it out, relic, chariot, and all: and he will welcome more relics and more cock-and-bull stories; his single eye will be upon his own aggrandisement and that of his order.

If you can come soon after one o'clock, we shall have time to prepare maps and telescopes. I saw its situation last night, it has a long tail. "July 4, 1819." Then follows: "I keep this as a relic! Every line now traced by the hand of my dear brother becomes a treasure to me.

By the advice of the patriarch, her garment, a precious relic, was drawn from the sanctuary and dipped in the sea; and a seasonable tempest, which determined the retreat of the Russians, was devoutly ascribed to the mother of God. The silence of the Greeks may inspire some doubt of the truth, or at least of the importance, of the second attempt by Oleg, the guardian of the sons of Ruric.

It was clear, then, that the portrait must have been painted between 1290 and 1302. Mr. Wilde now revolved in his own mind the possibility that this precious relic might remain undestroyed under its coat of whitewash, and might yet be restored to the world.

The Miller house, formerly Muldor, an interesting relic of the year 1767, is known as the Court Martial House, it having been used for the trial and its cellar for the imprisonment of delinquents during the Revolution, the owner himself being among those who suffered, he being given the choice of paying $1,000 or serving two months.

Literature has not yet got hold of him, and perhaps his evolution is not far enough advanced to make him as serviceable as the soldier of the Republic and the Empire, the relic of the Old Guard, was to Hugo and Balzac, the trooper of Italy and Egypt, the maimed hero of Borodino and Waterloo, who expected again the coming of the Little Corporal.

Pure poetry is pure experiment; and it is not strange that nine-tenths of it should be pure failure. For it matters little what unutterable things may have originally gone together with a phrase in the dreamer's mind; if they were not uttered and the phrase cannot call them back, this verbal relic is none the richer for the high company it may once have kept.