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... soon and easy ! " - or , " Why , there isn't many lone men ' ud ha ' been wish- ing to take up with a little un like that : but I reckon the weaving makes you handier than men as do out - door work - you're partly as handy as a woman ...
... soon and easy ! " - or , " Why , there isn't many lone men ' ud ha ' been wish- ing to take up with a little un like that : but I reckon the weaving makes you handier than men as do out - door work - you're partly as handy as a woman ...
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... soon shall win , For the bright Spirit at the gate Smiled as she gave that offering in , 1 " In the East , they suppose the Phoenix to have fifty orifices in his bill , which are continued to his tail ; and that , after living one ...
... soon shall win , For the bright Spirit at the gate Smiled as she gave that offering in , 1 " In the East , they suppose the Phoenix to have fifty orifices in his bill , which are continued to his tail ; and that , after living one ...
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... soon , An erring Spirit to the skies ! Cheer'd by this hope she bends her thither ; -- Still laughs the radiant eye of Heaven , Nor have the golden bowers of Even In the rich West begun to wither ; - When o'er the vale of BALBEC winging ...
... soon , An erring Spirit to the skies ! Cheer'd by this hope she bends her thither ; -- Still laughs the radiant eye of Heaven , Nor have the golden bowers of Even In the rich West begun to wither ; - When o'er the vale of BALBEC winging ...
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... soon after the affair of the South- sea Scheme . ] Industry is the natural sure way to wealth ; this is so true , that it is impossible an indus- trious free people should want the necessa- ries and comforts of life , or an idle enjoy ...
... soon after the affair of the South- sea Scheme . ] Industry is the natural sure way to wealth ; this is so true , that it is impossible an indus- trious free people should want the necessa- ries and comforts of life , or an idle enjoy ...
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... soon shall meet upon that shore , Where love is free from doubt and care , And thou and I shall part no more ! " Loud crowed the cock , the shadow fled , No more of Sandy could she see ; But soft the passing spirit said : " Sweet Mary ...
... soon shall meet upon that shore , Where love is free from doubt and care , And thou and I shall part no more ! " Loud crowed the cock , the shadow fled , No more of Sandy could she see ; But soft the passing spirit said : " Sweet Mary ...
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Page 37 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Page 65 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band: "Strike ! till the last armed foe expires ! Strike ! for your altars and your fires ! Strike ! for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land...
Page 65 - Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet-song and dance and wine, — And thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know or dream or fear Of agony, are thine.
Page 37 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret...
Page 103 - I REMEMBER, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!
Page 123 - But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Page 37 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!
Page 90 - By a daisy whose leaves spread, Shut when Titan goes to bed; Or a shady bush or tree She could more infuse in me, Than all nature's beauties can In some other wiser man.
Page 65 - Come to the bridal chamber, death ! Come to the mother when she feels For the first time her firstborn's breath ; — Come when the blessed seals Which close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke...
Page 62 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head...