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... nature can impart , ' The point essential in the tenant's lease , The well - known signal in the time of peace , The farmer's comfort when he drives his plough , The soldier's duty and the lover's vow ; The planet seen ' twixt earth and ...
... nature can impart , ' The point essential in the tenant's lease , The well - known signal in the time of peace , The farmer's comfort when he drives his plough , The soldier's duty and the lover's vow ; The planet seen ' twixt earth and ...
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... natural inclination to the art of engraving , or that if he began with an inclination practice did not increase it , for he never took up the art again , having once fairly dropped it . Mr. S. P. Avery of this city has a copy of a ...
... natural inclination to the art of engraving , or that if he began with an inclination practice did not increase it , for he never took up the art again , having once fairly dropped it . Mr. S. P. Avery of this city has a copy of a ...
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... nature of the book almost all the lead- ing reviews built articles upon it , extracting its good things with lavish indulgence . Dr. Ramsay , who held English orders , and for seven years served a curacy in Somersetshire , was for some ...
... nature of the book almost all the lead- ing reviews built articles upon it , extracting its good things with lavish indulgence . Dr. Ramsay , who held English orders , and for seven years served a curacy in Somersetshire , was for some ...
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... nature , or only rendered exceptional by our mistaken views respecting the characteristics of the mind of woman . W. Fisk . The death is announced of this Eng- lish Artist , who painted several pictures which were engraved , and gained ...
... nature , or only rendered exceptional by our mistaken views respecting the characteristics of the mind of woman . W. Fisk . The death is announced of this Eng- lish Artist , who painted several pictures which were engraved , and gained ...
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... Nature , " according to the grotesque dictum of Dog- berry . Most assuredly , in the instance of this extraordinarily gifted draughtsman , we may assert that his mastery of perspective , of proportion , of all the more delicate and ...
... Nature , " according to the grotesque dictum of Dog- berry . Most assuredly , in the instance of this extraordinarily gifted draughtsman , we may assert that his mastery of perspective , of proportion , of all the more delicate and ...
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Page 129 - She, of whose soul, if we may say, 'twas gold, Her body was the electrum, and did hold Many degrees of that ; we understood Her by her sight ; her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought...
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Page 8 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
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