Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays, المجلد 2J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... strange variety of life , they happen to get a good dinner . My friend , who had delighted me with his volu- bility of speech , no sooner perceived that the prepara- tions were ended , than he fell upon his defenceless prize like a lion ...
... strange variety of life , they happen to get a good dinner . My friend , who had delighted me with his volu- bility of speech , no sooner perceived that the prepara- tions were ended , than he fell upon his defenceless prize like a lion ...
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... strange combination of various sensations gives me a new confidence to brave the storms of life , and to look back upon the dangers already passed . And now , that I am comparatively composed , and have time to think , will you do me ...
... strange combination of various sensations gives me a new confidence to brave the storms of life , and to look back upon the dangers already passed . And now , that I am comparatively composed , and have time to think , will you do me ...
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... strange state of affairs , but it is the true one , that a young lady who would now presume to dress with simplicity and natural grace , would become an object of absolute ridicule . They laugh sometimes at the style of apparel among ...
... strange state of affairs , but it is the true one , that a young lady who would now presume to dress with simplicity and natural grace , would become an object of absolute ridicule . They laugh sometimes at the style of apparel among ...
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... strange eyes fastened on me - my brain teems with them all yet , with dreadful vividness and reality . I cannot close my eyes against them . I cannot drive them from my imagination . Sleep itself affords me no cessation , for they pass ...
... strange eyes fastened on me - my brain teems with them all yet , with dreadful vividness and reality . I cannot close my eyes against them . I cannot drive them from my imagination . Sleep itself affords me no cessation , for they pass ...
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... strange to feel that it is nothing whatever to me , unless it would roll these stupendous towers from their base , and restore a poor wretch to the blessed , blessed light of day . is extremely distressing , but I cannot at this moment ...
... strange to feel that it is nothing whatever to me , unless it would roll these stupendous towers from their base , and restore a poor wretch to the blessed , blessed light of day . is extremely distressing , but I cannot at this moment ...
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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.