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... close Like prison - walls about me ? " No mood is mine to seek a wife , Or daughter for my mother ; Who loves you loses in that love All power to love another ! " I dare your pity or your scorn , With pride your own exceeding ; I fling ...
... close Like prison - walls about me ? " No mood is mine to seek a wife , Or daughter for my mother ; Who loves you loses in that love All power to love another ! " I dare your pity or your scorn , With pride your own exceeding ; I fling ...
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... close to the door - stone , bent from the darkness , and announced his errand . A vessel had gone to pieces on the beach , he said , -a whaler apparently , that had sailed round the world to be wrecked in sight of her own wharf at last ...
... close to the door - stone , bent from the darkness , and announced his errand . A vessel had gone to pieces on the beach , he said , -a whaler apparently , that had sailed round the world to be wrecked in sight of her own wharf at last ...
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... close in the throat , with its white collar and jet button , and her pretty hair gathered into a knot out of which each tress evidently longed to break and assert its freedom in a riot of curls . Her mother introduced her in form . She ...
... close in the throat , with its white collar and jet button , and her pretty hair gathered into a knot out of which each tress evidently longed to break and assert its freedom in a riot of curls . Her mother introduced her in form . She ...
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... close be- hind him . " A pretty rig you ' ve made me run ! And there ' s your mother— " " O , it's father ! " cried one of the girls , scampering along the beach , and falling into his arms with an hysterical laugh . " O , I did n't ...
... close be- hind him . " A pretty rig you ' ve made me run ! And there ' s your mother— " " O , it's father ! " cried one of the girls , scampering along the beach , and falling into his arms with an hysterical laugh . " O , I did n't ...
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... close to a window , where perhaps the large- type headings of the news might be made out by the aid of a glass . There was just light enough for that , and we sat awhile waiting for more . It came with such strange and tantalizing slow ...
... close to a window , where perhaps the large- type headings of the news might be made out by the aid of a glass . There was just light enough for that , and we sat awhile waiting for more . It came with such strange and tantalizing slow ...
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Page 56 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike; And like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Page 226 - The question fairly stated is, Has the Constitution delegated to Congress the power to coerce a State into submission which is attempting to withdraw or has actually withdrawn from the Confederacy?
Page 385 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall : The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call : The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 482 - That hereafter, in this State, there shall be neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; and all persons held to service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free.
Page 555 - Little improvement can be expected in morality until the producing large families is regarded with the same feelings as drunkenness or any other physical excess. But while the aristocracy and clergy are foremost to set the example of this kind of incontinence, what can be expected from the poor?
Page 609 - sa narrow ridge in the graveyard Would scarce stay a child in his race, But to me and my thought it is wider Than the star-sown vague of Space.
Page 108 - If ever I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed; and here I have been glad and hopeful, and here I have been despondent.
Page 286 - The number was not so great as we expected; and tho' they had been of great use, yet some inconveniences occurring for want of due care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library.
Page 370 - He scarce believes he's older for his years. Thus, at life's latest eve, we keep in store One disappointment sure, to crown the rest; The disappointment of a promis'd hour.
Page 610 - Communion in spirit! Forgive me, But I, who am earthy and weak, Would give all my incomes from dreamland For a touch of her hand on my cheek. That little shoe in the corner, So worn and wrinkled and brown, With its emptiness confutes you, And argues your wisdom down.