The First Lieutenant's Story, Volume 140Routledge, 1856 - 455 pages |
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... leave to go ashore . I was wandering about there alone one beautiful summer's evening , delighted to have the springing grass once more beneath my feet , and to exchange the tarry atmosphere of the ship for the scent of the wild flowers ...
... leave to go ashore . I was wandering about there alone one beautiful summer's evening , delighted to have the springing grass once more beneath my feet , and to exchange the tarry atmosphere of the ship for the scent of the wild flowers ...
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... leave , Mr. St. Clair , " he said , in a quiet , cutting tone . " I am very sorry , sir ; but just as I was going to join my boat , I saw that house on fire yonder , and I thought you could not be displeased " But I am displeased , sir ...
... leave , Mr. St. Clair , " he said , in a quiet , cutting tone . " I am very sorry , sir ; but just as I was going to join my boat , I saw that house on fire yonder , and I thought you could not be displeased " But I am displeased , sir ...
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... leave the place without again seeing her whom I had saved . More rational ideas , however , returned in a short time ; and before doing anything desperate , I bethought me of using the simple expedient of asking leave again . I did so ...
... leave the place without again seeing her whom I had saved . More rational ideas , however , returned in a short time ; and before doing anything desperate , I bethought me of using the simple expedient of asking leave again . I did so ...
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... leave the place ; though he has often talked of going to his own country . " " And have you always lived alone with that old — I mean , with your father ? " " Her eye had glanced up quickly at my first irreverential term ; but seeing ...
... leave the place ; though he has often talked of going to his own country . " " And have you always lived alone with that old — I mean , with your father ? " " Her eye had glanced up quickly at my first irreverential term ; but seeing ...
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... leave ; joyful -oh , how joyful ! -at having found the bright image of my imagination more than answered by the brighter reality , and gratified and enchanted beyond words at the gracious reception I had met with . CHAPTER III ...
... leave ; joyful -oh , how joyful ! -at having found the bright image of my imagination more than answered by the brighter reality , and gratified and enchanted beyond words at the gracious reception I had met with . CHAPTER III ...
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Page 329 - Blest power of sunshine ! — genial Day, What balm, what life is in thy ray ! To feel thee is such real bliss, That had the world no joy but this, To sit in sunshine calm and sweet, — It were a world too exquisite For man to leave it for the gloom, The deep, cold shadow of the tomb.
Page 156 - O'er youth's bright locks, and beauty's flowery crown, — Yet must thou hear a voice — restore the dead ! Earth shall reclaim her precious things from thee ! — Restore the dead, thou sea ! BRING FLOWERS.
Page 25 - Yet, fill'd with all youth's sweet desires, Mingling the meek and vestal fires Of other worlds with all the bliss, The fond, weak tenderness of this ! A soul, too, more than half divine, Where, through some shades of earthly feeling, Religion's...
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Page 156 - Give back the lost and lovely ! those for whom The place was kept at board and hearth so long, The prayer went up...