Crayon Sketches, Band 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 |
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... sight it was , on a clear , frosty christmas morning , with the snow crackling beneath your feet , and the sleigh - bells tinkling merrily in your ears , to see some comfortably - clad and comfortable- looking damsel tripping cheerfully ...
... sight it was , on a clear , frosty christmas morning , with the snow crackling beneath your feet , and the sleigh - bells tinkling merrily in your ears , to see some comfortably - clad and comfortable- looking damsel tripping cheerfully ...
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... sight there appeared nothing about him to distinguish him from the ordinary run of mortals . He was , however , a singular individual , and had some strange peculiarities . Melancholy had " marked him for her own ; " - he was evidently ...
... sight there appeared nothing about him to distinguish him from the ordinary run of mortals . He was , however , a singular individual , and had some strange peculiarities . Melancholy had " marked him for her own ; " - he was evidently ...
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... sight , perchance for ever . " My tale draws fast to its tragical conclusion . I went over in the next boat , remained in Brooklyn that night , and returned the following morning . On arriving at the dock , I perceived that many peo ...
... sight , perchance for ever . " My tale draws fast to its tragical conclusion . I went over in the next boat , remained in Brooklyn that night , and returned the following morning . On arriving at the dock , I perceived that many peo ...
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... sight of his agonized brother . What did the Abbe C. do in this case ? With admirable presence of mind he flew to the head of the stairs and bawled to the cook- " do it all in oil - do it all in oil ! " person of Mr. Titus Dodds . He ...
... sight of his agonized brother . What did the Abbe C. do in this case ? With admirable presence of mind he flew to the head of the stairs and bawled to the cook- " do it all in oil - do it all in oil ! " person of Mr. Titus Dodds . He ...
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... sight to see Mr. Titus Dodds , after the honorable fatigues of the day , sit down to what he most worshipped - ducks stuffed or impregnated with onions . To have marked the smile of calm though intense satisfaction which overspread the ...
... sight to see Mr. Titus Dodds , after the honorable fatigues of the day , sit down to what he most worshipped - ducks stuffed or impregnated with onions . To have marked the smile of calm though intense satisfaction which overspread the ...
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Seite 242 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Seite 27 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Seite 190 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Seite 235 - Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Seite 108 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Seite 243 - The mountain shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
Seite 233 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Seite 70 - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
Seite 15 - OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Seite 141 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.