The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volumen4Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... Theresa , thus began his history : " It is a long time ago , my children , since I was eighteen years of age , and Theresa sixteen . She was the only daughter of Aimar , the rich- est farmer in the country . I was the poorest cot- tager ...
... Theresa , thus began his history : " It is a long time ago , my children , since I was eighteen years of age , and Theresa sixteen . She was the only daughter of Aimar , the rich- est farmer in the country . I was the poorest cot- tager ...
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... Theresa to understand that her grief was highly dis- pleasing to him ; so that restraint added to our mutual wretchedness . " The terrible day was near . We were with- out one glimmering of hope . Theresa was about to become the wife of ...
... Theresa to understand that her grief was highly dis- pleasing to him ; so that restraint added to our mutual wretchedness . " The terrible day was near . We were with- out one glimmering of hope . Theresa was about to become the wife of ...
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... Theresa had saved . For my part , I would take nothing with me ; so true it is , that many of the virtues of youth are the offspring of fancy ; I was robbing a fa- ther of his daughter , and I scrupled , at the same time , to carry off ...
... Theresa had saved . For my part , I would take nothing with me ; so true it is , that many of the virtues of youth are the offspring of fancy ; I was robbing a fa- ther of his daughter , and I scrupled , at the same time , to carry off ...
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... Theresa was as un- able as myself to follow any other business . She was miserable ; she trembled to look for- ward ... Theresa , who received it with a flood of tears . " My pay kept us from starving ; and the little works of Theresa ...
... Theresa was as un- able as myself to follow any other business . She was miserable ; she trembled to look for- ward ... Theresa , who received it with a flood of tears . " My pay kept us from starving ; and the little works of Theresa ...
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... Theresa and myself looked upon you as the pledge of our constant love , and the hope of our old age . Every child that heaven has given us , we have said the same thing , and we have never been mistaken . You were sent to nurse , for my ...
... Theresa and myself looked upon you as the pledge of our constant love , and the hope of our old age . Every child that heaven has given us , we have said the same thing , and we have never been mistaken . You were sent to nurse , for my ...
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Página 245 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Página 417 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Página 259 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Página 351 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Página 432 - He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium.
Página 259 - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embow-ed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Página 247 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Página 245 - Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears Were like a better way: those happy smilets That play'd on her ripe lip seem'd not to know What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.
Página 228 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
Página 418 - Give me another horse! bind up my wounds! Have mercy, Jesu! Soft! I did but dream. O! coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me. The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.