Once a Week, Volume 2; Volume 15Eneas Sweetland Dallas Bradbury and Evans, 1866 - England |
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... wish she would go - I do wish she would , " Olivine broke out , passionately . " Really , truly , you say that , not as a mere passing wish , but from your very heart ? " " From the bottom of my heart , Mr. Forbes ; and if she goes now ...
... wish she would go - I do wish she would , " Olivine broke out , passionately . " Really , truly , you say that , not as a mere passing wish , but from your very heart ? " " From the bottom of my heart , Mr. Forbes ; and if she goes now ...
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... wish he had not gone , " she was wont to sigh ; but Percy knew what was best in the matter , | and , keeping himself out of the way of temp- tation , left the house free for Olivine to do as she liked in . 66 Shan't you be glad ...
... wish he had not gone , " she was wont to sigh ; but Percy knew what was best in the matter , | and , keeping himself out of the way of temp- tation , left the house free for Olivine to do as she liked in . 66 Shan't you be glad ...
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... wish to describe Whitsuntide in Mexico . Let us mark the proceedings . It is a moment of solemnity ! The dealer , with a dexterity and coolness worthy of a better cause , shuffles the little book of fortune in an almost imperceptible ...
... wish to describe Whitsuntide in Mexico . Let us mark the proceedings . It is a moment of solemnity ! The dealer , with a dexterity and coolness worthy of a better cause , shuffles the little book of fortune in an almost imperceptible ...
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... wish is in him - inclose every acre . But the law mercifully restrains him , and so , en revanche , he contents himself with undermining this beautiful heather - clad , gorse - covered hill , by digging out , carting away , and selling ...
... wish is in him - inclose every acre . But the law mercifully restrains him , and so , en revanche , he contents himself with undermining this beautiful heather - clad , gorse - covered hill , by digging out , carting away , and selling ...
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... wish to push their rights beyond the sacred limits of truth and justice . The lord of the manor of Banstead , Mr. T. Alcock , has offered to make a gratuitous grant of his manorial rights in the soil of 1,400 acres , forming the waste ...
... wish to push their rights beyond the sacred limits of truth and justice . The lord of the manor of Banstead , Mr. T. Alcock , has offered to make a gratuitous grant of his manorial rights in the soil of 1,400 acres , forming the waste ...
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Page 44 - Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
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Page 178 - There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy.
Page 86 - I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee...
Page 251 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Page 230 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
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Page 210 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Page 417 - Thou cheerful Bee ! come, freely come, And travel round my woodbine bower ! Delight me with thy wandering hum, And rouse me from my musing hour ; Oh ! try no more those tedious fields, Come taste the sweets my garden yields : The treasures of each blooming mine, The bud, the blossom, — all are thine.
Page 201 - Be ye certain all seems love, Viewed from Allah's throne above; Be ye stout of heart, and come Bravely onward to your home! La Allah ilia Allah!