Peter's Letters to His KinsfolkC. S. Van Winkle, 101 Greenwich street, 1820 - 575 страници |
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... seem to have been the staple commodities of a week - day life , among these ferocious nobles ! But , in good truth ... seems , with a very few exceptions , to make a point of never alluding to their existence . It would appear as if he ...
... seem to have been the staple commodities of a week - day life , among these ferocious nobles ! But , in good truth ... seems , with a very few exceptions , to make a point of never alluding to their existence . It would appear as if he ...
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... seems to be perpetually going on between the sarcastic and reverential elements of their disposition - how bitterly they seem to rejoice in their own strength , when they espy , or think they espy , some chink in the armour of their ...
... seems to be perpetually going on between the sarcastic and reverential elements of their disposition - how bitterly they seem to rejoice in their own strength , when they espy , or think they espy , some chink in the armour of their ...
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... indeed , where , or at what time , can a fine wood be looked upon without delight ? Between the wood and the house , there is a good garden , and some fields , in the cultivation of which Mr. J seems to take 34 PETER'S LETters .
... indeed , where , or at what time , can a fine wood be looked upon without delight ? Between the wood and the house , there is a good garden , and some fields , in the cultivation of which Mr. J seems to take 34 PETER'S LETters .
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John Gibson Lockhart. in the cultivation of which Mr. J seems to take much pleasure ; for I had no sooner arrived , than he insisted upon carrying me over his ditches and hedges to show me his me- thod of farming ; and , indeed , talked ...
John Gibson Lockhart. in the cultivation of which Mr. J seems to take much pleasure ; for I had no sooner arrived , than he insisted upon carrying me over his ditches and hedges to show me his me- thod of farming ; and , indeed , talked ...
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... seems to scrutinize them after they are suggested - these alone would be sufficient to make his conversation one of the most re- markable things in the world . But then he invests all this ground - work with such a play of fancy , wit ...
... seems to scrutinize them after they are suggested - these alone would be sufficient to make his conversation one of the most re- markable things in the world . But then he invests all this ground - work with such a play of fancy , wit ...
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Страница 124 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Страница 102 - All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed.
Страница 70 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Страница 345 - On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, his Fancy fetched, Even from the blazing Chariot of the Sun, A beardless Youth, who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment.
Страница 398 - With solemn touches,* troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they Breathing united force with fixed thought Moved on in silence to soft pipes that charmed Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil...
Страница 80 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Страница 340 - ... so thick the aery crowd swarmed and were straitened ; till, the signal given, behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed in bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room throng numberless...
Страница 494 - As if their silent company were charged With peaceful admonitions for the heart Of all-beholding Man, earth's thoughtful lord ; Then, in full many a region, once like this The assured domain of calm simplicity And pensive quiet, an unnatural light Prepared for never-resting Labour's eyes...
Страница 76 - I AM a son of Mars who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars wherever I come ; This here was for a wench, and that other in a trench, When welcoming the French at the sound of the drum.
Страница 76 - And now a widow, I must mourn The pleasures that will ne'er return; No comfort but a hearty can, When I think on John Highlandman. RECITATIVO A pigmy scraper, wi...