Harrison's monthly collection [Formerly The monthly collection of tales. Ed. by Felix Odd-vein]. |
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... nature , won upon all . • It was the first time Lady Mary Cleveland had seen the Earl of Delaware . Of his character she was not ignorant ; but the reception she gave him , though polite , was not so cordial as her ardent son expected ...
... nature , won upon all . • It was the first time Lady Mary Cleveland had seen the Earl of Delaware . Of his character she was not ignorant ; but the reception she gave him , though polite , was not so cordial as her ardent son expected ...
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... nature , that a nursing tigress , a hydrophobiacal mastiff , or a hyæna on workhouse allowance , were incarnations of meekness in comparison with the washerwoman in her hours of waked wrath . " The good is oft interred with the bones ...
... nature , that a nursing tigress , a hydrophobiacal mastiff , or a hyæna on workhouse allowance , were incarnations of meekness in comparison with the washerwoman in her hours of waked wrath . " The good is oft interred with the bones ...
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... nature , or else from the influence of the moment - a far stronger motive than many imagine - were giving her credit for bonos mores , to which poor Poll herself in her life - day would never have dreamt of laying claim , even in her ...
... nature , or else from the influence of the moment - a far stronger motive than many imagine - were giving her credit for bonos mores , to which poor Poll herself in her life - day would never have dreamt of laying claim , even in her ...
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... nature , it could be no wonder that a love of romance had been engendered in my dis- position ; and although the scenes and toils of a military life had contributed to dull the enthusiasm of boyhood , there needed but the first fair ...
... nature , it could be no wonder that a love of romance had been engendered in my dis- position ; and although the scenes and toils of a military life had contributed to dull the enthusiasm of boyhood , there needed but the first fair ...
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... natural luxuriance , now floating on the wind , now shading a neck , which might have shamed the purest alabaster ... nature's productions , and believe such love- liness has Lilla of Lauterbrunnen . But she was gone . That mountain ...
... natural luxuriance , now floating on the wind , now shading a neck , which might have shamed the purest alabaster ... nature's productions , and believe such love- liness has Lilla of Lauterbrunnen . But she was gone . That mountain ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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...