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... never saw any one enter or leave it , yet at odd times during the day gray smoke would blow fiercely up at us from the black chimney . The fear inspired by this display was , as a rule , an effectual aid to our parents in keeping us ...
... never saw any one enter or leave it , yet at odd times during the day gray smoke would blow fiercely up at us from the black chimney . The fear inspired by this display was , as a rule , an effectual aid to our parents in keeping us ...
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... never since experienced , and throwing my arms about his neck , I shrieked , " Oh , please , Mr. Nigger , don't eat me . " When I next recovered consciousness , I found myself well bandaged and tucked safely in my own bed . The evil ...
... never since experienced , and throwing my arms about his neck , I shrieked , " Oh , please , Mr. Nigger , don't eat me . " When I next recovered consciousness , I found myself well bandaged and tucked safely in my own bed . The evil ...
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... never have luck in berrying , for something always happens . This was my first time , too , and I think that didn't give me any encouragement . EXERCISE VI A. Write a composition about one of the following subjects : 1. How I Won my ...
... never have luck in berrying , for something always happens . This was my first time , too , and I think that didn't give me any encouragement . EXERCISE VI A. Write a composition about one of the following subjects : 1. How I Won my ...
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... never forget what they did here . It is for us , the living , rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced . It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task ...
... never forget what they did here . It is for us , the living , rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced . It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task ...
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... never used any pronouns ) ; but his in- tonations were so touching , and his grotesque yellow face assumed at times such a frankly sorrowful expression , that , in listening to him , it was impos- sible to refrain from a feeling of ...
... never used any pronouns ) ; but his in- tonations were so touching , and his grotesque yellow face assumed at times such a frankly sorrowful expression , that , in listening to him , it was impos- sible to refrain from a feeling of ...
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Page 369 - BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace ; From my heart I give thee joy, — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art, — the grown-up man Only is republican.
Page 79 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair: But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 278 - Charity suffereth long, and is kind ; charity envieth not ; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil ; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth ; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth : but whether there be prophecies they shall fail ; whether there be tongues, they shall cease ; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish...
Page 371 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 127 - But his sagacious eye an inmate owns: By one, and one, the bolts full easy slide: — The chains lie silent on the footworn stones; The key turns, and the door upon its hinges groans. XLII And they are gone: ay, ages long ago 370 These lovers fled away into the storm.
Page 373 - I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers. I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallows; I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses; I linger by my shingly bars; I loiter round my cresses; And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river: For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 326 - I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion.
Page 371 - 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 278 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge ; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity...
Page 22 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...