The English Annual, for ..., Volume 4E. Churton, 1837 - Gift books Contents of issues for 1836-38 are reprinted from a popular periodical. |
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... fear , but awe and admiration , that held the Egyptian silent , as he gazed upon this interesting sight ; and so long did he stand looking upon the aged man in silence , that at length when he would have spoken he felt a kind of charm ...
... fear , but awe and admiration , that held the Egyptian silent , as he gazed upon this interesting sight ; and so long did he stand looking upon the aged man in silence , that at length when he would have spoken he felt a kind of charm ...
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... fear that this trouble of darkness and bewilderment must endure so long as he kept possession of the book , and more than once he thought to cast it away from him as a gift more for evil than for good ; but there was a charm which ...
... fear that this trouble of darkness and bewilderment must endure so long as he kept possession of the book , and more than once he thought to cast it away from him as a gift more for evil than for good ; but there was a charm which ...
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... fear his wife might come into the apartment , and catch him at it . His hand trembled like an aspen leaf , and he wrote it so badly that he was afraid the spirit which watched over the book might not be able to read it . But he ...
... fear his wife might come into the apartment , and catch him at it . His hand trembled like an aspen leaf , and he wrote it so badly that he was afraid the spirit which watched over the book might not be able to read it . But he ...
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... fear more strong , Swift wings to light feet lending , She cleared the daisy without touch , Nor bruised the cowslip bending ; What speed too great , what zeal too much , For such a prize contending ? She gained the fairy - ring , and ...
... fear more strong , Swift wings to light feet lending , She cleared the daisy without touch , Nor bruised the cowslip bending ; What speed too great , what zeal too much , For such a prize contending ? She gained the fairy - ring , and ...
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... fear I never shall be . " " You have been ? " inquired the physician . " I have had some fancies , perhaps too many , " an- swered the patient ; " but youth deludes itself . My idea of a heroine has never been realised , and , in all ...
... fear I never shall be . " " You have been ? " inquired the physician . " I have had some fancies , perhaps too many , " an- swered the patient ; " but youth deludes itself . My idea of a heroine has never been realised , and , in all ...
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Page 84 - Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around ; When even the deep blue heavens look glad, And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground ? There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren, And the gossip of swallows through all the sky ; The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.
Page 82 - All that of good and fair Has gone into thy womb from earliest time, Shall then come forth, to wear The glory and the beauty of its prime.
Page 82 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly seen against the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 81 - Thou hast my better years ; Thou hast my earlier friends, the good, the kind, Yielded to thee with tears — The venerable form, the exalted mind. My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back — yearns with desire intense, And struggles hard to wring Thy bolts apart, and pluck thy captives thence.
Page 83 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast— The desert and illimitable air— Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 84 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.
Page 83 - And soon that toil shall end; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, 30 In the long way that I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright.
Page 80 - Old empires sit in sulleuness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.
Page 314 - With eyes cast up unto the maiden's tower, And easy sighs, such as folk draw in love; The stately seats, the ladies bright of hue, The dances short, long tales of great delight, With words and looks that tigers could but rue, Where each of us did plead the other's right...