American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 51Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1858 - American periodicals |
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... watched thine half - closed eyes , And heard thy manly voice , so sweet , Speaking to me in sighs : And fainting with excess of bliss , Have laid my burning breast on thine ! Only to feel more bitterly That then thou wert not mine ...
... watched thine half - closed eyes , And heard thy manly voice , so sweet , Speaking to me in sighs : And fainting with excess of bliss , Have laid my burning breast on thine ! Only to feel more bitterly That then thou wert not mine ...
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... watched him closely , wondering much what might be the dream of that century - old man whom the world called ' savage . ' Slowly sank the sun ; and as one half the circle of its rays disap- peared beyond the boundary - line of vision ...
... watched him closely , wondering much what might be the dream of that century - old man whom the world called ' savage . ' Slowly sank the sun ; and as one half the circle of its rays disap- peared beyond the boundary - line of vision ...
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... watched his figure re- ceding in the dim star - light , and among the deep shades , until it be- came , at no great distance , a shapeless spectre . In this condition it seemed to remain , and at length became more distinct . The ...
... watched his figure re- ceding in the dim star - light , and among the deep shades , until it be- came , at no great distance , a shapeless spectre . In this condition it seemed to remain , and at length became more distinct . The ...
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... watched your gigantic career , whether in shedding your life - blood in your country's cause , upon the fervid plains of Mexico , or in boldly guiding the helm of the Ship of State , amid tempests that threatened mo- mentarily to wreck ...
... watched your gigantic career , whether in shedding your life - blood in your country's cause , upon the fervid plains of Mexico , or in boldly guiding the helm of the Ship of State , amid tempests that threatened mo- mentarily to wreck ...
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... watched the effect it produced upon the passers - by . Few stopped to look at it , and those who did , almost invariably , with some contemptuous expression , founded on what appeared to them the ab- surdity of representing the SAVIOUR ...
... watched the effect it produced upon the passers - by . Few stopped to look at it , and those who did , almost invariably , with some contemptuous expression , founded on what appeared to them the ab- surdity of representing the SAVIOUR ...
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