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... sitting in that beautiful library at Brayton , with Skiddaw in full view from the windows . It was that very library that Coleridge described as one of the best in ' the kingdom for books of History and Natural History . " We had been ...
... sitting in that beautiful library at Brayton , with Skiddaw in full view from the windows . It was that very library that Coleridge described as one of the best in ' the kingdom for books of History and Natural History . " We had been ...
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... sit in a saddle , he bought Peel's hounds , amalgamated them with a small pack which he already possessed , and became Master of the Cumberland Foxhounds . It is easy to conceive the popularity which now encircled the young Squire of ...
... sit in a saddle , he bought Peel's hounds , amalgamated them with a small pack which he already possessed , and became Master of the Cumberland Foxhounds . It is easy to conceive the popularity which now encircled the young Squire of ...
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... sitting in the carriage just outside the crowd , but near enough to the hustings to hear the speeches , and to rejoice when we found how thoroughly Wilfrid could make the people listen to him . I well remember how deadly pale he looked ...
... sitting in the carriage just outside the crowd , but near enough to the hustings to hear the speeches , and to rejoice when we found how thoroughly Wilfrid could make the people listen to him . I well remember how deadly pale he looked ...
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... sitting not far off , and cried " Shoo , " but she did not move , and on going up to her he found that she was frozen to her seat . " But , " he said , " they brought her into the saddle - room and set her down by the fire and she soon ...
... sitting not far off , and cried " Shoo , " but she did not move , and on going up to her he found that she was frozen to her seat . " But , " he said , " they brought her into the saddle - room and set her down by the fire and she soon ...
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... sitting next me , an Irish Lord whose name I forget at this moment , " Do you think they would hear me if I got up ? " " Oh yes , " he said , " they would hear you as a new Member . " So I took the plunge , like an inexperienced bather ...
... sitting next me , an Irish Lord whose name I forget at this moment , " Do you think they would hear me if I got up ? " " Oh yes , " he said , " they would hear you as a new Member . " So I took the plunge , like an inexperienced bather ...
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Page 180 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.
Page 67 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 134 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Page 56 - South; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made,— what is more than either,— they have made a nation.
Page 56 - We may have our own opinions about slavery; we may be for or against the South ; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army ; they are making, it appears, a navy ; and they have made what is more than either, they have made a nation.
Page 86 - The Queen is most anxious to enlist every-one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
Page 186 - Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh?
Page 22 - ... a year. Lodgers, graduates, ministers of religion, solicitors, doctors, and schoolmasters were, under certain conditions, enfranchised, and the Government proposed to recognize the principle of identity of suffrage between the counties and towns. Two members of the Government promptly resigned rather than be parties to these proposals. Lord John Russell moved an amendment condemning interference with the franchise which enabled freeholders in boroughs to vote in counties, and demanding a wider...