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... opened at every turn upon our view . I had never been abroad after the dusk of the long English twilight had deepened into darkness ; after the lamps were lighted in the shops and streets , and Uriel had set his watch of starry ...
... opened at every turn upon our view . I had never been abroad after the dusk of the long English twilight had deepened into darkness ; after the lamps were lighted in the shops and streets , and Uriel had set his watch of starry ...
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... opened before him , carrying a white bundle very tenderly . It was a little girl , per- haps six years old one year younger than I , three years younger than my brother . Our father set her down in the pony chaise , and said— " Take ...
... opened before him , carrying a white bundle very tenderly . It was a little girl , per- haps six years old one year younger than I , three years younger than my brother . Our father set her down in the pony chaise , and said— " Take ...
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... opened her eyes with an effort , and fixed them earnestly again upon the door , through which she expected her father and her mammy would return . Then , wearied out by the day's journey , and the lateness of the night , she sank into ...
... opened her eyes with an effort , and fixed them earnestly again upon the door , through which she expected her father and her mammy would return . Then , wearied out by the day's journey , and the lateness of the night , she sank into ...
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... opened before me in a moment - infinite loneliness . I began to shriek aloud ; to call for " my papa - my own papa , my dear , dear papa . " My cries woke up Veronica , who with responsive lamentation demanded . her lost Mammy . The ...
... opened before me in a moment - infinite loneliness . I began to shriek aloud ; to call for " my papa - my own papa , my dear , dear papa . " My cries woke up Veronica , who with responsive lamentation demanded . her lost Mammy . The ...
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... opened , and a servant of the house came out , with some towels in his hand , and with a pail of water . He looked up in the reveller's face with grave reproof , and something awed both me and Captain Sparks in his hushed manner . But ...
... opened , and a servant of the house came out , with some towels in his hand , and with a pail of water . He looked up in the reveller's face with grave reproof , and something awed both me and Captain Sparks in his hushed manner . But ...
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Page 25 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 272 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 280 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Page 83 - To come and go with tidings from the heart, As it a running messenger had been.
Page 232 - When at a play to laugh, or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason why; Never to hold her tongue a minute, While all she prates has nothing in it ; Whole hours can with a coxcomb sit, And take his nonsense all for wit ; Her learning mounts to read a song, But half the words pronouncing wrong ; • Has every repartee in store She spoke ten thousand times before...
Page 98 - THERE is a change — and I am poor; Your Love hath been, nor long ago, A Fountain at my fond Heart's door, Whose only business was to flow; And flow it did; not taking heed Of its own bounty, or my need.
Page 142 - With clashing wheel, and lifting keel, And smoking torch on high, When winds are loud, and billows reel, She thunders foaming by ; When seas are silent and serene, With even beam she glides, The sunshine glimmering through the green That skirts her gleaming sides.
Page 380 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own...
Page 213 - With thy rude ploughshare, Death, turn up the sod, And spread the furrow for the seed we sow ; This is the field and Acre of our God. This is the place, where human harvests grow ! TO THE RIVER CHARLES.
Page 157 - The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.