The Speaker's Garland, Volume 2Penn Publishing Company, 1892 |
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... too much good luck for one man lately . The thing can't last ; taint natural that it should , you know . I've watched it . First it rains , then it shines , then it rains again . It rains so hard you NUMBER FIVE . 27.
... too much good luck for one man lately . The thing can't last ; taint natural that it should , you know . I've watched it . First it rains , then it shines , then it rains again . It rains so hard you NUMBER FIVE . 27.
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... thing which makes me think I will get through safe is , because I think I wont . " " Well ! this is curious , " said I. 66 Why , yes ! " he replied . " I am a machinist - made a discovery -- nobody believed in it - spent all my money ...
... thing which makes me think I will get through safe is , because I think I wont . " " Well ! this is curious , " said I. 66 Why , yes ! " he replied . " I am a machinist - made a discovery -- nobody believed in it - spent all my money ...
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... thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it , and take any side you please , as I was just tell- ing you . If there was a horse - race , you'd find him flush or you'd find him busted at the end of it ; if there was a dog ...
... thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it , and take any side you please , as I was just tell- ing you . If there was a horse - race , you'd find him flush or you'd find him busted at the end of it ; if there was a dog ...
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... thing had gone along far enough , and the money was all up , and he come to make a snatch for his pet holt , he saw in a minute how he'd been imposed on , and how the other dog had him in the door , so to speak , and he ' peared ...
... thing had gone along far enough , and the money was all up , and he come to make a snatch for his pet holt , he saw in a minute how he'd been imposed on , and how the other dog had him in the door , so to speak , and he ' peared ...
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... thing , I should judge , he can outjump ary frog in Calaveras county . " The feller took the box again , and took another long , particular look , and give it back to Smiley , and says , very deliberate , " Well , I don't see no p'ints ...
... thing , I should judge , he can outjump ary frog in Calaveras county . " The feller took the box again , and took another long , particular look , and give it back to Smiley , and says , very deliberate , " Well , I don't see no p'ints ...
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Page 122 - But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 70 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 123 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 122 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me ; Yes ! — that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Page 70 - IT was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
Page 105 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 78 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 180 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was famed with more than with one man...