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... leaving a bluish - coloured knob in the middle to pass for a nose . It was really quite a respectable face . " I've ... leaves in October , but which had now quite vanished out of the substance of the velvet . Next came a pair of scarlet ...
... leaving a bluish - coloured knob in the middle to pass for a nose . It was really quite a respectable face . " I've ... leaves in October , but which had now quite vanished out of the substance of the velvet . Next came a pair of scarlet ...
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... leave for aye her happy nest ; And dreadful is the thought that now Assaults her weak and shaken breast : Ah , should her lover's love abate ; Ah , should she , miserable , lose All dear regards of maiden state , Dissolved by time and ...
... leave for aye her happy nest ; And dreadful is the thought that now Assaults her weak and shaken breast : Ah , should her lover's love abate ; Ah , should she , miserable , lose All dear regards of maiden state , Dissolved by time and ...
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... leaves given to victors in the Roman Capitoline games , probably first suggested the literary distinction of poet laureate , which , with some variations of ceremonies , was maintained until the reign of Theodocius , who abolished it as ...
... leaves given to victors in the Roman Capitoline games , probably first suggested the literary distinction of poet laureate , which , with some variations of ceremonies , was maintained until the reign of Theodocius , who abolished it as ...
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... leave her free - altogether free - and offer her nothing until he can offer her his hand , at once , and with no delay . " " Bless my soul , Launceston , what are you in such excitement about ? Has anybody been offering himself to your ...
... leave her free - altogether free - and offer her nothing until he can offer her his hand , at once , and with no delay . " " Bless my soul , Launceston , what are you in such excitement about ? Has anybody been offering himself to your ...
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... leaves ; Or Winter , yelling through the troublous air , Affrights thy shrinking train , And rudely rends thy robes ; So long , regardful of thy quiet rule , Shall Fancy , Friendship , Science , smiling Peace , Thy gentlest influence ...
... leaves ; Or Winter , yelling through the troublous air , Affrights thy shrinking train , And rudely rends thy robes ; So long , regardful of thy quiet rule , Shall Fancy , Friendship , Science , smiling Peace , Thy gentlest influence ...
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Page 325 - Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy. "The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 180 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 261 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
Page 261 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
Page 261 - While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide the effects, by negotiation.
Page 335 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. /But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, | and...
Page 283 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame. The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses and churches, was like an hideous storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed that at the last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forced to stand still and let the flames burn on, which they did for near two miles in length and one in breadth.
Page xiv - Or find some ruin midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds or driving rain Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires ; And hears their simple bell ; and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 325 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page xiv - O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With short, shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...