The Heathcotes; or, The wept of Wish-Ton-WishRoutledge, 1855 - 273 Seiten |
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... But when the sun , usually at that season in the climate of Con- necticut , a bright unshrouded orb , fell towards the tree - tops which bounded the western horizon , the old man began to THE HEATHCOTES ; OR , CHAPTER II. ...
... But when the sun , usually at that season in the climate of Con- necticut , a bright unshrouded orb , fell towards the tree - tops which bounded the western horizon , the old man began to THE HEATHCOTES ; OR , CHAPTER II. ...
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... trees ; but caprice or convenience had induced an abandonment of the clearing , after it had ill - requited the toil of felling the timber by a single crop . In this spot , straggling , girdled , and consequently dead trees , piles of ...
... trees ; but caprice or convenience had induced an abandonment of the clearing , after it had ill - requited the toil of felling the timber by a single crop . In this spot , straggling , girdled , and consequently dead trees , piles of ...
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... trees , firmly knit together by braces and horizontal pieces of timber , and evidently kept in a state of jealous ... trees had been uprooted by the furious blasts that sometimes sweep off acres of our trees in a minute , the eye could ...
... trees , firmly knit together by braces and horizontal pieces of timber , and evidently kept in a state of jealous ... trees had been uprooted by the furious blasts that sometimes sweep off acres of our trees in a minute , the eye could ...
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... trees that lay along its route , than by any marks on the earth itself , issued into the cleared land . The pro- gress of the stranger had , at first , been so wary and slow , as to bear the manner of exceeding and mysterious caution ...
... trees that lay along its route , than by any marks on the earth itself , issued into the cleared land . The pro- gress of the stranger had , at first , been so wary and slow , as to bear the manner of exceeding and mysterious caution ...
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... trees . The time was to her impatience longer than usual , and under the excitement of a feverish inquietude , that had no definite object , she removed the single bolt that held the postern closed , and passed entirely without the ...
... trees . The time was to her impatience longer than usual , and under the excitement of a feverish inquietude , that had no definite object , she removed the single bolt that held the postern closed , and passed entirely without the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 123 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o
Seite 216 - The Lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing...
Seite 70 - Flashy people may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people in a country, where they have as much mother- wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism can question them.
Seite 181 - AND the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord : and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Seite 185 - In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house : when I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Seite 155 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Seite 206 - No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew : The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew.
Seite 185 - Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Seite 185 - But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the LORD : in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Seite 185 - ... the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.