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... fire was just lighted , and the tent up . The place was a plain , flat , unpretending , dark , grass- green field . The hedge ran in a straight line along the top of it , paral- lel with the horizon , a few ill - grown , scrubby ...
... fire was just lighted , and the tent up . The place was a plain , flat , unpretending , dark , grass- green field . The hedge ran in a straight line along the top of it , paral- lel with the horizon , a few ill - grown , scrubby ...
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... , much more that of a man of genius , like Bewick , to run even the remotest risk of being put into the parlour fire to please " The Ladies . " disabilities . Proofs , therefore , to show that they 1825. ] Thomas Bewick . 5.
... , much more that of a man of genius , like Bewick , to run even the remotest risk of being put into the parlour fire to please " The Ladies . " disabilities . Proofs , therefore , to show that they 1825. ] Thomas Bewick . 5.
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... fire . " Good Hea- ven ! " he exclaims , " what a consump- tion of coals ! -The fire is ruinous , and must be quenched . " He then glances at the pump for supplying the water for condensation . The fools , " he groans , " what a loss of ...
... fire . " Good Hea- ven ! " he exclaims , " what a consump- tion of coals ! -The fire is ruinous , and must be quenched . " He then glances at the pump for supplying the water for condensation . The fools , " he groans , " what a loss of ...
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... fire , is new ; but we doubt whether the ori- ginal inventor would claim the addi- tion . . Among other of the gay and gloomy imaginations dispersed all over the world , is that of the fairies . The pyg- mies of old , riding on ram ...
... fire , is new ; but we doubt whether the ori- ginal inventor would claim the addi- tion . . Among other of the gay and gloomy imaginations dispersed all over the world , is that of the fairies . The pyg- mies of old , riding on ram ...
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... fire . Then in a moment she would change into a lit- tle man , lame of a leg , with a bull's head , and a lambent flame playing round it . Then into a great ape , with duck's feet and a turkeycock's tail . But I should be all day about ...
... fire . Then in a moment she would change into a lit- tle man , lame of a leg , with a bull's head , and a lambent flame playing round it . Then into a great ape , with duck's feet and a turkeycock's tail . But I should be all day about ...
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Page 131 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 174 - As he would have taken a ball in his breast,' replied Lord George. 'For he opened his arms, exclaiming wildly, as he paced up and down the apartment during a few minutes: "O God! it is all over!
Page 479 - Where now thy might, which all those kings subdued ? No martial myriads muster in thy gate ; No suppliant nations in thy temple wait : No...
Page 551 - Our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his Church, to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences : and by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Page 541 - Long, as to him who works for debt, the day, Long as the night to her whose love's away, Long as the year's dull circle seems to run, When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one: So slow th...
Page 359 - Little he deem'd when with his Indian band He through the wilds set forth upon his way, A Poet then unborn, and in a land Which had proscribed his order, should one day Take up from thence his moralizing lay, And shape a song that, with no fiction drest, Should to his worth its grateful tribute pay, And sinking deep in many an English breast, Foster that faith divine that keeps the heart at rest.
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Page 479 - While suns unblest their angry lustre fling, And wayworn pilgrims seek the scanty spring ? Where now thy pomp which kings with envy...
Page 471 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep, who can.
Page 547 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.