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... nature , when I found myself returning from a few weeks ' tour without meeting a single inci- dent which appeared either to deserve or demand a place of memoranda in a traveller's portfolio ; no , nor even enough to form a " charming ...
... nature , when I found myself returning from a few weeks ' tour without meeting a single inci- dent which appeared either to deserve or demand a place of memoranda in a traveller's portfolio ; no , nor even enough to form a " charming ...
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John Young (M.A.). but I was not a poet , -nature herself had entered her protest against my being admitted among the tuneful number . I was then , and still am , unable to define distinctly the cause of the feeling pro- duced . I ...
John Young (M.A.). but I was not a poet , -nature herself had entered her protest against my being admitted among the tuneful number . I was then , and still am , unable to define distinctly the cause of the feeling pro- duced . I ...
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... nature , that the cuckoo - clock in the kitchen was repeating its monotonous sound ten successive times , as I entered the parlour the next morning . Some of the best Turkey - that is a decoction of it - the house afforded , highly ...
... nature , that the cuckoo - clock in the kitchen was repeating its monotonous sound ten successive times , as I entered the parlour the next morning . Some of the best Turkey - that is a decoction of it - the house afforded , highly ...
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... the signs of the gradual and easy wearing out of nature , but such as the rough - barbed tool of heartfelt sorrow would be likely to produce . Still there was a placidity - a resignation of a nameless 20 THE BROTHERS .
... the signs of the gradual and easy wearing out of nature , but such as the rough - barbed tool of heartfelt sorrow would be likely to produce . Still there was a placidity - a resignation of a nameless 20 THE BROTHERS .
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... nature had in part relieved herself , I attempted an apology for the grief I had innocently occasioned . He perceived my intention , and , with a smile of dig- nified urbanity , assured me that an apology was not necessary . " Your ...
... nature had in part relieved herself , I attempted an apology for the grief I had innocently occasioned . He perceived my intention , and , with a smile of dig- nified urbanity , assured me that an apology was not necessary . " Your ...
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abode Adolphus affection affectionate agony Alfred anxiety appeared arms attention awhile beauty became beheld Belmont beloved bosom bright eye brother Captain cation cerned character charms cheek cheerful child Chowanskoi circumstances conduct countenance dear death ears Egbert Emma engaged entered Eudocia Eustace exclaimed father favoured fear feelings fell felt Freeport frequently friendship furnished gazed gentle gentleman George O'Brien Wyndham Gibraltar Gilbert grief habit hand happy Harmer heard heart honour Hugglescote instantly Lake Erie Laura looked Lord Exmouth marriage mind morning mother nature never noble observed occasion Ohobyholio Olivia Overreach parents passed perceived period person pleasure possessed present racter reached received retired river Avon rose scarcely scenes seat seemed silent smile Sobiesky soon sorrow soul spirit stood stranger tale tears things thought threw town trafficker in human turned uncon Valdai voice walked Waltingham wife youth
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الصفحة 86 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
الصفحة 112 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, At the presence of the LORD of the whole earth.
الصفحة 211 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
الصفحة 69 - A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again : pronounce a text, Cry, hem ! and, reading -what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
الصفحة 72 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
الصفحة 209 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
الصفحة 205 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
الصفحة 14 - To set before your sight your glorious race, That this presaging joy may fire your mind To seek the shores by destiny design'd." — "O father, can it be, that souls sublime Return to visit our terrestrial clime, And that the gen'rous mind, releas'd by death, Can covet lazy limbs and mortal breath?
الصفحة 309 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
الصفحة 197 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.