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... hour they sat talking by the fire , but as soon as they got into bed Pennie fell into the sleep of healthful ... hours that would soon be upon them in the short December day . Under the firs , ladened with their frozen white Christmas ...
... hour they sat talking by the fire , but as soon as they got into bed Pennie fell into the sleep of healthful ... hours that would soon be upon them in the short December day . Under the firs , ladened with their frozen white Christmas ...
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... hour at the station . On he must go . He got nearer and nearer , stumbling and panting . The door of the chief hut was reached , and he sank fainting across the threshold . Every attention was paid to the two men . Ladbury soon ...
... hour at the station . On he must go . He got nearer and nearer , stumbling and panting . The door of the chief hut was reached , and he sank fainting across the threshold . Every attention was paid to the two men . Ladbury soon ...
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... hours ' concert at St. James's Hall , even were all the talent of Europe assembled to charm you : what would you do ... hour after sunset , and which fishermen call the " sough . " It is neither the noise of the wind , nor of the waves ...
... hours ' concert at St. James's Hall , even were all the talent of Europe assembled to charm you : what would you do ... hour after sunset , and which fishermen call the " sough . " It is neither the noise of the wind , nor of the waves ...
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... hour have I spent under the great spreading olive trees , picking up the olives that fell accidentally , or that my father knocked from the branches with a long cane . " My dear mother thought by keeping me employed to keep me out of ...
... hour have I spent under the great spreading olive trees , picking up the olives that fell accidentally , or that my father knocked from the branches with a long cane . " My dear mother thought by keeping me employed to keep me out of ...
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... hour's warning . Hargrove went with him . " 66 And you have been four days quite by yourself , mamma ? " " It is not known in the house yet that he may not return . Nurse guesses , perhaps ; but of course- She ceased . There is always a ...
... hour's warning . Hargrove went with him . " 66 And you have been four days quite by yourself , mamma ? " " It is not known in the house yet that he may not return . Nurse guesses , perhaps ; but of course- She ceased . There is always a ...
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Page 22 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?
Page 22 - Teaches thy way along that pathless coast— The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply...
Page 90 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Page 91 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he 'Would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.
Page 22 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 118 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care, No children run to lisp their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 22 - and tell you a truth which,- perchance, ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence...
Page 13 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 91 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Page 242 - God knows best! he was somebody's love: Somebody's heart enshrined him there; Somebody wafted his name above, Night and morn, on the wings of prayer. Somebody wept when he marched away, Looking so handsome, brave, and grand; Somebody's kiss on his forehead lay; Somebody clung to his parting hand.