The American Whig Review, Volume 14Wiley and Putnam, 1851 - Periodicals |
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... lady , one for you , Master Rembrandt , and one for the children and heirs of your sister Margaret . " " She is dead , " said Rembrandt . " But her children ! " " Her children likewise . " " Their death is not yet legally established ...
... lady , one for you , Master Rembrandt , and one for the children and heirs of your sister Margaret . " " She is dead , " said Rembrandt . " But her children ! " " Her children likewise . " " Their death is not yet legally established ...
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... Lady Chatham's : two drops of fire . " With such an amanu- he certainly knew his Lordship's ; for , seve- ensis as his wife , and perhaps , occasionally , ral years previously , when Garrick was on his sister , the writing , copying ...
... Lady Chatham's : two drops of fire . " With such an amanu- he certainly knew his Lordship's ; for , seve- ensis as his wife , and perhaps , occasionally , ral years previously , when Garrick was on his sister , the writing , copying ...
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... Lady Francis would give any thing to be able to state the fact , yet she cannot say , and she says all she can , that her husband ever confided the secret in any way to her . Mr. Wade's elucidation of Junius is wonderfully unique . With ...
... Lady Francis would give any thing to be able to state the fact , yet she cannot say , and she says all she can , that her husband ever confided the secret in any way to her . Mr. Wade's elucidation of Junius is wonderfully unique . With ...
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... lady , who was born to ride in her coach and six . She was beloved , if the story I have heard is true , by a young gentleman , her equal in birth , though by no means her match in fortune ; but love , they say , is blind , and so she ...
... lady , who was born to ride in her coach and six . She was beloved , if the story I have heard is true , by a young gentleman , her equal in birth , though by no means her match in fortune ; but love , they say , is blind , and so she ...
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... lady's ; she is a sweet angel at all times , but I wish your ladyship had seen how she looked then . She was dressed in . a white muslin night - gown , with striped lilac and white ribands ; her hair was kept in the loose way you used ...
... lady's ; she is a sweet angel at all times , but I wish your ladyship had seen how she looked then . She was dressed in . a white muslin night - gown , with striped lilac and white ribands ; her hair was kept in the loose way you used ...
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Page 69 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
Page 455 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right ; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Page 418 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Page 169 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 281 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 69 - For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 74 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 506 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 31 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Page 218 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.