Literary recreations; or, Scenes from real lifeWhittaker & Company, 1833 - 323 Seiten |
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... attention above its fellow thought . A line of venerable elms , placed at equal distances , rose on each side the building , forming , even in the meridian of day , a cool retreat ; being nearly impervious to the speary rays of the sun ...
... attention above its fellow thought . A line of venerable elms , placed at equal distances , rose on each side the building , forming , even in the meridian of day , a cool retreat ; being nearly impervious to the speary rays of the sun ...
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... was suddenly broken up by a long hysteric groan , which ap- peared to proceed from one of the graves . I started suddenly from my fixed posture , and listened with breathless attention , but all was silent ; the same 12 THE BROTHERS .
... was suddenly broken up by a long hysteric groan , which ap- peared to proceed from one of the graves . I started suddenly from my fixed posture , and listened with breathless attention , but all was silent ; the same 12 THE BROTHERS .
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John Young (M.A.). breathless attention , but all was silent ; the same awful stillness reigned ; and , by degrees , the fever- ish heat which had rushed through my system subsided to a regular temperature . Scarcely , how- ever , had I ...
John Young (M.A.). breathless attention , but all was silent ; the same awful stillness reigned ; and , by degrees , the fever- ish heat which had rushed through my system subsided to a regular temperature . Scarcely , how- ever , had I ...
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... attention for the rumbling of the wheels of the conveyance , which now would have sounded to her more sweet than the most delightful music : but no sound sa- luted her ear . She strolled round the walks of the garden , and prepared a ...
... attention for the rumbling of the wheels of the conveyance , which now would have sounded to her more sweet than the most delightful music : but no sound sa- luted her ear . She strolled round the walks of the garden , and prepared a ...
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... attention was roused in an extraordinary degree . I had not mentioned names , and , therefore , when I ceased , he inquired , with evident anxiety , the name of the young man to whom I referred . - I answered , " Alfred Harlow ...
... attention was roused in an extraordinary degree . I had not mentioned names , and , therefore , when I ceased , he inquired , with evident anxiety , the name of the young man to whom I referred . - I answered , " Alfred Harlow ...
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abode Adolphus affection affectionate agony Alfred anxiety appeared arms attention awhile beauty became beheld Belmont beloved bosom bright eye brother Captain cation cerned character charms cheek cheerful child Chowanskoi circumstances conduct countenance dear death ears Egbert Emma engaged entered Eudocia Eustace exclaimed father favoured fear feelings fell felt Freeport frequently friendship furnished gazed gentle gentleman George O'Brien Wyndham Gibraltar Gilbert grief habit hand happy Harmer heard heart honour Hugglescote instantly Lake Erie Laura looked Lord Exmouth marriage mind morning mother nature never noble observed occasion Ohobyholio Olivia Overreach parents passed perceived period person pleasure possessed present racter reached received retired river Avon rose scarcely scenes seat seemed silent smile Sobiesky soon sorrow soul spirit stood stranger tale tears things thought threw town trafficker in human turned uncon Valdai voice walked Waltingham wife youth
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Seite 86 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Seite 112 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, At the presence of the LORD of the whole earth.
Seite 211 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Seite 69 - A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again : pronounce a text, Cry, hem ! and, reading -what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
Seite 72 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Seite 209 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Seite 205 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Seite 14 - To set before your sight your glorious race, That this presaging joy may fire your mind To seek the shores by destiny design'd." — "O father, can it be, that souls sublime Return to visit our terrestrial clime, And that the gen'rous mind, releas'd by death, Can covet lazy limbs and mortal breath?
Seite 309 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Seite 197 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.