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... observe , and we think the observation important , that the facility with which we receive the literature of foreign countries , instead of being a reason for neglecting our own , is a strong motive for its cultivation . We mean not to ...
... observe , and we think the observation important , that the facility with which we receive the literature of foreign countries , instead of being a reason for neglecting our own , is a strong motive for its cultivation . We mean not to ...
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... observations . I took a few bear - skins , made a pallet of them , and , calling my faithful dog to my side , lay down , with my gun close to my body , and in a few minutes , was , to all appearance , fast asleep . A short time had ...
... observations . I took a few bear - skins , made a pallet of them , and , calling my faithful dog to my side , lay down , with my gun close to my body , and in a few minutes , was , to all appearance , fast asleep . A short time had ...
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... observed peeping cautiously , and with sparkling eyes , into their innermost recesses , whilst the ethereal motions of its pinions , so rapid and so light , appear to fan and cool the flower , without injuring its fragile texture , and ...
... observed peeping cautiously , and with sparkling eyes , into their innermost recesses , whilst the ethereal motions of its pinions , so rapid and so light , appear to fan and cool the flower , without injuring its fragile texture , and ...
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... observed , that his client was ready , but that really the members of the Court were too much intoxicated- ( he used a worse word than that ) —to perform their duties , and he therefore moved their " Honors " to adjourn . For my own ...
... observed , that his client was ready , but that really the members of the Court were too much intoxicated- ( he used a worse word than that ) —to perform their duties , and he therefore moved their " Honors " to adjourn . For my own ...
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... observed , during the summer , the signs in South Carolina , and marked the proceedings of some public meetings unfriendly to the Union ; and which he ran back to the incubation of Mr. Calhoun . He became the champion of the ...
... observed , during the summer , the signs in South Carolina , and marked the proceedings of some public meetings unfriendly to the Union ; and which he ran back to the incubation of Mr. Calhoun . He became the champion of the ...
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Page 300 - Yet a few days and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 215 - They fought— like brave men, long and well; They piled that ground with Moslem slain: They conquered— but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to a night's repose. Like flowers at set of sun.
Page 60 - Hudson and his crew are at their game of ninepins ; and it is a common wish of all henpecked husbands in the neighborhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Rip Van Winkle's flagon.
Page 100 - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well.
Page 299 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 300 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come 22 And make their bed with thee.
Page 57 - A Tory, a Tory! A spy! A refugee! Hustle him! Away with him!" It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order, and having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit what he came there for, and whom he was seeking. The poor man humbly assured him that he meant no harm, but merely came there in search of some of his neighbors, who used to keep about the tavern. "Well, who are they? Name them.
Page 306 - And now, when comes the calm, mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home! When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still: And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore. And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Page 306 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 300 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings, — yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep, — the dead reign there alone.