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... face in the glass , and then sighing , answered him with " Spare your badinage , you are an old and privileged friend , for we have known each other from our cradles , and I dare tell you that which I have scarcely told myself , that I ...
... face in the glass , and then sighing , answered him with " Spare your badinage , you are an old and privileged friend , for we have known each other from our cradles , and I dare tell you that which I have scarcely told myself , that I ...
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... face , the only part visible above the covering , showed clean be- neath a snowy mob - cap . Upon the corpse were ... faces turned inwards , and each with a well - filled dudeen * between her teeth , sat four old crones , who alone ...
... face , the only part visible above the covering , showed clean be- neath a snowy mob - cap . Upon the corpse were ... faces turned inwards , and each with a well - filled dudeen * between her teeth , sat four old crones , who alone ...
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... face - but how is it possible to do justice to the expression of a countenance , beaming in all the glow of youth and innocence ? Reader , if a love of female beauty has ever been implanted in your mind , picture to yourself the fairest ...
... face - but how is it possible to do justice to the expression of a countenance , beaming in all the glow of youth and innocence ? Reader , if a love of female beauty has ever been implanted in your mind , picture to yourself the fairest ...
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... face , in shape and colour , resembles the sun in a November fog ; and from its redness he hath derived the cogno- men of Bardolph , by which he shall be recognised throughout these papers . Being of a jovial nature and sociable ...
... face , in shape and colour , resembles the sun in a November fog ; and from its redness he hath derived the cogno- men of Bardolph , by which he shall be recognised throughout these papers . Being of a jovial nature and sociable ...
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... face of Bonitas , eloquent with delight - the crimson nose of the landlord adding richness to the landscape - the flashing eye of Sparkle , or his echoing laugh - the countenance of Burnchurch , hesitating be- tween gravity and ...
... face of Bonitas , eloquent with delight - the crimson nose of the landlord adding richness to the landscape - the flashing eye of Sparkle , or his echoing laugh - the countenance of Burnchurch , hesitating be- tween gravity and ...
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Page 268 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...
Page 287 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Page 337 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Page 268 - Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements!
Page 284 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
Page 129 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 129 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Page 271 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 267 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...