The Evergreen, Volume 1J. Winchester, 1840 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... better die ! " " Better live , Max ! " returned his sister , smiling . “ I know what I'm about , and the truth shall out , the truth , and the whole truth , Max ! Read , Major Kleinwitz . No , not that non- sense at the beginning ...
... better die ! " " Better live , Max ! " returned his sister , smiling . “ I know what I'm about , and the truth shall out , the truth , and the whole truth , Max ! Read , Major Kleinwitz . No , not that non- sense at the beginning ...
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... better , much , " replied Kesiah , answering the look rather than the word ; " greatly better in health , and prepared to see you . " The sisters sought his room in silence ; and Mabel fell weep- ing at his feet , and laid her head upon ...
... better , much , " replied Kesiah , answering the look rather than the word ; " greatly better in health , and prepared to see you . " The sisters sought his room in silence ; and Mabel fell weep- ing at his feet , and laid her head upon ...
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... better stop . " " Count ! " gasped the poor widow . " Count be hanged , " said he , " my name is CARTOUCHE ! " THE HUDSON FOR EVER ! They may sing of the Rhone and the Rhine , With their palaces , castles and towers , Of their banks ...
... better stop . " " Count ! " gasped the poor widow . " Count be hanged , " said he , " my name is CARTOUCHE ! " THE HUDSON FOR EVER ! They may sing of the Rhone and the Rhine , With their palaces , castles and towers , Of their banks ...
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... better . In fact , there was a gloom hanging over them - a sort of mistrustful- ness . One thing alone was certain : neither the cause of Al- fred Sherwood's absence from the ball , nor even his ' once fa- miliar name ' was mentioned ...
... better . In fact , there was a gloom hanging over them - a sort of mistrustful- ness . One thing alone was certain : neither the cause of Al- fred Sherwood's absence from the ball , nor even his ' once fa- miliar name ' was mentioned ...
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... better in health , had quitted Liverpool in the hopes of anticipating their departure from Beaulieu . By some unaccountable cir- cumstance , connected with the switches , or the rails , or the sleepers , or something else , the up train ...
... better in health , had quitted Liverpool in the hopes of anticipating their departure from Beaulieu . By some unaccountable cir- cumstance , connected with the switches , or the rails , or the sleepers , or something else , the up train ...
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Page 40 - Now let there be the merry sound of music and of dance, Through thy corn-fields green, and sunny vines, oh pleasant land of France! And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Page 2 - I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill, I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still. There was no burr of grasshopper, No chirp of any bird—- But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.
Page 76 - And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him : and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand ; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Page 191 - ... naked, from ceiled roofs to arched coffins, from living like gods to die like men. There is enough to cool the flames of lust, to abate the heights of pride, to appease the itch of covetous desires, to sully and dash out the dissembling colours of a lustful, artificial, and imaginary beauty. There the warlike and the peaceful, the fortunate and the miserable, the beloved and the despised princes mingle their dust, and pay down their symbol of mortality, and tell all the world, that when we die...
Page 99 - And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand.
Page 40 - The king is come to marshal us, in all his armor drest, And he has bound a snow-white plume upon his gallant crest. He looked upon his people, and a tear was in his eye ; He looked upon the traitors, and his glance was stern and high. Right graciously he smiled on us, as rolled from wing to wing, Down all our line, in deafening shout,
Page 212 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread, She whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
Page 44 - THE BELEAGUERED CITY. I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead.
Page 99 - IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. , Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds That ope in the month of May.
Page 40 - Bartholomew," was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe : Down, down, with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.