Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 10J. M Lewer, 1842 |
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... entered the railroad cars to pursue our road . It is now only five years since I undertook this same journey from Baltimore to Philadelphia , at the same inclement season of the year . We travelled over a dreary and horrible coach ...
... entered the railroad cars to pursue our road . It is now only five years since I undertook this same journey from Baltimore to Philadelphia , at the same inclement season of the year . We travelled over a dreary and horrible coach ...
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... entered my imagi nation to conceive . Dismal by nature , indeed , as well as by name , is that vast swamp , of which we now skirted the northern edge , look- ing into its endless pools of black water , where the melancholy cypress and ...
... entered my imagi nation to conceive . Dismal by nature , indeed , as well as by name , is that vast swamp , of which we now skirted the northern edge , look- ing into its endless pools of black water , where the melancholy cypress and ...
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... entered into conversation with my husband ; and my veneration waxed deep , when the old man , unfolding his history , proclaimed himself one of the heroes of the revolution , -a fellow - fighter with Washington . I , who , comforted to ...
... entered into conversation with my husband ; and my veneration waxed deep , when the old man , unfolding his history , proclaimed himself one of the heroes of the revolution , -a fellow - fighter with Washington . I , who , comforted to ...
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... entered upon a detailed account of her voyage from London to Margate . Nothing could be more à propos than this opportunity of relating the account , as it at once amused the gentleman , informed her husband of that which up to that ...
... entered upon a detailed account of her voyage from London to Margate . Nothing could be more à propos than this opportunity of relating the account , as it at once amused the gentleman , informed her husband of that which up to that ...
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... entered London . If any castle stood there , it is not unlikely to have been placed on an elephant's back ; and if this notion be correct , the elephant and the castle are at once accounted for . We now passed onwards at a good pace ...
... entered London . If any castle stood there , it is not unlikely to have been placed on an elephant's back ; and if this notion be correct , the elephant and the castle are at once accounted for . We now passed onwards at a good pace ...
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Page 89 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Page 36 - Excelsior! ,O stay,' the maiden said, ,and rest Thy weary head upon this breast!' A tear stood in his bright blue eye, But still he answered with a sigh, Excelsior! ,Beware the pine-tree's withered branch! Beware the awful avalanche!
Page 269 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 193 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Page 36 - The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Page 183 - God with all my Heart, with all my Soul, and with all my Strength; and honour the King, and all good Men in Authority under him.
Page 36 - A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device Excelsior ! There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! POEMS ON SLAVERY.
Page 36 - Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide!' And loud that clarion voice replied. Excelsior! 'O stay,' the maiden said, 'and rest Thy weary head upon this breast!
Page 197 - I SAW thee, Netley, as the sun Across the western wave Was sinking slow, And a golden glow To thy roofless towers he gave ; And the ivy sheen, With its mantle of green, That wrapt thy walls around, Shone lovelily bright, In that glorious light, And I felt 'twas holy ground. Then...
Page 78 - ... I, gentlemen of the jury ; that he wears very fine clothes, much finer clothes than you or I, gentlemen of the jury ; that he has abundance of money in his pocket, much more money than you or I, gentlemen of the jury ; but, gentlemen of the jury, is it not a very hard case.