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... Heaven forgive the girl ! but true love was not in her nature , and how can people see further than their lights go ? —I was soon pretty certain that fate would decide the marriage question in favour of the baronet . As Lotty said ...
... Heaven forgive the girl ! but true love was not in her nature , and how can people see further than their lights go ? —I was soon pretty certain that fate would decide the marriage question in favour of the baronet . As Lotty said ...
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... Heaven and each other for our life and our love . One , indissolubly , whether we were ever married or not ; one in ... heavens ! Was there ever any creature so blind as a middle - aged elder brother ! Well , as I told Launceston , it ...
... Heaven and each other for our life and our love . One , indissolubly , whether we were ever married or not ; one in ... heavens ! Was there ever any creature so blind as a middle - aged elder brother ! Well , as I told Launceston , it ...
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... heaven he paid his respects to Juno before all the other divinities . The whole heaven and Juno were astonished . Dost thou show such preference to thine enemy ? Yes , replied Hercules , even to her . It was her persecution alone that ...
... heaven he paid his respects to Juno before all the other divinities . The whole heaven and Juno were astonished . Dost thou show such preference to thine enemy ? Yes , replied Hercules , even to her . It was her persecution alone that ...
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... heaven bright . When gentle Una saw the second fall Of her deare knight , who , weary of long fight And faint through losse of blood , moov'd not at all , But lay , as in a dreame of deepe delight , Besmeard with pretious Balme , whose ...
... heaven bright . When gentle Una saw the second fall Of her deare knight , who , weary of long fight And faint through losse of blood , moov'd not at all , But lay , as in a dreame of deepe delight , Besmeard with pretious Balme , whose ...
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... Heaven , Amid the mountains lone , For the mercy of the present hour , And for the mercies shown To him and his continually , In the seasons that are gone . His little grandson calmly views The tempest gathering round ; For though the ...
... Heaven , Amid the mountains lone , For the mercy of the present hour , And for the mercies shown To him and his continually , In the seasons that are gone . His little grandson calmly views The tempest gathering round ; For though the ...
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Page 325 - Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy. "The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 180 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 261 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
Page 261 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
Page 261 - While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide the effects, by negotiation.
Page 335 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. /But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, | and...
Page 283 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame. The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses and churches, was like an hideous storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed that at the last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forced to stand still and let the flames burn on, which they did for near two miles in length and one in breadth.
Page xiv - Or find some ruin midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds or driving rain Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires ; And hears their simple bell ; and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 325 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page xiv - O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With short, shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...