The First Lieutenant's Story, Volume 140Routledge, 1856 - 455 pages |
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... seemed to fill the whole interior of the house . Exclamations of " Salvatela , " " La poveretta , " La bella , " ( " Save her , " " The poor thing , " " The beautiful , " ) resounded on all sides , accompanied by the frantic ...
... seemed to fill the whole interior of the house . Exclamations of " Salvatela , " " La poveretta , " La bella , " ( " Save her , " " The poor thing , " " The beautiful , " ) resounded on all sides , accompanied by the frantic ...
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... seemed to know no bounds . He seized my bleeding hands , and kissed them convulsively , whilst he called me by every good name his grateful heart could suggest . At length I disengaged myself from him , for I ought long ago to have been ...
... seemed to know no bounds . He seized my bleeding hands , and kissed them convulsively , whilst he called me by every good name his grateful heart could suggest . At length I disengaged myself from him , for I ought long ago to have been ...
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... seemed to have a right to her beyond all others , and fretted myself into a fever of irritation and jealousy on the subject , as foolish as it was painful . The Captain returned to the ship in a mood not THE FIRST - LIEUTENANT'S STORY . 9.
... seemed to have a right to her beyond all others , and fretted myself into a fever of irritation and jealousy on the subject , as foolish as it was painful . The Captain returned to the ship in a mood not THE FIRST - LIEUTENANT'S STORY . 9.
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... seemed , and having , with the intuitive quickness of his nation , gathered from my dress and countenance the story of my expectation and disappointment , -rushed across the narrow street , and with nods innumerable , showered with a ...
... seemed , and having , with the intuitive quickness of his nation , gathered from my dress and countenance the story of my expectation and disappointment , -rushed across the narrow street , and with nods innumerable , showered with a ...
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... seemed almost to look about me to find objects to love , so large , though so full , did my heart seem ! To the thought of my mother I turned with an affection I had never even imagined before ; and instead of the almost schoolboy ...
... seemed almost to look about me to find objects to love , so large , though so full , did my heart seem ! To the thought of my mother I turned with an affection I had never even imagined before ; and instead of the almost schoolboy ...
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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.
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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...