American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 18Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1841 - American periodicals |
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... dark hair and eyes , but an aquiline nose almost too salient for beauty . They were both en cheveux , and wore simple white dresses of gauze over silk , gathered with a rose at the knee . After a set or two had been danced , an onset of ...
... dark hair and eyes , but an aquiline nose almost too salient for beauty . They were both en cheveux , and wore simple white dresses of gauze over silk , gathered with a rose at the knee . After a set or two had been danced , an onset of ...
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... dark dream , And in the vale thy hand is spread , O'er rock , and tree , and stream ; And solemn sounds thou utterest , For a mystic voice is thine , And the mournful words thou mutterest , Loud swell , or soft decline . How beautiful ...
... dark dream , And in the vale thy hand is spread , O'er rock , and tree , and stream ; And solemn sounds thou utterest , For a mystic voice is thine , And the mournful words thou mutterest , Loud swell , or soft decline . How beautiful ...
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... dark and unimagined horrors Leave us to sink : what double terror then When sober Earth mimics the reeling sea ! And plains , upheaving into billows , yield Unsolid to the foot of man and beast ; When our sure dwelling , like a ...
... dark and unimagined horrors Leave us to sink : what double terror then When sober Earth mimics the reeling sea ! And plains , upheaving into billows , yield Unsolid to the foot of man and beast ; When our sure dwelling , like a ...
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... dark and sepulchral basements , all gave it an air of wild , yet to me fascinating mystery ; and I have sat by the hour and listened to the wind as it wailed through the dark entries of the building , which seemed itself to moan like ...
... dark and sepulchral basements , all gave it an air of wild , yet to me fascinating mystery ; and I have sat by the hour and listened to the wind as it wailed through the dark entries of the building , which seemed itself to moan like ...
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... dark and discolored , and hung with cobwebs . Occupants it once had ; and the time had been when this old house had held up its head and lorded it over its more humble neighbors ; but that time had gone by ; and now it was the home only ...
... dark and discolored , and hung with cobwebs . Occupants it once had ; and the time had been when this old house had held up its head and lorded it over its more humble neighbors ; but that time had gone by ; and now it was the home only ...
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