The Spirit of the English MagazinesMonroe and Francis, 1831 - American periodicals |
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Page 9
How still this hour ! the mellow sun Withdraws his western ray , And , evening's haven almost won , He leaves the seas of day : Soft is the twilight reign , and calm , As o'er autumnal fields of balm The languid zephyrs stray ; Across ...
How still this hour ! the mellow sun Withdraws his western ray , And , evening's haven almost won , He leaves the seas of day : Soft is the twilight reign , and calm , As o'er autumnal fields of balm The languid zephyrs stray ; Across ...
Page 14
... before , and at a small distance from he thought , by the knowledge of them , nearer to the wall , stood the the worst , he sat ruminating , hour one he had noticed the first night . after hour , yielding his fears in It was filled ...
... before , and at a small distance from he thought , by the knowledge of them , nearer to the wall , stood the the worst , he sat ruminating , hour one he had noticed the first night . after hour , yielding his fears in It was filled ...
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The for more than an hour , when that sound was so close and stunning , deafening bell beat again , and again that it seemed to shatter his very there came the crash of horrid brain , while it echoed through the death .
The for more than an hour , when that sound was so close and stunning , deafening bell beat again , and again that it seemed to shatter his very there came the crash of horrid brain , while it echoed through the death .
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I thank Al- Cumming Bruce , of Dunphail , who mighty God that supported me in prevailed on his wife and daughter that hour of trial . I felt calm and to repair to the house of a friend . collected , and my assistant was no Before doing ...
I thank Al- Cumming Bruce , of Dunphail , who mighty God that supported me in prevailed on his wife and daughter that hour of trial . I felt calm and to repair to the house of a friend . collected , and my assistant was no Before doing ...
Page 36
... -and now nearly her all was gone ; under circumstances so terrible , is for , when I visited her farm , not a as unquestionable as it is wonderful . vestige of new or of old crop was It had stopt at a quarter of an hour left .
... -and now nearly her all was gone ; under circumstances so terrible , is for , when I visited her farm , not a as unquestionable as it is wonderful . vestige of new or of old crop was It had stopt at a quarter of an hour left .
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