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... present the ready picture of youth and of closing life . The withering of flowers images to us the languor of beauty , or the sickness of childhood , " & c . We regret that our limited space forbids us , for the present , to pursue the ...
... present the ready picture of youth and of closing life . The withering of flowers images to us the languor of beauty , or the sickness of childhood , " & c . We regret that our limited space forbids us , for the present , to pursue the ...
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... present , and that of M. Dela- porte , of the Société Géographique . The Japan Expedition . - Japan and around the world , an account of three visits to the Japanese Empire , with sketches of Madeira , St. Helena , Cape of Good Hope ...
... present , and that of M. Dela- porte , of the Société Géographique . The Japan Expedition . - Japan and around the world , an account of three visits to the Japanese Empire , with sketches of Madeira , St. Helena , Cape of Good Hope ...
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... present , from pass- ing any opinion on its merits , even if there should be any necessity for our doing so , when we have stated that it is the Prize Essay which won the $ 9,000 premium left by Mr. Burnett , of Aberdeen , Scotland , in ...
... present , from pass- ing any opinion on its merits , even if there should be any necessity for our doing so , when we have stated that it is the Prize Essay which won the $ 9,000 premium left by Mr. Burnett , of Aberdeen , Scotland , in ...
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... Present , " will cause these productions to be eagerly sought for . Gould & Lincoln have several other highly interesting works in press . WHITTEMORE , NILES & HALL are to publish De Quin- cey's Klosterheim , which , it appears , the ...
... Present , " will cause these productions to be eagerly sought for . Gould & Lincoln have several other highly interesting works in press . WHITTEMORE , NILES & HALL are to publish De Quin- cey's Klosterheim , which , it appears , the ...
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... present resolutions . 1ly . Wee intend , by God's grace , as soon as we can , with all convenient speede , to procure some godly and faithful minister , with whome we propose to joyne in church covenant , to walk in all the ways of ...
... present resolutions . 1ly . Wee intend , by God's grace , as soon as we can , with all convenient speede , to procure some godly and faithful minister , with whome we propose to joyne in church covenant , to walk in all the ways of ...
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Page 78 - I thought that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time...
Page 102 - Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue.
Page 77 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
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Page 35 - O ! let no native Londoner imagine that health, and rest, and innocent occupation, interchange of converse sweet, and recreative study, can make the country anything better than altogether odious and detestable. A garden was the primitive prison, till man, with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. Thence followed Babylon, Nineveh, Venice, London, haberdashers, goldsmiths, taverns, playhouses, satires, epigrams, puns, — these all came in on the town part, and the thither...
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Page 67 - A moment after, and hands unseen Were hanging the night around us fast; But we knew that a bar was broken between Life and life: we were mixed at last In spite of the mortal screen.
Page 4 - But now shine on, and what care I, Who in this stormy gulf have found a pearl The countercharm of space and hollow sky, And do accept my madness, and would die To save from some slight shame one simple girl.
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