The Planet, conducted by T. McNicollThomas M'Nicoll 1862 |
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... nights of bitter care , Like the poor dumb beast of burden , thou the white man's yoke must bear ; Thou must cut the white man's timber , thou must cut the white man's cane ; He grows fat upon our marrow , rich upon our sweat and pain ...
... nights of bitter care , Like the poor dumb beast of burden , thou the white man's yoke must bear ; Thou must cut the white man's timber , thou must cut the white man's cane ; He grows fat upon our marrow , rich upon our sweat and pain ...
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... night and day with the silently restless spirits of broken - hearted shareholders . It must not be supposed , that the prospect from John Penberthy's cottage window was a picture of the entire county . It was merely a remarkable variety ...
... night and day with the silently restless spirits of broken - hearted shareholders . It must not be supposed , that the prospect from John Penberthy's cottage window was a picture of the entire county . It was merely a remarkable variety ...
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... night that there was a flood coming again , like Noah's flood . You had gone to work , I thought , and as the waters were rising in our valley , I took my darling baby , and went over the hill to seek for you ; and as I was running ...
... night that there was a flood coming again , like Noah's flood . You had gone to work , I thought , and as the waters were rising in our valley , I took my darling baby , and went over the hill to seek for you ; and as I was running ...
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... night ; and it stays with one in the daylight , and seems to have a voice for one's very soul , as mine has even now ; there is something in it which I cannot trifle with , and I am sure you will not laugh at me for being uneasy , when ...
... night ; and it stays with one in the daylight , and seems to have a voice for one's very soul , as mine has even now ; there is something in it which I cannot trifle with , and I am sure you will not laugh at me for being uneasy , when ...
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... night , from whence could that come ? It was not clear that the strange instinctive feeling of impending evil which that dream had inspired , and so strongly fixed in her mind , was to be classed with foolish notions about twelve o ...
... night , from whence could that come ? It was not clear that the strange instinctive feeling of impending evil which that dream had inspired , and so strongly fixed in her mind , was to be classed with foolish notions about twelve o ...
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Page 134 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 265 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
Page 301 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 266 - God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 322 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
Page 141 - If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Page 265 - After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such pastime in the park? Smiling she answered me, ' I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas I good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 269 - Therefore, to ride comely; to run fair at the tilt or ring; to play at all weapons; to shoot fair in bow or surely in gun; to vault lustily; to run, to leap, to wrestle, to swim; to dance comely; to sing, and play...
Page 266 - It is your shame (I speak to you all, you young gentlemen of England) that one maid should go beyond you all, in excellency of learning and knowledge of divers tongues.
Page 266 - ... else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips...