Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays, المجلد 2J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... Sometimes , perchance , a very par- ticularly complaisant friend would laud the little off- springs of my pen ; but it did not gain me bread and butter , and could not satisfy the cravings of hungry na- ture . With a full heart and an ...
... Sometimes , perchance , a very par- ticularly complaisant friend would laud the little off- springs of my pen ; but it did not gain me bread and butter , and could not satisfy the cravings of hungry na- ture . With a full heart and an ...
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... sometimes at the style of apparel among their grandmothers ; but I am very certain the time will come when the dress which is now considered a model of elegant fashion , would set the world in a roar . Perhaps the effect upon persons ...
... sometimes at the style of apparel among their grandmothers ; but I am very certain the time will come when the dress which is now considered a model of elegant fashion , would set the world in a roar . Perhaps the effect upon persons ...
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... sometimes served up for the astonishment of the world . I have made a list of some of these , culled indiscri- minately from various papers , and hasten to give them to the public . " We take great pleasure in informing our readers that ...
... sometimes served up for the astonishment of the world . I have made a list of some of these , culled indiscri- minately from various papers , and hasten to give them to the public . " We take great pleasure in informing our readers that ...
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... Sometimes I have paced up and down my cage . I must have ex- ercise or I die , so I walked and leaped and stamped , to put my blood in motion . Then I laid down for hours , and thought . My past life has been all in review before me . I ...
... Sometimes I have paced up and down my cage . I must have ex- ercise or I die , so I walked and leaped and stamped , to put my blood in motion . Then I laid down for hours , and thought . My past life has been all in review before me . I ...
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... Sometimes I think they never had existence , except in my own brain , that I have never been outside this cavern , that nature placed me here , and that all the remembrances of man- kind , which crowd on me sometimes , are only dreams ...
... Sometimes I think they never had existence , except in my own brain , that I have never been outside this cavern , that nature placed me here , and that all the remembrances of man- kind , which crowd on me sometimes , are only dreams ...
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الصفحة 70 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
الصفحة 195 - But rise; let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere; but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe...
الصفحة 7 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
الصفحة 98 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
الصفحة 192 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
الصفحة 158 - My only strength and stay. Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
الصفحة 188 - That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
الصفحة 89 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
الصفحة 153 - And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged...
الصفحة 3 - The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes and gives.