Vassall Morton: A NovelPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 414 Seiten |
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... looks with as much awe at Harvard College library as I did myself forty - five years ago , when I came down from Steuben to join the freshman class . " " So you came from Steuben ! Did not old John Morton come from the same place ...
... looks with as much awe at Harvard College library as I did myself forty - five years ago , when I came down from Steuben to join the freshman class . " " So you came from Steuben ! Did not old John Morton come from the same place ...
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... look as if you were training to be a hotel porter . " " I am laying in for vacation . " " What sense is there in that ? Let alone your Latin , Greek , and mathematics ; what the deuse is vacation made for ? Take to the woods , as I do ...
... look as if you were training to be a hotel porter . " " I am laying in for vacation . " " What sense is there in that ? Let alone your Latin , Greek , and mathematics ; what the deuse is vacation made for ? Take to the woods , as I do ...
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... look like a collegian . They are generally thin and pale with studying . " " Oftener with laziness and cigar smoke . " " Very likely . You seem too hardy and active for a stu- dent . " Morton's weak point was touched . " I can do well ...
... look like a collegian . They are generally thin and pale with studying . " " Oftener with laziness and cigar smoke . " " Very likely . You seem too hardy and active for a stu- dent . " Morton's weak point was touched . " I can do well ...
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... look at Leslie . Though he admired the daughter , he refrained with difficulty from quiz- zing the father . " You seem to know Vinal very well . ” " Yes , thoroughly ; I have known him from childhood ; he is the son of my wife's sister ...
... look at Leslie . Though he admired the daughter , he refrained with difficulty from quiz- zing the father . " You seem to know Vinal very well . ” " Yes , thoroughly ; I have known him from childhood ; he is the son of my wife's sister ...
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... look of a good - natured game cock . " I shall be sorry to leave this place , " said Morton ; " I like it . I like the elms , and the gravel walks , and the scurvy old brick and mortar buildings . " “ Then I am not of your mind , " said ...
... look of a good - natured game cock . " I shall be sorry to leave this place , " said Morton ; " I like it . I like the elms , and the gravel walks , and the scurvy old brick and mortar buildings . " “ Then I am not of your mind , " said ...
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acquaintance afternoon Ashland asked Austria Baden battle of Wagram began better Boston Buckland CHAPTER Charles Augustus Murray clouds colonel companion Cymbeline death door earnest Edith Leslie escape face fancy Fanny Euston father feeling followed gave grown backward half hand head hear heard heart Henry Speyer hope Horace Vinal horse hour Jacob journey knew lady Lake of Como Le Misanthrope learned leave lips live Matherton mean Meredith mind Miss Euston Miss Leslie morning Morton looked Morton turned mountains nature never night octavo once pace passed person Primrose prison replied rest returned Richards rocks rose Rosny seated seemed seen servant side smile soon speak spirit stood Stubb table d'hôte tell there's thing thought took Vassall Morton walked Wentworth window wish women words young
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Seite 135 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Seite 349 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Seite 317 - We twain have met like ships upon the sea, Who hold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet ; • One little hour ! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.
Seite 367 - Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content : 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
Seite 62 - But when he came, though pale and wan, He looked so great and high, So noble was his manly front, So calm his steadfast eye ; — The rabble rout forbore to shout, And each man held his breath, For well they knew the hero's soul Was face to face with death.
Seite 22 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Seite 60 - I'll never love thee more. Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone, My thoughts shall evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That puts it not unto the touch, To win or lose it all.
Seite 393 - Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now.
Seite 62 - God ! that ghastly gibbet ! how dismal 'tis to see The great, tall, spectral skeleton, the ladder and the tree ! Hark ! hark ! it is the clash of arms, the bells begin to toll — He is coming ! he is coming ! God's mercy on his soul...
Seite 61 - I'll serve thee in such noble ways Was never heard before ; I'll crown and deck thee all with bays, And love thee evermore.