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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...d by mingled and con- flicting perfumes, reeking up from strange convolute censers, together with multitudinous flaring and flickering tongues of emer... ... Let us pour out an offering to yon solemn sun which these gaudy lamps and censers are so eager to subdue!” And, having made me pledge him in a bumper... ...tone of his desul- tory conversation, as he held up to the rich light of a censer one of the magnificent vases—“to dream has been the busi- ness of my... ...my soul. All this is now the fitter for my purpose. Like these arabesque censers, my spirit is writhing in fire, and the delirium of this scene is f... ...e evening winds, or filling the air which I breathed with perfume from the censers of the angels. And, with these words upon her lips, she yielded up ... ...Eleonora were not forgotten; for I heard the sounds of the swinging of the censers of the angels; and streams of a holy perfume floated ever and ever ...

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

...rd of the stewards, waving a white miter, advanced towards Hamilcar with a censer in his hand. Salammbo was then coming down the galley staircases. Al... ... the depths of the turpentine trees. His days were spent in inspecting the censers, the gold vases, the tongs, the rakes for the ashes of the altar, a... ...the mountains large flowers filled with smoking perfumes rock like eternal censers; in the citron trees, which are higher than cedars, milk- coloured ... ...o longer; the tabernacles were set upon the ground; and the fumes from the censers ascended perpendicularly, spreading their bluish branches through t...

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The Aeneid of Virgil

By: Virgil

...ash’d, with silken towels dry. Next fifty handmaids in long order bore The censers, and with fumes the gods adore: Then youths, and virgins twice as m... ...’s the man, who from afar appears? His head with olive crown’d, his hand a censer bears, His hoary beard and holy vestments bring His lost idea back: ... ... temple stands; Pray’rs in their mouths, and presents in their hands, With censers first they fume the sacred shrine, Then in this common supplication...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

... intermixt with Voice Choral or Unison: of incense Clouds Fuming from Golden Censers hid the Mount. Creation and the Six dayes acts they sung, Great a... ...om thy implanted Grace in Man, these Sighs And Prayers, which in this Golden Censer, mixt With Incense, I thy Priest before thee bring, Fruits of more...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

...ermixt with Voice Choral or Unison: of incense Clouds Fuming from Golden Censers hid the Mount. 600 Creation and the Six dayes acts they sung, ... ... thy implanted Grace in Man, these Sighs And Prayers, which in this Golden Censer, mixt With Incense, I thy Priest before thee bring, 25 Fruits o...

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The Revelation of St. John the Divine

By: Anonymous

...r 8 19 3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it ... ...ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand. 5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: a...

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A Simple Soul

By: Gustave Flaubert

... sun on the lace cloth. Ev- erybody knelt. There was deep silence; and the censers slip- ping on their chains were swung high in the air. A blue vapou...

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The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus

By: Various

...hapter 10 A nd Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange ... ... bullock of the sin offering which is for himself: 12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, an...

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Five Works of : Areopagitica, Comus, Lalegro, Il Penseroso, And Lycidas

By: John Milton

... to the ignorant; and yet those books must be permitted untouched by the li censer. It will be hard to instance where any ignorant Areopagitica Mi... ...is new insertions may be viewed; and many a jaunt will be made, ere that li censer, for it must be the same man, can either be found, or found at lei...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Three

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...holy vaulting, depended, by a single chain of gold with long links, a huge censer of the same metal, Saracenic in pattern, and with many perforations ... ...ross the chamber to procure it. But, as I stepped beneath the light of the censer, two circumstances of a startling nature attracted my attention. I h... ...n the golden carpet, in the very middle of the rich lustre thrown from the censer, a shadow—a faint, indefinite shadow of angelic aspect—such as might... ...and upon the writhing of the parti-colored fires 181 V olume Three in the censer overhead. My eyes then fell, as I called to mind the circumstances o... ... the circumstances of a former night, to the spot beneath the glare of the censer where I had seen the faint traces of the shadow. It was there, howev...

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The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan

By: Honoré de Balzac

...o the adulation of women of the world, when he finds nei- ther incense nor censer in his own house! dead to all! and yet, perhaps for that very reason...

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The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

By: William Shakespeare

...ke an apple tart? Here’s snip and nip and cut and slish and slash, Like to a censer in a barber’s shop: Why, what, i’ devil’s name, tailor, call’st th...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...and water had been spilled on the carpet. They were met by a deacon with a censer and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. They... ...nen bands attached to it were relieved by others, the chanters relit their censers, and service began. The hot rays of the sun beat down vertically an...

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

By: George Bernard Shaw

...ze the fact that the Lord Chamberlain in the exercise of his duties as li- censer had done those things which he ought not to have done, and left undo...

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The Schoolmistress and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

...llness in the church. Nothing could be heard but the metallic click of the censer and slow singing… . Near Andrey Andreyitch stood the verger Matvey, ... ...n, covering his right cheek with his hand. Bluish smoke coiled up from the censer and bathed in the broad, slanting patch of sunshine which cut across...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...d I remember to-day, as though I saw it now, how the incense rose from the censer and softly floated up- wards and, overhead in the cupola, mingled in... ... “Let my prayer rise up before Thee,” and again incense from the priest’ s censer and the kneeling and the prayer. Ever since then—only yesterday I to...

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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

By: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

...e knelt two young choristers in lilac cassocks and white lace stoles, with censers in their hands. He prayed for the performance of a miracle, that th... ...inating the dim church. The whole altar was lighted up; the smoke from the censers hung a cloudy rainbow in the air. Andrii gazed from his dark corner...

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Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Volume III : The Third Ten Tales

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ngs blue as the eyes of the par- tridge. By the Body and the Blood, by the Censer and the Seal, by the Book and the Sword, by the Rag and the Gold, by...

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Princess Shtcherbatskaya Considered That It Was Out of the Question for the Wedding to Take Place before Lent

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... on the bowed head of Kitty. Then he gave them the candles, and taking the censer, moved slowly away from them. “Can it be true?” thought Levin, and h...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...and water had been spilled on the carpet. They were met by a deacon with a censer and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. They...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...with magnificence, nor drunk with the ecstatic breath of those innumerable censers. C’est vrai que de toutes ces choses il a pense beaucoup—mais! The ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...nen bands attached to it were relieved by others, the chanters relit their censers, and service began. The hot rays of the sun beat down vertically an...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...Cookery, let us build our stronghold: there bran dishing our frying pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the ...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Five

By: Edgar Allan Poe

..., nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. ...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...ice, and sang, and waved some object over the dead cat as though it were a censer. All this he did on the sly, with the greatest secrecy. Grigory caug...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...e, if I remember;— eighty-three very large and heavy crucifixes;—five gold censers of great value;—a prodigious golden punch bowl, ornamented with ric...

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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

...and paus’d her flight Sublime of hope, for dreadless thou didst stand (Thy censer glowing with the hallow’d flame) A hireless Priest before the ins...

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Idylls of the King in Twelve Books

By: Alfred Lord Tennyson

...ater fell from either hand; And down from one a sword was hung, from one A censer, either worn with wind and storm; And o’er her breast floated the sa...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...te ages national strength lay in theocracy, the priest held both sword and censer; a little later there were two priests, the pontiff and the king. T ...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...descend from their belfries, into the National meltingpot, to make cannon. Censers and all sacred vessels are beaten broad; of silver, they are fit fo... ...to fill them thrice. Next came Mules high-laden with crosses, chandeliers, censers, holy-wa- ter vessels, hyssops;—recalling to mind the Priests of Cy...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...ice, and sang, and waved some object over the dead cat as though it were a censer. All this he did on the sly, with the greatest secrecy. Grigory caug... ...d I remember to-day, as though I saw it now, how the incense rose from the censer and softly floated up- wards and, overhead in the cupola, mingled in... ... “Let my prayer rise up before Thee,” and again incense from the priest’ s censer and the kneeling and the prayer. Ever since then—only yesterday I to...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

... old associates vowed he ‘smelt strong’ of the fumes of the whirled silver censer-balls. His disfavour had caused a stoppage of supplies, causing vo- ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...the Margrave; and Sir Ludwig, kneeling on the green- sward, and reciting a censer, an ave, and a couple of acolytes before it, felt encouraged to thin...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...nts, and kept looking at Katusha, who was near the door and brought in the censers for the priests. Then hav- ing given the priests and his aunts the ...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...ng by, with an indistinct show of dirty vestments, lurid torches, swinging censers, and a great cross borne before a priest. He was an ugly priest by ...

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Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...rs on the bowed head of Kitty. Then he gave them the candles, and taking the censer, moved slowly away from them. “Can it be true?” thought Levin, and...

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