American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 18Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1841 - American periodicals |
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Page 24
... strange - looking withal . The top of the backs of the boots appeared bent over , forward , and downward , so as to form a broad low forehead . Beneath , I was astonished to see two almost imperceptible slits in the leather dilate into ...
... strange - looking withal . The top of the backs of the boots appeared bent over , forward , and downward , so as to form a broad low forehead . Beneath , I was astonished to see two almost imperceptible slits in the leather dilate into ...
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... Strange ! that they should doubt it , while they acknowledge affection and companionship in almost all other existences ; when even the cold and inanimate vegetable , which comes and goes , and can only live in the breath of the summer ...
... Strange ! that they should doubt it , while they acknowledge affection and companionship in almost all other existences ; when even the cold and inanimate vegetable , which comes and goes , and can only live in the breath of the summer ...
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... strange Unnatural waves , while hideous underneath Yawn greedier caves than deepest ocean hides , Glutted with fragments of the shipwrecked earth , Clashing and plunging down ! O ! let us kneel And offer up the incense of our thanks To ...
... strange Unnatural waves , while hideous underneath Yawn greedier caves than deepest ocean hides , Glutted with fragments of the shipwrecked earth , Clashing and plunging down ! O ! let us kneel And offer up the incense of our thanks To ...
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... strange zest for the fantastic , which seems to have clung to me from my birth , this very circum- stance which prejudiced others against it , gave it favor in my eyes . The spectral and solitary chambers , the long and gloomy passages ...
... strange zest for the fantastic , which seems to have clung to me from my birth , this very circum- stance which prejudiced others against it , gave it favor in my eyes . The spectral and solitary chambers , the long and gloomy passages ...
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... strange fits of weakness too . I'll tell what I did the other night . I had thought and thought on you this one subject ; and it would keep running into my head , that if she were out of the way , how well I could 42 [ July , The Quod ...
... strange fits of weakness too . I'll tell what I did the other night . I had thought and thought on you this one subject ; and it would keep running into my head , that if she were out of the way , how well I could 42 [ July , The Quod ...
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