Crayon Sketches, Том 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 |
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... " handsome Polly , " lately , in a fit of despair , finished her career by throwing her- self into one of the canals . Her body was handed over to the civil Poor wretches ! Virtue should have lenity on one hand 2 * STREETS OF LONDON . 9.
... " handsome Polly , " lately , in a fit of despair , finished her career by throwing her- self into one of the canals . Her body was handed over to the civil Poor wretches ! Virtue should have lenity on one hand 2 * STREETS OF LONDON . 9.
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William Cox Theodore Sedgwick Fay. Poor wretches ! Virtue should have lenity on one hand and toleration on the other , when she overlooks their accounts , and take especial note of the few blossoms of good that spring up in such a ...
William Cox Theodore Sedgwick Fay. Poor wretches ! Virtue should have lenity on one hand and toleration on the other , when she overlooks their accounts , and take especial note of the few blossoms of good that spring up in such a ...
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... hand , go along with the words as a commentary , the obvious import of which is , contrary to the ordinary practice of so- ciety , " I mean what I say . " , There is less selfish- ness at christmas than at any other time . Men ap- pear ...
... hand , go along with the words as a commentary , the obvious import of which is , contrary to the ordinary practice of so- ciety , " I mean what I say . " , There is less selfish- ness at christmas than at any other time . Men ap- pear ...
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... hand in hand , and that the clearing away of the immense forests of the west should be one main cause why this pestiferous weather is sub- stituted for the healthy , hardy frosts of former times . It is a great drawback ; for with what ...
... hand in hand , and that the clearing away of the immense forests of the west should be one main cause why this pestiferous weather is sub- stituted for the healthy , hardy frosts of former times . It is a great drawback ; for with what ...
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... hand preparing to twist its neck about , and it never occurs to it to flap its wings or offer any resistance until the head is detatched from the body , which , according to the immutable laws of nature , is a little too late . These ...
... hand preparing to twist its neck about , and it never occurs to it to flap its wings or offer any resistance until the head is detatched from the body , which , according to the immutable laws of nature , is a little too late . These ...
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Страница 242 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Страница 27 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Страница 190 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Страница 235 - Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Страница 108 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Страница 243 - The mountain shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
Страница 233 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Страница 70 - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
Страница 15 - OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Страница 141 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.