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... head was covered by a blue cloth cap , having a gilt band and the royal emblems . Over his shoulders was thrown a cloak of mottled seal- skins , lined with the warm and beauti- ful fur of the Arctic fox . His cleanly shaven face was ...
... head was covered by a blue cloth cap , having a gilt band and the royal emblems . Over his shoulders was thrown a cloak of mottled seal- skins , lined with the warm and beauti- ful fur of the Arctic fox . His cleanly shaven face was ...
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... head slightly thrown back and his eyes on hers . She had sat quietly in her sad- dle , returning his gaze . He had spoken slowly and deliberately ; but without hesitation and without heat . " This is not romance , " thought Gertrude ...
... head slightly thrown back and his eyes on hers . She had sat quietly in her sad- dle , returning his gaze . He had spoken slowly and deliberately ; but without hesitation and without heat . " This is not romance , " thought Gertrude ...
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... head about , started up his oxen with his voice , and walked along beside her on the grassy roadside , with one hand in the horse's mane , and the other swinging his whip . Before they reached the yard - gate , Gertrude had revolved his ...
... head about , started up his oxen with his voice , and walked along beside her on the grassy roadside , with one hand in the horse's mane , and the other swinging his whip . Before they reached the yard - gate , Gertrude had revolved his ...
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... head pierced with holes and the other head knocked out . The end without a head was set upon a circle of stones , which supported it about a foot above the ground , and inside of this circle a great volume of smoke was being generated ...
... head pierced with holes and the other head knocked out . The end without a head was set upon a circle of stones , which supported it about a foot above the ground , and inside of this circle a great volume of smoke was being generated ...
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... head , were incongruities that drew more than one pair of curious eyes towards him . He was evidently an American , the New England cut of countenance is unmistakable , evidently a man who had seen something of the world ; but strangely ...
... head , were incongruities that drew more than one pair of curious eyes towards him . He was evidently an American , the New England cut of countenance is unmistakable , evidently a man who had seen something of the world ; but strangely ...
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Page 252 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 425 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 109 - Yes, trust them not; for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute Johannes factotum is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 215 - BY the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead ; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day ; — Under the one, the Blue ; Under the other, the Gray.
Page 253 - Leave me ! There's something come into my thought, That must and shall be sung high and aloof \ Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof.
Page 30 - ... clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me. He travels, and I too. I tread his deck, Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes Discover countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes ; While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
Page 109 - Shakespeare's poems the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace. Each in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the other. At length in the drama they were reconciled, and fought each with its shield before the breast of the other.
Page 216 - Sadly, but not with upbraiding, The generous deed was done, In the storm of the years that are fading, No braver battle was won . Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the blossoms, the Blue, Under the garlands, the Gray.
Page 215 - From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with flowers Alike for the friend and the foe ; — Under the sod and the clew, Waiting the judgment day ; — Under the roses, the Blue ; Under the lilies, the Gray.
Page 159 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.