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... talk such nonsense , " said Nurse , when , after paying no attention to our discourse for some time , she began to perceive what we were talking of . " Don't talk of flirts , or anything of that kind . That is not proper talk for young ...
... talk such nonsense , " said Nurse , when , after paying no attention to our discourse for some time , she began to perceive what we were talking of . " Don't talk of flirts , or anything of that kind . That is not proper talk for young ...
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... talk to her of " ole Virginny , " and tell her that some day she would go back to it , she had grown accustomed to say , " No , indeed , honey , Mammy's gwine furder . " This did not make us unhappy , because Mammy had cried " Wolf " so ...
... talk to her of " ole Virginny , " and tell her that some day she would go back to it , she had grown accustomed to say , " No , indeed , honey , Mammy's gwine furder . " This did not make us unhappy , because Mammy had cried " Wolf " so ...
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... talking to her . Adam and Eve , when they talked love , must have done it in a whisper . And , being loved had a charming influence upon Veronica . She was more winning than ever to her uncle ; 72 VERONICA . OUR COUSIN.
... talking to her . Adam and Eve , when they talked love , must have done it in a whisper . And , being loved had a charming influence upon Veronica . She was more winning than ever to her uncle ; 72 VERONICA . OUR COUSIN.
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... Talk of voyages of discovery ! you and I know as much of public opinion in Timbuctoo as we know of the feelings agitating the classes of society below us or above us . We conjecture more truly about the frozen regions than we do about ...
... Talk of voyages of discovery ! you and I know as much of public opinion in Timbuctoo as we know of the feelings agitating the classes of society below us or above us . We conjecture more truly about the frozen regions than we do about ...
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... talk to me of Max . That the childish attachment formed for him was growing with her growth , and maturing with her strength , I only guessed . Max had not written to her since his letter was intercepted in our old school - days . I ...
... talk to me of Max . That the childish attachment formed for him was growing with her growth , and maturing with her strength , I only guessed . Max had not written to her since his letter was intercepted in our old school - days . I ...
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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.