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... never had time to read it until I came here . It is very beautiful . Clavering ? " Do you know it , Lady " I do , " replied that lady , a shade of strange and mournful thought coming over her counte- nance . " That is , I once began ...
... never had time to read it until I came here . It is very beautiful . Clavering ? " Do you know it , Lady " I do , " replied that lady , a shade of strange and mournful thought coming over her counte- nance . " That is , I once began ...
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... never laid aside - still more - of that expression of countenance which tells so plainly of bye - gone grief and suffering - she scarcely looked her age . She was tall , as tall as her eldest daughter , but lost some of her height by a ...
... never laid aside - still more - of that expression of countenance which tells so plainly of bye - gone grief and suffering - she scarcely looked her age . She was tall , as tall as her eldest daughter , but lost some of her height by a ...
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... never fully arisen . from which her spirit Something which had and which , uncalled , stilled and quelled it , would still force itself upon her recollection , so as well nigh to banish the present . There was , at times , an almost ...
... never fully arisen . from which her spirit Something which had and which , uncalled , stilled and quelled it , would still force itself upon her recollection , so as well nigh to banish the present . There was , at times , an almost ...
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... never having left the North , it was the more remarkable , spoke with the least inflection of what is in general the most ineradicable of national accents . That broad and quaint Doric hung upon the tongue of Mrs. Monro's friend , Miss ...
... never having left the North , it was the more remarkable , spoke with the least inflection of what is in general the most ineradicable of national accents . That broad and quaint Doric hung upon the tongue of Mrs. Monro's friend , Miss ...
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... never go out anywhere , else I should be most happy to join you . And Miss Brodie- " " Miss Brodie , my dear , " interrupted that old lady , " would be thinking lang for her tea afore she got her denner , I doot . It's just amazin ' to ...
... never go out anywhere , else I should be most happy to join you . And Miss Brodie- " " Miss Brodie , my dear , " interrupted that old lady , " would be thinking lang for her tea afore she got her denner , I doot . It's just amazin ' to ...
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Page 129 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 93 - ... still. Dear Harp of my Country ! farewell to thy numbers, This sweet wreath of song is the last we shall twine ! Go, sleep with the sunshine of Fame on thy slumbers, Till touch'd by some hand less unworthy than mine ; If the pulse of the patriot, soldier, or lover, Have throbb'd at our lay, 'tis thy glory alone ; I was but as the wind, passing heedlessly over, And all the wild sweetness I wak'd was thy own.
Page 116 - God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Page 151 - It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.