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... hope you will see cause to change your mind , ' replied the master of the house , as he prepared to accede to Leonard's wish to ascertain in what relation they stood to each other in money matters . Before , however , he consulted his ...
... hope you will see cause to change your mind , ' replied the master of the house , as he prepared to accede to Leonard's wish to ascertain in what relation they stood to each other in money matters . Before , however , he consulted his ...
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... hope to me ! And thou art the charm that shall nerve my arm With the power of victory . ' With haughty scorn , from the warrior- born , Zelinda looks away ; His love she spurns , for her bosom burns In a hell of jealousy.- Go , haste to ...
... hope to me ! And thou art the charm that shall nerve my arm With the power of victory . ' With haughty scorn , from the warrior- born , Zelinda looks away ; His love she spurns , for her bosom burns In a hell of jealousy.- Go , haste to ...
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... hope , cleared myself of any censure which might be attached to a spirit of inno- vation , I proceed to the more immediate object of this address . It is well known , that the compression of air induces explosion , or undue exten- sion ...
... hope , cleared myself of any censure which might be attached to a spirit of inno- vation , I proceed to the more immediate object of this address . It is well known , that the compression of air induces explosion , or undue exten- sion ...
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... hope , he made for the gate , and succeeded in reaching it before his pursuers came up with him . Hastily rushing into the principal hall of the building , he hardly paused to notice that the occupiers of the castle were Moors , but ...
... hope , he made for the gate , and succeeded in reaching it before his pursuers came up with him . Hastily rushing into the principal hall of the building , he hardly paused to notice that the occupiers of the castle were Moors , but ...
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... hope of avoiding her , he quitted the country , and passed over into England , where he soon after died . The enraged Benshee , whose kind offices were so badly requited , was never heard to lament the approach- ing death of a ...
... hope of avoiding her , he quitted the country , and passed over into England , where he soon after died . The enraged Benshee , whose kind offices were so badly requited , was never heard to lament the approach- ing death of a ...
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الصفحة 163 - ... of the more esteemed class ; and Burns, who delighted in the amusement their discourse afforded, seems to have looked forward with gloomy firmness to the possibility of himself becoming one day or other a member of their itinerant society. In his poetical works, it is alluded to so often, aa perhaps to indicate that he considered the consummation as not utterly impossible.
الصفحة 65 - Then anon the air began to wax clear and the sun to shine fair and bright, the which was right in the Frenchmen's eyes and on the Englishmen's backs. When the Genoese were assembled together and began to approach, they made a great leap and cry to abash the Englishmen, but they stood still and stirred not for all that.
الصفحة 50 - Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine : and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
الصفحة 56 - The little of these vegetables that was used, was formerly imported from Holland and Flanders. Queen Catherine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose.
الصفحة 298 - All perishable ! like the electric fire, But strike the frame, and, as they strike, expire ; Incense too pure a bodied flame to bear, Its fragrance charms the sense, and blends with air.
الصفحة 213 - I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touchhole, and making a constant fire under it ; within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great crack...
الصفحة 158 - Passaic meanders through margins of green, So transparent its waters, its surface serene. He rived the green hills, the wild woods he laid low ; He taught the pure stream in rough channels to flow ; He rent the rude rock, the steep precipice gave, And hurled down the chasm the thundering wave.
الصفحة 297 - Th' expressive glance — whose subtle comment draws Entranced attention, and a mute applause ; Gesture that marks, with force and feeling fraught, A sense in silence, and a will in thought; Harmonious speech, whose pure and liquid tone Gives verse a music, scarce confess'd its own ; As light from...
الصفحة 213 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarified by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively; the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
الصفحة 258 - I am to have my utmost wishes, command that, for the future, the Company of Cobblers shall take place of the Company of Shoemakers.