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... tell them Richard swore it : Be the smoke of their den their funeral pall ! By the Holy Tomb , I'll hang them all ! They've hung out so well behind their wall , They'll hang out well before it . " Then Richard laughed in his hearty way ...
... tell them Richard swore it : Be the smoke of their den their funeral pall ! By the Holy Tomb , I'll hang them all ! They've hung out so well behind their wall , They'll hang out well before it . " Then Richard laughed in his hearty way ...
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... tell how long , - but had not abandoned the haunts of his exile . They still for many a year saw the wilderness beneath their daily flight giving place to arable fields , and learned to exchange their wary guard against the Indian's ...
... tell how long , - but had not abandoned the haunts of his exile . They still for many a year saw the wilderness beneath their daily flight giving place to arable fields , and learned to exchange their wary guard against the Indian's ...
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... tell us of the old Proprietary Mansion , he said , in his way , he " membered it , as if it was built only yesterday : he was fotch up so near it , that he could see it now as if it was standing before him : if he couldn't pint out ...
... tell us of the old Proprietary Mansion , he said , in his way , he " membered it , as if it was built only yesterday : he was fotch up so near it , that he could see it now as if it was standing before him : if he couldn't pint out ...
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... tell . From 1688 to 1692 is one of our dark intervals of which I have spoken . It begins with a domestic revolution and ends with the appointment of a Royal Governor , and that is pretty nearly all we know about it . After this , there ...
... tell . From 1688 to 1692 is one of our dark intervals of which I have spoken . It begins with a domestic revolution and ends with the appointment of a Royal Governor , and that is pretty nearly all we know about it . After this , there ...
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... tell us . Others , feeling a similar horror , and some of them conscious of the enmities they should leave behind them , have themselves written the obscurer portions of their own lives , like Hume , Gibbon , Gifford , Scott , Moore ...
... tell us . Others , feeling a similar horror , and some of them conscious of the enmities they should leave behind them , have themselves written the obscurer portions of their own lives , like Hume , Gibbon , Gifford , Scott , Moore ...
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Page 355 - They climb up into my turret O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I' try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere.
Page 355 - HOUR. BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.
Page 69 - Sit, worthy friends : — my lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth : pray you, keep seat ; The fit is momentary ; upon a...
Page 291 - With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces.
Page 389 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 355 - I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away...
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Page 137 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 355 - I hear in the chamber above me • The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise.
Page 230 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...