The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, Volume 2William Blackwood, 1829 |
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... once more awakened , dreams of ambition mingled in my slum- bers , and hopes of future honour and distinction brightened my waking contemplations . I would have instantly set about the work of preparation , but a new and unexpected ...
... once more awakened , dreams of ambition mingled in my slum- bers , and hopes of future honour and distinction brightened my waking contemplations . I would have instantly set about the work of preparation , but a new and unexpected ...
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... once occurred to me , my spirits , which for some time had been at zero , suddenly remounted to their usual height ; and my path , which but a moment before seemed to lead along a desert , dreary and limitless , was suddenly begirt by ...
... once occurred to me , my spirits , which for some time had been at zero , suddenly remounted to their usual height ; and my path , which but a moment before seemed to lead along a desert , dreary and limitless , was suddenly begirt by ...
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... once laid open the whole secret of my errors . I in- troduced no studied palliations of my conduct , and nothing could be more undisguised and veracious than the narrative of my unfortunate debut on en- tering the great world into which ...
... once laid open the whole secret of my errors . I in- troduced no studied palliations of my conduct , and nothing could be more undisguised and veracious than the narrative of my unfortunate debut on en- tering the great world into which ...
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... once . It was some time before I opened the letter , for doubt and misgiving had taken possession of my heart , and I laid it on the table , to afford time for breath and reflection before I broke the seal . I imagined that reflection ...
... once . It was some time before I opened the letter , for doubt and misgiving had taken possession of my heart , and I laid it on the table , to afford time for breath and reflection before I broke the seal . I imagined that reflection ...
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... once liberated me from the trammels of difficulties which might have operated injuriously on my future prospects . For the first time in my life I had in- curred a pecuniary obligation , yet the novelty nei- ther wounded my pride , nor ...
... once liberated me from the trammels of difficulties which might have operated injuriously on my future prospects . For the first time in my life I had in- curred a pecuniary obligation , yet the novelty nei- ther wounded my pride , nor ...
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Page 164 - O, it is monstrous ! monstrous ! Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it ; The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper ; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page 334 - I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 318 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 116 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 284 - I see, men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes ; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.
Page 300 - Those are like wax — apply them to the fire, Melting, they take th' impressions you desire; Easy to mould, and fashion as you please, And again moulded with an equal ease : Like smelted iron these the forms retain, But once impress'd will never melt again.
Page 114 - Of its clear streams, though unregarded now ; Ophirs more rich are found. With easy course 'The vessels glide ; unless their speed be stopp'd By. dead calms, that oft lie on those smooth seas While every zephyr sleeps ; then the shrouds drop; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not; the flat sea shines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor 'Of some old temple wide. But where so wide, In old or later time, its marble floor Did ever temple boast as this, which here...
Page 149 - ... Colonel Hamilton, the portrait of him in his later years, vividly sketched by an eyewitness, and, it would seem, personal friend. He is described as being then at the age of sixty-seven remarkably handsome, and giving the impression of a man who had been distinguished both in camp and court : — • He was a bachelor, and had always been noted as a gay man — too gay a man, perhaps, to have ever thought of narrowing his liberty by the imposition of the trammels of wedlock ; notwithstanding...
Page 112 - I thought that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.