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" Orsini lived ; and long might'st thou have seen An old man wandering as in quest of something, Something he could not find — he knew not what. "
The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch ... - Page 327
by Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 460 pages
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Playtime with the poets: a selection of the best English poetry for the use ...

Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...Flung it away in battle with the Turk. Orsini lived ; and long was to be seen An old man wandering as in quest of something, Something he could not find...knew not what. When he was gone, the house remained awhile Silent and tenantless — then went to strangers. Full fifty years were past, and all forgot,...
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Selections in poetry, Volume 51

Selections - English poetry - 1863 - 192 pages
...in battle with the Turk . Her father lived ; and long might'st thou have seen An old man wand'ring as in quest of something, Something he could not find — he knew not what. When be was gone, the house remain 'd awhile Silent and tenantless — then went to strangers . Full fifty...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - English language - 1863 - 446 pages
...And flung it away in battle with the Turk. ' ' 11 And long might you have seen, An old man wandering, as in quest of something, Something he could not find — he knew not what." And where was Ginevra ? Half breathless with haste, she ran to an old gallery in the upper part of...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...something, Something he could not find — he knew not what. When he was gone, the house remained awhile Silent and tenantless — then went to strangers. Full fifty years were past, and all forgotten, When on an idle day, a day of search 'Mid the old lumber in the gallery, That mouldering...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...it away in battle with the Turks. Orsini lived ; and long might you have seen An old man wandering as in quest of something — Something he could not...knew not what. When he was gone, the house remained awhile Silent and tenantless, then went to strangers. Full fifty years were past and all forgotten,...
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Progressive Readers: A Class Book for the Use of Advanced Pupils ..., Issue 5

John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...away in battle with the Turk. Orsini lived ; — and long you might have seen An old man wandering as in "quest of something, Something he could not...knew not what. When he was gone, the house remained awhile Silent and tenantless, — then went to strangers. With here and thlre a pearl, an emerald-stone,...
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Select Readings from the Poets and Prose Writers of Every Country

James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...away in battle with the Turk. Her father lived ; and long might'st thou have seen An old man wandering as in quest of something, — Something he could not...— he knew not what. When he was gone, the house remain'd awhile Silent and tenantless — then went to strangers. Mid the old lumber in the gallery,...
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Select Academic Speaker: Containing a Large Number of New and Appropriate ...

Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...it away in battle with the Turk. Donati lived — and long might you have seen An old man wandering as in quest of something, Something he could not find...knew not what. When he was gone, the house remained awhile Silent and tenantless — then went to strangers. Full fifty years were past, and all forgotten,...
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Neighbors' Wives

John Townsend Trowbridge - Literary Criticism - 1867 - 328 pages
...chair, and growl at any one who approached it ; or, like the old man in the story, go about " Wandering as in quest of something, Something he could not find, — he knew not what;" — covered the chest in which his G-inevra was concealed. "What was singular, not all Faustina's attentions,...
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Other people's windows, Volume 2; Volume 199

James Hain Friswell - 1868 - 364 pages
...and all the more when in the street, sadly resembling the one he painted — ' An old man wandering as in quest of something, Something he could not find, he knew not what !' And so, if we live to be so old, my brothers, we shall be telling our tales over again with no laughter...
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