Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays, المجلد 2J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... youth , without the slenderest hope of freedom , cooped up among everlasting mountains , beneath which Atlas himself might have groaned in vain . What was I to do ? He must be released . The audience would expect it , as a common ...
... youth , without the slenderest hope of freedom , cooped up among everlasting mountains , beneath which Atlas himself might have groaned in vain . What was I to do ? He must be released . The audience would expect it , as a common ...
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... youth entering with a pair of sleeves to his coat re- sembling two inflated balloons , and magnifying his arms into several times the dimensions of his body . Suppose the same taste which led him to extend the size of his arms , should ...
... youth entering with a pair of sleeves to his coat re- sembling two inflated balloons , and magnifying his arms into several times the dimensions of his body . Suppose the same taste which led him to extend the size of his arms , should ...
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... youth -- of my mother . While I write , the big tears are bursting out from my swollen eyes , and coursing each other down my cheeks . They fall , like the heavy drops of a shower , on the paper . Well , let them . It is fitting it ...
... youth -- of my mother . While I write , the big tears are bursting out from my swollen eyes , and coursing each other down my cheeks . They fall , like the heavy drops of a shower , on the paper . Well , let them . It is fitting it ...
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... youth placed in a counting - house , where mere business had occupied all his time ? He would have been lost to the world ; and so thousands must be because they do not strive - they do not seek to labor up the dazzling steep , but are ...
... youth placed in a counting - house , where mere business had occupied all his time ? He would have been lost to the world ; and so thousands must be because they do not strive - they do not seek to labor up the dazzling steep , but are ...
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... youth - comma - future happiness - welfare in life ; it's all pointed . Take it up . I'll just look over this review , and have it ready in ten minutes . " And at it I went . The article I found to be tolerably well written ; but the ...
... youth - comma - future happiness - welfare in life ; it's all pointed . Take it up . I'll just look over this review , and have it ready in ten minutes . " And at it I went . The article I found to be tolerably well written ; but the ...
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admiration appeared atheism beautiful behold bosom breath bright bright eyes burst character charm chirography choly clouds creature crowd dark dear delight door dream dress ears editor eyes face fancy fashion father fear feelings fellow flashing floating flowers gaze gentle gentleman glance glowing graceful green hand happy head heard heart heaven hope horror human human voice hushed imagination innu kind leaves light lips little trumpeter live lofty look magnificent melan mind morning nature never night Obadiah once paper passed passion pericranium pleasure poor rose ruined scarcely scene shadows sky at night smile sometimes soul spirit Stanly steam boat strange street struck sublime sweet taste ten chances theatre thing Thomas Jenkins thought thunder tion trumpet uncon voice walked Walter Scott Washington Irving whiskers wish wonder wretched young youth
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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.