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... give no clearer answer to the question , than by laying before his read- ers a simple statement of the facts connected with its original publication . Many years since , the writer of this volume was at the residence of an illustrious ...
... give no clearer answer to the question , than by laying before his read- ers a simple statement of the facts connected with its original publication . Many years since , the writer of this volume was at the residence of an illustrious ...
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... give to the world a work which aided perhaps , in some slight degree , to feed the imaginations of the young and unpractised among his own countrymen , by pictures drawn from a state of society so different from that to which he ...
... give to the world a work which aided perhaps , in some slight degree , to feed the imaginations of the young and unpractised among his own countrymen , by pictures drawn from a state of society so different from that to which he ...
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... give the reader some idea of the hopes of an American author , in the first quarter of the pres- ent century . As the second volume was slowly print- ing , from manuscript that was barely dry when it went into the compositor's hands ...
... give the reader some idea of the hopes of an American author , in the first quarter of the pres- ent century . As the second volume was slowly print- ing , from manuscript that was barely dry when it went into the compositor's hands ...
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... give lodgings to a stranger in these ticklish times , " said the female in a pert sharp key ; " I'm nothing but a for- lorn lone body ; or , what's the same thing , there's nobody but the old gentleman at home ; but a half mile further ...
... give lodgings to a stranger in these ticklish times , " said the female in a pert sharp key ; " I'm nothing but a for- lorn lone body ; or , what's the same thing , there's nobody but the old gentleman at home ; but a half mile further ...
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... give a reluctant acquiescence . Some of the dishes were replaced by the orders of Miss Peyton , and the weather - beaten intruder was invited to partake of the re- mains of the repast , from which the party had just risen . Throwing ...
... give a reluctant acquiescence . Some of the dishes were replaced by the orders of Miss Peyton , and the weather - beaten intruder was invited to partake of the re- mains of the repast , from which the party had just risen . Throwing ...
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Էջ 135 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Էջ 202 - t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ.
Էջ 208 - And let me the canakin clink, clink; And let me the canakin clink A soldier's a man; A life's but a span; Why, then, let a soldier drink.
Էջ 316 - Hush'd were his Gertrude's lips ! but still their bland And beautiful expression seem'd to melt With love that could not die ! and still his hand She presses to the heart no more that felt.
Էջ 106 - So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Էջ 329 - No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Էջ 381 - The wind did blow, the cloak did fly Like streamer long and gay, Till loop and button failing both, At last it flew away.
Էջ 190 - To fold his fingers, all in dread the while, Till Mister Ashford soften'd to a smile ; No more that meek and suppliant look in prayer, Nor the pure faith (to give it force), are there : — But he is blest, and I lament no more-] A wise good man contented to be poor.
Էջ 284 - I see a Johnny Birch come out of he grave — Johnny walk afore he buried." " Ah ! then he must have led an evil life indeed," said Hollister ; " the blessed in spirit lie quiet until the general muster, but wickedness disturbs the soul in this life as well as in that which is to come.
Էջ 149 - With this threat they withdrew to one of their usual places of resort, until darkness should again give them an opportunity of marauding on the community without danger of detection.