American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 12Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1838 - American periodicals |
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... scene , crumbles to dust in the grasp . I recollect my first case ; events , coincidences connected with it cannot be forgotten . ' My mother , who was a widow , wished me to prepare for the church . I suppose that wish was deeper in ...
... scene , crumbles to dust in the grasp . I recollect my first case ; events , coincidences connected with it cannot be forgotten . ' My mother , who was a widow , wished me to prepare for the church . I suppose that wish was deeper in ...
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... scene which she adorned . I was to have written to the widow that evening , but the words came slowly , and I found the ink dry in my pen , and myself contrasting the fasci- nating girl by whose side I had so pleasantly galloped through ...
... scene which she adorned . I was to have written to the widow that evening , but the words came slowly , and I found the ink dry in my pen , and myself contrasting the fasci- nating girl by whose side I had so pleasantly galloped through ...
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... scene of lifesome gayety , but only of deep thought , and complicated pro- jects of ambition . Lynde , holding a letter which had lately been received , sat half - buried in a large arm - chair , and on my entrance , greeted me with ...
... scene of lifesome gayety , but only of deep thought , and complicated pro- jects of ambition . Lynde , holding a letter which had lately been received , sat half - buried in a large arm - chair , and on my entrance , greeted me with ...
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... scene like a queen receiving her dues ; her personal beauty and graceful wit had given her a kind of conventional ascendancy ; she conversed with all , but , as it were , descended to converse with them . Her father would , time and ...
... scene like a queen receiving her dues ; her personal beauty and graceful wit had given her a kind of conventional ascendancy ; she conversed with all , but , as it were , descended to converse with them . Her father would , time and ...
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... scene ! The wave is blue , the turf is green ; But where are now the wood and wild The pilgrim and the forest child ? The wood and wild have pass'd away ; Pilgrim and forest child are clay ; And here , upon their graves , we stand , The ...
... scene ! The wave is blue , the turf is green ; But where are now the wood and wild The pilgrim and the forest child ? The wood and wild have pass'd away ; Pilgrim and forest child are clay ; And here , upon their graves , we stand , The ...
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