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... knew that every little beggar in the street had garlanded herself with sixpenny roses , and I should have pre- ferred that my darling should be con- tent with her own silky brown hair ; but my taste availed her nothing , and the iron ...
... knew that every little beggar in the street had garlanded herself with sixpenny roses , and I should have pre- ferred that my darling should be con- tent with her own silky brown hair ; but my taste availed her nothing , and the iron ...
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... knew the most plentiful harvest which the States had yielded that year was one of murdered dead , as he gave to the young , untainted world , that morn- ing , long ago , when God blessed it , and saw that it was good . Because , you see ...
... knew the most plentiful harvest which the States had yielded that year was one of murdered dead , as he gave to the young , untainted world , that morn- ing , long ago , when God blessed it , and saw that it was good . Because , you see ...
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... knew nothing better than the ignorant , loving heart , the horny hands that had taken her hungry fate to hold , and made of it a color and a fragrance . " Christmas is coming , little woman ! " Of course it was . If it had not taken the ...
... knew nothing better than the ignorant , loving heart , the horny hands that had taken her hungry fate to hold , and made of it a color and a fragrance . " Christmas is coming , little woman ! " Of course it was . If it had not taken the ...
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... knew the story well . " She went away with him ? " soft- " Yes , she did . I don't blame her . She was young , unlarned . No man cared for our souls . So , when she lov- ed him well , she thort God spoke to her . So she was tuk from me ...
... knew the story well . " She went away with him ? " soft- " Yes , she did . I don't blame her . She was young , unlarned . No man cared for our souls . So , when she lov- ed him well , she thort God spoke to her . So she was tuk from me ...
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... knew from experience . Besides , they had seen her , when provoked , fall in some cellar - door in a livid dead spasm . They were afraid of her . Her filthy , wet skirt flapped against her feet , as she went up ; she pulled her ...
... knew from experience . Besides , they had seen her , when provoked , fall in some cellar - door in a livid dead spasm . They were afraid of her . Her filthy , wet skirt flapped against her feet , as she went up ; she pulled her ...
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Page 501 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 70 - No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
Page 110 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of Nature, that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 110 - But, not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other — though last, not least: the new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution — African slavery as it exists among us — the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and the present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the 'rock upon which...
Page 290 - THE VAGABONDS. WE are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog : — come here, you scamp ! Jump for the gentlemen, — mind your eye ! Over the table, — look out for the lamp ! — The rogue is growing a little old ; Five years we've tramped through wind and weather, And slept out-doors when nights were cold, And ate and drank — and starved together.
Page 291 - There isn't another creature living Would do it, and prove, through every disaster, So fond, so faithful, and so forgiving, To such a miserable, thankless master ! No, Sir ! see him wag his tail, and grin ! By George ! it makes my old eyes water...
Page 85 - If there be some weaker one, Give me strength to help him on ; If a blinder soul there be, Let me guide him nearer Thee. Make my mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ; Let me find in Thy employ Peace that dearer is than joy ; Out of self to love be led And to heaven acclimated, Until all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude.
Page 467 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 199 - I break your bonds and masterships, And I unchain the slave : Free be his heart and hand henceforth As wind and wandering wave. I cause from every creature His proper good to flow: As much as he is and doeth, So much he shall bestow.
Page 625 - Origin and History of the English Language, and of the early literature it embodies. By the Hon. George P. Marsh. US Minister at Turin, Author of " Lectures on the English Language.