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... once into the mere contemplative sentimentalist : So , let us have a little action . What shall it be ? Well then , here is our old family mansion going to wreck ; let me rebuild it , and make a nice thing of it , So rebuild it I did ...
... once into the mere contemplative sentimentalist : So , let us have a little action . What shall it be ? Well then , here is our old family mansion going to wreck ; let me rebuild it , and make a nice thing of it , So rebuild it I did ...
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... once by the shortest cut on Johnie's , leaving him nothing whatever to do in this process of conveyancing save implicitly to ac- quiesce . The next dweller on the right was an elderly widow , who lived alone . Her means were scanty ...
... once by the shortest cut on Johnie's , leaving him nothing whatever to do in this process of conveyancing save implicitly to ac- quiesce . The next dweller on the right was an elderly widow , who lived alone . Her means were scanty ...
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... once It might be midnight when he awoke . There were echoing steps in the church , and human voices ; and by the light of a lantern which one of them carried he saw , when he rose up , the forms of two men . " Who's there ? " he ...
... once It might be midnight when he awoke . There were echoing steps in the church , and human voices ; and by the light of a lantern which one of them carried he saw , when he rose up , the forms of two men . " Who's there ? " he ...
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... once in the most fearless manner with a simple stick which he happened to be carrying , and drew the ferocious brute away from Menie , and full The result of this encounter himself . upon was fatal to the gallant young man . He was ...
... once in the most fearless manner with a simple stick which he happened to be carrying , and drew the ferocious brute away from Menie , and full The result of this encounter himself . upon was fatal to the gallant young man . He was ...
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... once to the very heart of his subject - matter ; strip away its disguises and weaknesses to right and left ; and bring to light at once , and lay bare at his feet , the very unsophisticated , elementary question itself ! All great ...
... once to the very heart of his subject - matter ; strip away its disguises and weaknesses to right and left ; and bring to light at once , and lay bare at his feet , the very unsophisticated , elementary question itself ! All great ...
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Page 80 - And this is in the night. — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee...
Page 47 - Fraught with a transient, frozen shower, If a cloud should haply lower, Sailing o'er the landscape dark, Mute on a sudden is the lark ; But when gleams the sun again O'er the pearl-besprinkled plain. And from behind his watery veil Looks through the thin descending hail ; She mounts, and, lessening to the sight, Salutes the blithe return of light, And high her tuneful track pursues Mid the dim rainbow's scatter'd hues.
Page 171 - Nature seemed In silent contemplation to adore Its Maker. Now and then the aged leaf Fell from its fellows, rustling to the ground, And as it fell bade man think on his end.
Page 60 - Countrymen, My heart doth joy that yet, in all my life, I found no man but he was true to me. I shall have glory by this losing day, More than Octavius and Mark Antony By this vile conquest shall attain unto. So fare you well at once; for Brutus...
Page 214 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy GOD chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy GOD, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him. For the LORD thy GOD bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 39 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 57 - Amphytrion to the Stage, I heard him give it his first Reading to the Actors, in which, though it is true he deliver'd the plain Sense of every Period, yet the whole was in so cold, so flat, and unaffecting a manner, that I am afraid of not being believ'd when I affirm it.
Page 214 - And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war^/zV for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains...