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... Mean- while a country boy , still under age , was surprised when certain stanzas entitled " Amavi , " which he had mailed to PUTNAM's at a venture , were printed there in October , 1853 , and was glad of the check earned by his first ...
... Mean- while a country boy , still under age , was surprised when certain stanzas entitled " Amavi , " which he had mailed to PUTNAM's at a venture , were printed there in October , 1853 , and was glad of the check earned by his first ...
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... means of transport , or the quaint and unaccus- tomed aspect of the town itself , en- hanced by the beauty of the weather , I cannot say , but certainly we were delighted with the place at first sight . As visitors may recall , the ...
... means of transport , or the quaint and unaccus- tomed aspect of the town itself , en- hanced by the beauty of the weather , I cannot say , but certainly we were delighted with the place at first sight . As visitors may recall , the ...
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... mean any offence . " we At this moment our attention was distracted by violent discharges of firearms close at hand , accompanied by wild shouts and the hideous din of tom - toms and the native bag - pipe . A Frenchman named Lagraine ...
... mean any offence . " we At this moment our attention was distracted by violent discharges of firearms close at hand , accompanied by wild shouts and the hideous din of tom - toms and the native bag - pipe . A Frenchman named Lagraine ...
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... mean- time let us get all the good we can out of this poor world of ours . I am far from you , my good Papa ; I look forward to the time of r meeting , and I am pleased to think that your regrets and desires equal mine . My mother and ...
... mean- time let us get all the good we can out of this poor world of ours . I am far from you , my good Papa ; I look forward to the time of r meeting , and I am pleased to think that your regrets and desires equal mine . My mother and ...
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... mean the indorsement of whitewashing ; and both the interested individuals who need whitewashing , and those others who practise mud- slinging , like to encourage such con- fusion of ideas . One of the chief counts against those who ...
... mean the indorsement of whitewashing ; and both the interested individuals who need whitewashing , and those others who practise mud- slinging , like to encourage such con- fusion of ideas . One of the chief counts against those who ...
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Page 731 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 515 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 270 - So when they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Page 297 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Page 731 - The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Page 750 - The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire.
Page 44 - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.
Page 337 - Here let us sport. Boys, as we sit; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short; When we are gone, Let them sing on Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this; Faces we miss. Pleasant to see. Kind hearts and true, Gentle and just, Peace to your dust! We sing round the tree.
Page 296 - Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings. Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Page 337 - Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree.