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... present . And courage , now ! I must not mope away all at 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 ...
... present . And courage , now ! I must not mope away all at 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 ...
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... present notice , was a Fairy Changeling . His mother was one day shearing in the harvest field . She had left her plump rosy - cheeked infant lying asleep in her shawl at one of the stooks on the head - rig . 20 THE FAIRY CHANGELING ...
... present notice , was a Fairy Changeling . His mother was one day shearing in the harvest field . She had left her plump rosy - cheeked infant lying asleep in her shawl at one of the stooks on the head - rig . 20 THE FAIRY CHANGELING ...
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... fancy which such a wall presents . But there are more wonderful examples still of the faculty of which I have been speaking . Without the help of any suggestion whatever from any external object on which he might 36 SPRING IN THE COUNTRY .
... fancy which such a wall presents . But there are more wonderful examples still of the faculty of which I have been speaking . Without the help of any suggestion whatever from any external object on which he might 36 SPRING IN THE COUNTRY .
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... present moon , we are told by the knowing ones , has a bad appearance : It is pitiful to see her pale and watery sickle struggling through the great blotches of clouds that so often possess the firmament . Unless the weather clear up ...
... present moon , we are told by the knowing ones , has a bad appearance : It is pitiful to see her pale and watery sickle struggling through the great blotches of clouds that so often possess the firmament . Unless the weather clear up ...
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... present men , women , and children go creeping about like parish starve- lings , with peevish tempers , and drops at their pale - blue noses . Nay , the whole Earth - clod , blade , branch , bird , beast , and human being - looks as if ...
... present men , women , and children go creeping about like parish starve- lings , with peevish tempers , and drops at their pale - blue noses . Nay , the whole Earth - clod , blade , branch , bird , beast , and human being - looks as if ...
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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...