The First Lieutenant's Story, Volume 140Routledge, 1856 - 455 pages |
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... NIGHT AND MORNING . LUCRETIA . PELHAM . PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE . Price 1s . 6d . each , GODOLPHIN . PAUL CLIFFORD . ALICE ; or , the Mysteries . ERNEST MALTRAVERS . RIENZI . EUGENE ARAM . DEVEREUX . DISOWNED ( THE ) . LAST DAYS OF ...
... NIGHT AND MORNING . LUCRETIA . PELHAM . PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE . Price 1s . 6d . each , GODOLPHIN . PAUL CLIFFORD . ALICE ; or , the Mysteries . ERNEST MALTRAVERS . RIENZI . EUGENE ARAM . DEVEREUX . DISOWNED ( THE ) . LAST DAYS OF ...
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... NIGHT SIDE OF NATURE . LILLY DAWSON . " Mrs. Crowe has a clearness and plain force of style , and a power in giving reality to a scene , by accumulating a number of minute details , that reminds us forcibly of Defoe . " - Aberdeen ...
... NIGHT SIDE OF NATURE . LILLY DAWSON . " Mrs. Crowe has a clearness and plain force of style , and a power in giving reality to a scene , by accumulating a number of minute details , that reminds us forcibly of Defoe . " - Aberdeen ...
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... this life , will have to say , -when they have entered on the " deep dawn beyond the grave : " " Lord , we have toiled all night and yet caught nothing . " INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . EXTRACT FROM " SIR ROLAND ASHTON . viii PREFACE .
... this life , will have to say , -when they have entered on the " deep dawn beyond the grave : " " Lord , we have toiled all night and yet caught nothing . " INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . EXTRACT FROM " SIR ROLAND ASHTON . viii PREFACE .
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... night - scenes waken melancholy thoughts , Mr. Ashton , ” said the first - lieutenant . " Not more so than sunshine , " replied Henry , gloomily . " Not if we like holding silent communion with the Father of our spirits , " said Mr. St ...
... night - scenes waken melancholy thoughts , Mr. Ashton , ” said the first - lieutenant . " Not more so than sunshine , " replied Henry , gloomily . " Not if we like holding silent communion with the Father of our spirits , " said Mr. St ...
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... night . Mr. St. Clair felt a painful compassion for this young and sor- rowing heart , and spoke words of kindest sympathy . After a few moments Henry became more composed . 66 ' I am very weak , " he said B 2 INTRODUCTION . 3 "You have ...
... night . Mr. St. Clair felt a painful compassion for this young and sor- rowing heart , and spoke words of kindest sympathy . After a few moments Henry became more composed . 66 ' I am very weak , " he said B 2 INTRODUCTION . 3 "You have ...
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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...
Page 356 - Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think, there be six Richmonds in the field ; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him: — A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! [Exeunt.
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...