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... Night , " " Hyperion , " & c . Fourth edition . 213 249 X. - The Life of Sir A. Cooper , Bart . By Bransby B. Cooper , Esq . 354 XI . - The Patrician's Daughter : a Tragedy in Five Acts . Fourth Edition . By J. W. Marston . • XII ...
... Night , " " Hyperion , " & c . Fourth edition . 213 249 X. - The Life of Sir A. Cooper , Bart . By Bransby B. Cooper , Esq . 354 XI . - The Patrician's Daughter : a Tragedy in Five Acts . Fourth Edition . By J. W. Marston . • XII ...
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... Night and Day Thoughts . XVII . - Day - Dreams . By Ch . Knox . . 279 . 280 . 281 . 281 XVIII . The Covenant ; or the Conflict of the Church . With other Poems . XIX . - The Gift - Book of Poetry ; selected chiefly from Modern Anthors ...
... Night and Day Thoughts . XVII . - Day - Dreams . By Ch . Knox . . 279 . 280 . 281 . 281 XVIII . The Covenant ; or the Conflict of the Church . With other Poems . XIX . - The Gift - Book of Poetry ; selected chiefly from Modern Anthors ...
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... night , we are all grown quite outrageous ! " And Horace Walpole declared that she had beeen royally gagged , and promoted to fold muslins . " At length she did retire from the royal service , in July 1791 , after five years ' anxiously ...
... night , we are all grown quite outrageous ! " And Horace Walpole declared that she had beeen royally gagged , and promoted to fold muslins . " At length she did retire from the royal service , in July 1791 , after five years ' anxiously ...
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... night in all estates And ranks of life the wicked one inspires . " This , to be sure , is unintelligible enough ; but we are informed what is meant to be expressed by it in the following note : - I had in my mind , when writing this ...
... night in all estates And ranks of life the wicked one inspires . " This , to be sure , is unintelligible enough ; but we are informed what is meant to be expressed by it in the following note : - I had in my mind , when writing this ...
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... night ) , for twelve days , in a direction due north , observed by the polar star , when they saw land , and came to a point , which they named Car na , or the Turn ; in another place it is called Tus cer , or the first Turn , being the ...
... night ) , for twelve days , in a direction due north , observed by the polar star , when they saw land , and came to a point , which they named Car na , or the Turn ; in another place it is called Tus cer , or the first Turn , being the ...
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Page 126 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Page 252 - I wooed the blue-eyed maid, Yielding, yet half afraid, And in the forest's shade Our vows were plighted. Under its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted.
Page 253 - THE RAINY DAY. THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 252 - But when I older grew, Joining a corsair's crew, O'er the dark sea I flew With the marauders. Wild was the life we led ; Many the souls that sped, Many the hearts that bled, By our stern orders. " Many a wassail-bout Wore the long Winter out ; Often our midnight shout Set the cocks crowing, As we the Berserk's tale Measured in cups of ale, Draining the oaken pail, Filled to o'erflowing.
Page 251 - Pale flashes seemed to rise, As when the Northern skies Gleam in December ; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber.
Page 411 - ... hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people...
Page 252 - Oft to his frozen lair Tracked I the grisly bear, While from my path the hare Fled like a shadow ; Oft through the forest dark Followed the werewolf's bark, Until the soaring lark Sang from the meadow. " But when I older grew, Joining a corsair's crew, O'er the dark sea I flew With the marauders.
Page 226 - return to him, and to them that sent you hither, and say to them that they send no more to me for any adventure that falleth, as long as my son is alive. And also say to them that they suffer him this day to win his spurs; for if God be pleased, I will this journey be his and the honour thereof, and to them that be about him.
Page 411 - I would establish but one great general rule to be observed in all conversation, which is this, "that men should not talk to please themselves, but those that hear them." This would make them consider, whether what they speak be worth hearing; whether there be either wit or sense in what they are about to say; and, whether it be adapted to the time when, the place where, and the person to whom, it is spoken.
Page 210 - the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age, and all at eighteen ; the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor, for her parent's offences.