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... never learned to love , Whom gentleness alone can move : And oh ! ' t was in that tender hour , She swayed me with resistless power ; How could she lift , and with a frown As deeply , darkly cast me down ! How like a dog my mistress ...
... never learned to love , Whom gentleness alone can move : And oh ! ' t was in that tender hour , She swayed me with resistless power ; How could she lift , and with a frown As deeply , darkly cast me down ! How like a dog my mistress ...
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... never blest ; White clouds in motion , hills at rest , By passing shadows overrun ! Passaic basking in the sun ; Far city - spires that task the eye , Pricking like needle - points the sky : Beneath our feet our native town , Though ...
... never blest ; White clouds in motion , hills at rest , By passing shadows overrun ! Passaic basking in the sun ; Far city - spires that task the eye , Pricking like needle - points the sky : Beneath our feet our native town , Though ...
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... never trod ; And should he once essay to go , Its cold would freeze the little god . Fool ! fool ! with all my previous pain , To rush into the trap again , But now , farewell to love and thee ! The world has nobler aims for me : Enough ...
... never trod ; And should he once essay to go , Its cold would freeze the little god . Fool ! fool ! with all my previous pain , To rush into the trap again , But now , farewell to love and thee ! The world has nobler aims for me : Enough ...
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... grew upon the hilly fields , and numerous herds of fat and lordly - looking cattle were grazing in the rich meadows by the side VOL . XVI . 3 of the little stream . Jeremiah declared he had never 1840. ] 17 The Haunted Merchant .
... grew upon the hilly fields , and numerous herds of fat and lordly - looking cattle were grazing in the rich meadows by the side VOL . XVI . 3 of the little stream . Jeremiah declared he had never 1840. ] 17 The Haunted Merchant .
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... never seen the inside of a New - England tavern be- fore , he took particular notice of the painted floors , the wooden - bottom chairs , the green paper curtains at the windows ; of an old - fashioned mahogany secretary , with a large ...
... never seen the inside of a New - England tavern be- fore , he took particular notice of the painted floors , the wooden - bottom chairs , the green paper curtains at the windows ; of an old - fashioned mahogany secretary , with a large ...
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