The Early Life of Samuel RogersSmith, Elder, & Company, 1887 - 461 pages |
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... taken to South- gate , to see the Miss Birches , but not finding them at home she had gone on to Mrs. Jones's , on the Chase , where we were received in a very polite and friendly manner . It is quite a sweet situation , and the walking ...
... taken to South- gate , to see the Miss Birches , but not finding them at home she had gone on to Mrs. Jones's , on the Chase , where we were received in a very polite and friendly manner . It is quite a sweet situation , and the walking ...
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... taken his niece , who had been left an orphan , to be the companion of his only child , and she had lived with her all through her married life , assisting her in bearing the burden of her house- hold cares . Miss Mitchell was a capable ...
... taken his niece , who had been left an orphan , to be the companion of his only child , and she had lived with her all through her married life , assisting her in bearing the burden of her house- hold cares . Miss Mitchell was a capable ...
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... taken to prove . His household was conducted with the regularity which became the chief person in a Dissenting congrega- tion . He read prayers with his family in the morning , and they were regular in their attendance at the Stoke ...
... taken to prove . His household was conducted with the regularity which became the chief person in a Dissenting congrega- tion . He read prayers with his family in the morning , and they were regular in their attendance at the Stoke ...
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... taken place in the preceding summer , and the Declaration of Inde- pendence followed on the fourth of July , 1776 , about six months after the issue of Dr. Price's pamphlet . The time of its publication was , therefore , most opportune ...
... taken place in the preceding summer , and the Declaration of Inde- pendence followed on the fourth of July , 1776 , about six months after the issue of Dr. Price's pamphlet . The time of its publication was , therefore , most opportune ...
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... taken this earliest opportunity of answering your kind letter to my father by return of post . Few words are neces- sary to acquaint you with the state of the election . . . Yesterday and to - day the booth has been so encompassed with ...
... taken this earliest opportunity of answering your kind letter to my father by return of post . Few words are neces- sary to acquaint you with the state of the election . . . Yesterday and to - day the booth has been so encompassed with ...
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Page 221 - Her tattered mantle, and her hood of straw ; Her moving lips, her caldron brimming o'er ; The drowsy brood that on her back she bore, Imps, in the barn with mousing owlet bred, From rifled roost at nightly revel fed ; Whose dark eyes flashed through locks of blackest shade, When in the breeze the distant watch-dog bayed...
Page 223 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 408 - 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.
Page 304 - So spake the grisly Terror, and in shape, So speaking and so threatening, grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 237 - Ah ! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined ? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft will she rise — with searching glance pursue Some long-loved image vanished from her view; Dart thro...
Page 114 - I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Page 318 - An act for the safety and preservation of his Majesty's person and government against treasonable and seditious practices and attempts...
Page 25 - Locked in her arms, his arms across her flung, (That name most dear for ever on his tongue) As with soft accents round her neck he clings, And cheek to cheek, her lulling song she sings, How blest to feel the beatings of his heart, Breathe his sweet breath, and kiss for kiss impart ; Watch o'er his slumbers like the brooding dove, And, if she can, exhaust a mother's love ! But soon a nobler task demands her care.
Page 61 - ... him at his birth what most he values, A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting, For poetry, the language of the gods, For all things here, or grand or beautiful, A setting sun, a lake among the mountains, The light of an ingenuous countenance, And what transcends them all, a noble action. Nature denied him much, but gave him more; And ever, ever grateful should he be, Though from his cheek, ere yet the down was there, Health fled ; for in his heaviest hours would come Gleams such as come...
Page 114 - THE angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear...