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... took down from a peg an ancient plum - col- oured coat of London make , and with relics of embroidery on its seams , cuffs , pocket - flabs , and button - holes , but lamentably worn and faded , patched at the elbows , tattered at the ...
... took down from a peg an ancient plum - col- oured coat of London make , and with relics of embroidery on its seams , cuffs , pocket - flabs , and button - holes , but lamentably worn and faded , patched at the elbows , tattered at the ...
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... took three or four more whiffs been no face at all , had already a thin , fan- of her pipe and smiled . stretched hand , the figure made a step forward their. obscure corner into the bar of sunshine . There it eddied and melted away ...
... took three or four more whiffs been no face at all , had already a thin , fan- of her pipe and smiled . stretched hand , the figure made a step forward their. obscure corner into the bar of sunshine . There it eddied and melted away ...
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... took the aspect of a gold- headed cane . " That gold head has as much sense in it as thine own , " said Mother Rigby , " and it will guide thee straight to worshipful Master Gookin's door . Get thee gone , my pretty pet , my darling ...
... took the aspect of a gold- headed cane . " That gold head has as much sense in it as thine own , " said Mother Rigby , " and it will guide thee straight to worshipful Master Gookin's door . Get thee gone , my pretty pet , my darling ...
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... took a richer depth of colouring ; there was a gleam and polish over his whole presence betokening the per- fect witchery of well - ordered manners . The maiden raised her eyes and suffered them to linger upon her companion with a ...
... took a richer depth of colouring ; there was a gleam and polish over his whole presence betokening the per- fect witchery of well - ordered manners . The maiden raised her eyes and suffered them to linger upon her companion with a ...
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... Took birth , and beat his blissful wings , It seem'd to lift her mind above All care for other earthly things ; But , oh , too lightly did she vow To leave for aye her happy nest ; And dreadful is the thought that now Assaults her weak ...
... Took birth , and beat his blissful wings , It seem'd to lift her mind above All care for other earthly things ; But , oh , too lightly did she vow To leave for aye her happy nest ; And dreadful is the thought that now Assaults her weak ...
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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...