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... carried down the stream of events , but feel ourselves capable of buffeting at least with its waves , and perhaps of riding triumphantly over them : for why should we despair that the reason which has enabled us to subdue all nature to ...
... carried down the stream of events , but feel ourselves capable of buffeting at least with its waves , and perhaps of riding triumphantly over them : for why should we despair that the reason which has enabled us to subdue all nature to ...
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... carried two muskets on his shoulder . The moment he perceived me , he cried with a voice of thunder , " Priest , give me thy money , or thou art dead . " As I had nothing to give him , I made my apology in the most affecting manner : he ...
... carried two muskets on his shoulder . The moment he perceived me , he cried with a voice of thunder , " Priest , give me thy money , or thou art dead . " As I had nothing to give him , I made my apology in the most affecting manner : he ...
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... carried arms against those whose religion he professed , and whose hard fortune he pretended to deplore . Next day the colonel sent one of his domestics with my maid - servant to search for the treasure we had buried in the cellar , but ...
... carried arms against those whose religion he professed , and whose hard fortune he pretended to deplore . Next day the colonel sent one of his domestics with my maid - servant to search for the treasure we had buried in the cellar , but ...
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... carried the crown diamonds . What caused him so much solicitude about this portmanteau was his mistress's letters . Supper over , they left us . Our hosts slept below , we in the upper room , where we had supped . A loft raised some ...
... carried the crown diamonds . What caused him so much solicitude about this portmanteau was his mistress's letters . Supper over , they left us . Our hosts slept below , we in the upper room , where we had supped . A loft raised some ...
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... carry on the business of life to good advantage , without learning . " Johnson . Why , sir , that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance , this boy rows us as well without learning as if he ...
... carry on the business of life to good advantage , without learning . " Johnson . Why , sir , that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance , this boy rows us as well without learning as if he ...
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Page 251 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view...
Page 251 - The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like a star of heaven, In the broad daylight Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight...
Page 251 - THE poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth...
Page 28 - All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky, And its peculiar tint of yellow green : And still I gaze — and with how blank an eye...
Page 204 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 282 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset divides the sky with her — a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains ; heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the day joins the past Eternity; While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest...
Page 128 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.
Page 189 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they? With the years beyond the flood It is the signal that demands despatch: How much is to be done!
Page 42 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself ; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees any body else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Page 252 - I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks: "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do?" Father Abraham stood up and replied: "If you would have...