Peter's Letters to His KinsfolkC. S. Van Winkle, 101 Greenwich street, 1820 - 575 страници |
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... suppose it to be done in water colours , and to be cover- ed with a glass . But it is in oils , and on a very old piece of oak ( for I once took it down to examine it ) . It strikes me , that they used to tell some story about its ...
... suppose it to be done in water colours , and to be cover- ed with a glass . But it is in oils , and on a very old piece of oak ( for I once took it down to examine it ) . It strikes me , that they used to tell some story about its ...
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... suppose you must have done , can possibly be of opinion that they are at all an ugly na- tion ; although it is very likely he may be inclined to prefer the general appearance of some other nation or nations to theirs . For my part , I ...
... suppose you must have done , can possibly be of opinion that they are at all an ugly na- tion ; although it is very likely he may be inclined to prefer the general appearance of some other nation or nations to theirs . For my part , I ...
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... suppose that they are fairer than with us . And yet the testimony of travel- lers cannot be entirely despised ; and if their report is in any degree a correct one , light hair , and light eyes , were almost universal at no very remote ...
... suppose that they are fairer than with us . And yet the testimony of travel- lers cannot be entirely despised ; and if their report is in any degree a correct one , light hair , and light eyes , were almost universal at no very remote ...
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... I AM rather surprised that you should already begin to call upon me for disquisition , when you may well suppose I have still so many interesting descriptions to give you . 6 PETER'S LETTERS . 41 —Mr W ——Tories-Whigs-Clergy-David Hume,
... I AM rather surprised that you should already begin to call upon me for disquisition , when you may well suppose I have still so many interesting descriptions to give you . 6 PETER'S LETTERS . 41 —Mr W ——Tories-Whigs-Clergy-David Hume,
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... suppose , in leaping , wrestling , or boxing , he might easily beat any of the poets , his contemporaries - and I rather sus- pect , that in speaking , he would have as easy a triumph over the whole of them , except Coleridge . In ...
... suppose , in leaping , wrestling , or boxing , he might easily beat any of the poets , his contemporaries - and I rather sus- pect , that in speaking , he would have as easy a triumph over the whole of them , except Coleridge . In ...
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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...