The First Lieutenant's Story, Volume 140Routledge, 1856 - 455 pages |
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... pleasure by every one . " THE ROVING ENGLISHMAN'S WORKS . Price One Shilling , THE ROVING ENGLISHMAN ; or , Sketches on the Continent . Price Two Shillings , boards , TURKEY , by the Roving Englishman ; Being Sketches from Life . " Who ...
... pleasure by every one . " THE ROVING ENGLISHMAN'S WORKS . Price One Shilling , THE ROVING ENGLISHMAN ; or , Sketches on the Continent . Price Two Shillings , boards , TURKEY , by the Roving Englishman ; Being Sketches from Life . " Who ...
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... pleasure to hear the record of sufferings which make one's heart bleed , while one cannot raise a finger in help . But a little word of God's peace will sometimes cheer a drooping spirit , if Satan's power be not too hard upon it . You ...
... pleasure to hear the record of sufferings which make one's heart bleed , while one cannot raise a finger in help . But a little word of God's peace will sometimes cheer a drooping spirit , if Satan's power be not too hard upon it . You ...
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... pleasure at having been of service , " & c . , I turned , with rather a heavy heart , to make my way back to my boat . But that was not to be - quietly at least ; for the people , who had pressed closely around us , set up another ...
... pleasure at having been of service , " & c . , I turned , with rather a heavy heart , to make my way back to my boat . But that was not to be - quietly at least ; for the people , who had pressed closely around us , set up another ...
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... pleasure which his agitated lips could not speak . I too felt choking ; so for a time not a word was spoken , as we all three stood together smiling through our tears , and crying through our smiles , till at last the old man suddenly ...
... pleasure which his agitated lips could not speak . I too felt choking ; so for a time not a word was spoken , as we all three stood together smiling through our tears , and crying through our smiles , till at last the old man suddenly ...
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... pleasure , my father used to bring me here sometimes , and we had a little feast - for this is my nurse's house - and she loved to have me here ; and my father liked better to come to her , for a time , than to take another house just ...
... pleasure , my father used to bring me here sometimes , and we had a little feast - for this is my nurse's house - and she loved to have me here ; and my father liked better to come to her , for a time , than to take another house just ...
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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...