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Page 27
... mirth in their diversified tones ? Watch the gambols of the brute cre- ation . The rabbit frisking over the lonely heath . A The squirrel skipping lightly from bough to bough , in the deep wood , The horse swiftly traversing the smooth ...
... mirth in their diversified tones ? Watch the gambols of the brute cre- ation . The rabbit frisking over the lonely heath . A The squirrel skipping lightly from bough to bough , in the deep wood , The horse swiftly traversing the smooth ...
Page 58
... mirth , with such a glance of artless sportiveness , that many a pas- ser - by stopped to gaze upon the blithe- some boy , and ask themselves if any face could be deemed unlovely , irradiated by such an eye , enlivened by such a smile ...
... mirth , with such a glance of artless sportiveness , that many a pas- ser - by stopped to gaze upon the blithe- some boy , and ask themselves if any face could be deemed unlovely , irradiated by such an eye , enlivened by such a smile ...
Page 66
... mirth , with ac- tivity , on the mountain's brow . The exercise shall brace thy body , as the view of nature shall refresh thy mind . Still mournful ! Hast thou exhausted Nature , or have her beauties lost their power to charm ? The ...
... mirth , with ac- tivity , on the mountain's brow . The exercise shall brace thy body , as the view of nature shall refresh thy mind . Still mournful ! Hast thou exhausted Nature , or have her beauties lost their power to charm ? The ...
Page 71
... mirth and social glee burst from the lips in the harmless jest . The smile contagious flies around the circle , spreading as it flies . As the stone , flung into the smooth surface of the water , dimples with airy and increasing rings ...
... mirth and social glee burst from the lips in the harmless jest . The smile contagious flies around the circle , spreading as it flies . As the stone , flung into the smooth surface of the water , dimples with airy and increasing rings ...
Page 84
... mirth and pleasure resounded from every corner . From no place more heartily than from the generous bosom of Hubert . At night the brothers placed their treasures in an outhouse ; the building was by accident burnt down in the course of ...
... mirth and pleasure resounded from every corner . From no place more heartily than from the generous bosom of Hubert . At night the brothers placed their treasures in an outhouse ; the building was by accident burnt down in the course of ...
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Page 99 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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