Contributions to HerographyE. Darrow, 1850 - 101 páginas |
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... stand alone on that hill of death , and gazing upward , " Think that the dear ones lost may dwell In that fair orb I love so well . " I see my hovering seraphs brighter than all earthly dreams of beauty , their eyes intensely radient ...
... stand alone on that hill of death , and gazing upward , " Think that the dear ones lost may dwell In that fair orb I love so well . " I see my hovering seraphs brighter than all earthly dreams of beauty , their eyes intensely radient ...
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... stand the breath of the least adverse breeze of fortune . " Burns was prone to suspicion , and often thought he saw some lurking baseness where perhaps there was really nothing but the most noble sentiment . A man of genius , conscious ...
... stand the breath of the least adverse breeze of fortune . " Burns was prone to suspicion , and often thought he saw some lurking baseness where perhaps there was really nothing but the most noble sentiment . A man of genius , conscious ...
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... standing with the superior officers of his department , and entirely precluding any reasonable hope of future promotion ; so that his prospect in life was narrowed to a long road of poverty , leading to an humble tomb , over which in ...
... standing with the superior officers of his department , and entirely precluding any reasonable hope of future promotion ; so that his prospect in life was narrowed to a long road of poverty , leading to an humble tomb , over which in ...
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... stand aside and not obstruct the genial sunshine in which he was warming himself . Alexander was surprised at such an exhibition of contented magnanimity - an elevation of soul that raised a naked mendicant immeasurably above the first ...
... stand aside and not obstruct the genial sunshine in which he was warming himself . Alexander was surprised at such an exhibition of contented magnanimity - an elevation of soul that raised a naked mendicant immeasurably above the first ...
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... stand alone and look with an unquailing gaze into the lion's very eye . The same year he made a visit to Hol- land , where he was received with marks of the most distin- guished attention from men of science and of literature , and ...
... stand alone and look with an unquailing gaze into the lion's very eye . The same year he made a visit to Hol- land , where he was received with marks of the most distin- guished attention from men of science and of literature , and ...
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Página 14 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, and fondly broods with miser care ; time but the impression deeper makes, as streams their channels deeper wear.
Página 13 - Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest-? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast...
Página 53 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 32 - Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Página 19 - Faith, he maunna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that; Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a
Página 12 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Página 12 - And mouldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly ! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary.
Página 14 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight...
Página 13 - Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah, little thought we 'twas our last ) Ayr gurgling kiss'd his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods thick'ning green : The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.
Página 19 - Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, an' a that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man's a Man for a