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... play Jaffier , and you , my exquisite Pierre , as a pundit would call a peer - will have to regret your plot was in the hands of a mis - guided man ; for that Miss Avondale , whom I have not lately met , notwithstanding her de- mure ...
... play Jaffier , and you , my exquisite Pierre , as a pundit would call a peer - will have to regret your plot was in the hands of a mis - guided man ; for that Miss Avondale , whom I have not lately met , notwithstanding her de- mure ...
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... play his party false ? " " Yes , " said Burrell , " and William Aubrey is to go out am- bassador to the moon , or envoy extraordinary to the king of the snow - mountains , a thing I don't dislike . You know we are rather rivals in the ...
... play his party false ? " " Yes , " said Burrell , " and William Aubrey is to go out am- bassador to the moon , or envoy extraordinary to the king of the snow - mountains , a thing I don't dislike . You know we are rather rivals in the ...
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... playing , and telling , and lying - the nine Muses , with Momus for their Apollo - sanctify the scene and make it the happiest hour in the life of an Hibernian . Not only is such ' rude wassail ' not forbidden by the friends and ...
... playing , and telling , and lying - the nine Muses , with Momus for their Apollo - sanctify the scene and make it the happiest hour in the life of an Hibernian . Not only is such ' rude wassail ' not forbidden by the friends and ...
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... play ; When fashion , with her soft delusive power , Attracts thee to her roseate bower , Forget me not ! When other friends around thee smile , Thy charms admire , thy heart beguile ; May morning paint a friend so dear , Whose words ...
... play ; When fashion , with her soft delusive power , Attracts thee to her roseate bower , Forget me not ! When other friends around thee smile , Thy charms admire , thy heart beguile ; May morning paint a friend so dear , Whose words ...
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... played . But where are now the charms of boyhood's day , And where the friends of youth , Oh ! where are they ? Alas ! one joy alone is mine- Fond mem'ry's tear for Auld Lang Syne . Oft did I come to woo the morning's air , To listen to ...
... played . But where are now the charms of boyhood's day , And where the friends of youth , Oh ! where are they ? Alas ! one joy alone is mine- Fond mem'ry's tear for Auld Lang Syne . Oft did I come to woo the morning's air , To listen to ...
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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...