Harrison's monthly collection [Formerly The monthly collection of tales. Ed. by Felix Odd-vein]. |
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... believe , " said Lady Mary Cleveland , " you have all learnt some fine rhetorical flourishes from the amiable orators of the day , or you would avoid a theme as disgusting as it is disgraceful . " " This I did not expect from you , my ...
... believe , " said Lady Mary Cleveland , " you have all learnt some fine rhetorical flourishes from the amiable orators of the day , or you would avoid a theme as disgusting as it is disgraceful . " " This I did not expect from you , my ...
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... believe that favourite of mankind , that fascinating Dela- ware , who is a second Sir Charles Grandison , has ensnared him for ever . " " But do you think there can be any truth in Sir George Burrell's report that Delaware is about to ...
... believe that favourite of mankind , that fascinating Dela- ware , who is a second Sir Charles Grandison , has ensnared him for ever . " " But do you think there can be any truth in Sir George Burrell's report that Delaware is about to ...
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... believe the sounds might be followed by the presence of the individual I now so earnestly wished to behold . In a moment , however , all was again silent . I heard nothing- saw nothing . The dark pines , through whose branches the moon ...
... believe the sounds might be followed by the presence of the individual I now so earnestly wished to behold . In a moment , however , all was again silent . I heard nothing- saw nothing . The dark pines , through whose branches the moon ...
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... believe the gentle Lilla , yet would I rather my exist- ance were forfeited , than forego the pleasure of finding thee , mortal . " I scarcely had ejaculated these words , ere a whoop and hallow , were succeeded by the appearance of a ...
... believe the gentle Lilla , yet would I rather my exist- ance were forfeited , than forego the pleasure of finding thee , mortal . " I scarcely had ejaculated these words , ere a whoop and hallow , were succeeded by the appearance of a ...
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... believe . His father was an old favourite of ours ; and so constantly were we the witnesses of his beauti ful acting , that we should certainly recognize any direct imitation in the performance of his son . Mr. Charles Kean has since ...
... believe . His father was an old favourite of ours ; and so constantly were we the witnesses of his beauti ful acting , that we should certainly recognize any direct imitation in the performance of his son . Mr. Charles Kean has since ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 268 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...
Página 287 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Página 337 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Página 268 - Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements!
Página 284 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
Página 129 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Página 129 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Página 271 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 267 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...