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... heard it , and by degrees became quite sprightly ; mothers danced their babies to its ringing ; still the same magical tink , tink , tink , came gaily from the workshop of the Golden Key . Who but the locksmith could have made such ...
... heard it , and by degrees became quite sprightly ; mothers danced their babies to its ringing ; still the same magical tink , tink , tink , came gaily from the workshop of the Golden Key . Who but the locksmith could have made such ...
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... heard to the remotest benches ; and when he strained it to its full extent , the sound rose like the swell of the organ of a great cathedral , shook the house with its peal , and was heard through lobbies and down staircases , to the ...
... heard to the remotest benches ; and when he strained it to its full extent , the sound rose like the swell of the organ of a great cathedral , shook the house with its peal , and was heard through lobbies and down staircases , to the ...
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... heard him , ever knew so little of what he was going to say . " Indeed his facility amounted to a vice . He was not the master , but the slave , of his own speech . So little self - command had he when once he felt the impulse , that he ...
... heard him , ever knew so little of what he was going to say . " Indeed his facility amounted to a vice . He was not the master , but the slave , of his own speech . So little self - command had he when once he felt the impulse , that he ...
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... heard him ; his ardor and his noble bearing put fire into the most frigid conceit , and gave dignity to the most puerile allusion . T. B. MACAULAY . THE RHODORA * In May , when sea - winds pierced our solitudes , I found the fresh ...
... heard him ; his ardor and his noble bearing put fire into the most frigid conceit , and gave dignity to the most puerile allusion . T. B. MACAULAY . THE RHODORA * In May , when sea - winds pierced our solitudes , I found the fresh ...
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... heard others praise , and that highly , not to speak it profanely , that neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian , pagan , nor man , have so strutted and bellowed , that I have thought some of nature's ...
... heard others praise , and that highly , not to speak it profanely , that neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian , pagan , nor man , have so strutted and bellowed , that I have thought some of nature's ...
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Page 100 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear ; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, " She is near, she is near; And the white rose weeps, " She is late ; " The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers,
Page 127 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness? think of it; The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain That looks so many fathoms to the sea And hears it roar beneath.
Page 126 - Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable* shape, That I will speak to thee ; I'll call thee, Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane : O, answer me : Let me not burst in ignorance...
Page 164 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Page 60 - Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. And some in dreams assured were, Of the Spirit that plagued us so; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah! well a-day!...
Page 106 - 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. "And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell; Such thoughts to Lucy I will give While she and I together live Here in this happy dell.
Page 136 - The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 68 - Who sank thy sunless pillars deep in Earth ? Who filled thy countenance with rosy light ? Who made thee parent of perpetual streams...
Page 105 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said : " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
Page 72 - The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.