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... hand Was stretched , as it would reach a wretched stand Where some cold water stood ! And by the bed She knelt - and gazed - and saw her mother - dead ! Were there any thing like art in the effusions of L. E. L. , we should praise the ...
... hand Was stretched , as it would reach a wretched stand Where some cold water stood ! And by the bed She knelt - and gazed - and saw her mother - dead ! Were there any thing like art in the effusions of L. E. L. , we should praise the ...
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... hand , had a heart too much alive to human- ity , to risk the mischief so dangerous a propensity might occasion . After a few seconds given to consideration , therefore , he turned short by the way the animal had taken , not however ...
... hand , had a heart too much alive to human- ity , to risk the mischief so dangerous a propensity might occasion . After a few seconds given to consideration , therefore , he turned short by the way the animal had taken , not however ...
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... hand reverently upon his breast , and with the other made the usual sign of the cross . " Think not , holy Father , that our minds are evil in the midst of thank- fulness ! or that we would offer any disrespect at the foot of that ...
... hand reverently upon his breast , and with the other made the usual sign of the cross . " Think not , holy Father , that our minds are evil in the midst of thank- fulness ! or that we would offer any disrespect at the foot of that ...
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... hand gently upon her head , and blessing her . 66 Go , get thee gone , fair daughter , and bring thy father as early as thou wilt , for Whatton longs to greet him . " Isabel stayed not for farther per- mission , but , again crossing her ...
... hand gently upon her head , and blessing her . 66 Go , get thee gone , fair daughter , and bring thy father as early as thou wilt , for Whatton longs to greet him . " Isabel stayed not for farther per- mission , but , again crossing her ...
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... hand- some man of fifty , for whom ( on ac- count of his age and the parental of- fice which he had discharged towards her ) she entertained more respect and esteem than admiration or impassion- ed feeling . He had a son of twenty- one ...
... hand- some man of fifty , for whom ( on ac- count of his age and the parental of- fice which he had discharged towards her ) she entertained more respect and esteem than admiration or impassion- ed feeling . He had a son of twenty- one ...
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2d series American animal appearance ATHENEUM VOL beautiful breath called Captain carbonic acid Carloman carronades character Charles Brockden Brown church colour dark daugh daughter death dress earth Elora England English eyes fair father feeling fire flowers French gaze Genoa give grave Greece hand head heard heart heaven honour hope horse hour James Lucas Yeo James Tompkins King Lady Leith late light living look Lord Byron ment mind morning mother nature ness never night o'er observed pass person poor racter replied round scene seemed seen ship side sigh Sir James Leith smile song soon spirit stone stood story stranger sweet tain tell thee thing thou thought tion truth turn Whatton whole wild Wilson Lowry woman words young youth
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Page 379 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 258 - Live not the stars and mountains ? Are the waves Without a spirit ? Are the dropping caves Without a feeling in their silent tears ? No, no ; they woo and clasp us to their spheres, Dissolve this clog and clod of clay before Its hour, and merge our soul in the great shore.
Page 479 - Was on the streams of Guadalquiver, To gold converting, one by one, The ripples of the mighty river, Beside me on the bank was seated A Seville girl, with auburn hair, And eyes that might the world have cheated, — A wild, bright, wicked, diamond pair ! She stooped, and wrote upon the sand, Just as the loving sun was going, With such a soft, small, shining hand, I could have sworn 't was silver flowing. Her words were three, and not one more, What could Diana's motto be ? The siren wrote upon the...
Page 479 - When words come down like dews unsought With gleams of deep enthusiast thought, And fancy in her heaven flies free — They come, my love, they come from thee.
Page 112 - PITY the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; Oh, give relief, and heaven will bless your store.
Page 263 - O'er beauty's fall ; Her praise resounds no more, when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day ; So music past is obsolete, And yet 'twas sweet, 'twas passing sweet, But now 'tis gone away...
Page 340 - is there not a window in your house on purpose for you to look through?" " For all that," resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here: and although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look out.
Page 340 - may I be allowed to inquire, if that exertion was at all fatiguing or disagreeable to you ?" " Not in the least," replied the pendulum; " it is not of six strokes that I complain, nor of sixty, but of millions.
Page 112 - Heaven has brought me to the state you see ; And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery.
Page 50 - ... repressed with a smile the hopes of his friends, and told them he had lived long enough. As his life drew near a close, the eager yet decorous solicitude of his fellow townsmen increased.