The First Lieutenant's Story, Volume 140Routledge, 1856 - 455 pages |
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... thank him , he was again encadré ( framed ) in his own door- way , amid his " cinque perrucche e pomata fina " ( " five wigs , and fine pomatum " ) . How strange it seems now ! But in going over these things again , I feel for the ...
... thank him , he was again encadré ( framed ) in his own door- way , amid his " cinque perrucche e pomata fina " ( " five wigs , and fine pomatum " ) . How strange it seems now ! But in going over these things again , I feel for the ...
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... Thank God ! " I exclaimed , drawing a long breath of relief . " Why ? " she asked , looking at me in amazement . 66 Oh , I don't know ; only I felt that your liking him would have made me very miserable . " 66 66 ' Is he , then , so bad ...
... Thank God ! " I exclaimed , drawing a long breath of relief . " Why ? " she asked , looking at me in amazement . 66 Oh , I don't know ; only I felt that your liking him would have made me very miserable . " 66 66 ' Is he , then , so bad ...
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... Thanking him most sincerely for his cordial words , and shaking hands with them both , I then took my leave ; joyful -oh , how joyful ! -at having found the bright image of my imagination more than answered by the brighter reality , and ...
... Thanking him most sincerely for his cordial words , and shaking hands with them both , I then took my leave ; joyful -oh , how joyful ! -at having found the bright image of my imagination more than answered by the brighter reality , and ...
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... Thank you , " he said ; then remained standing , as if he had something else to say ; but nothing seeming to occur , he again said , " Thank you , " and walked away . Captain Normanton was a handsome man ; but the workings 23 22 THE ...
... Thank you , " he said ; then remained standing , as if he had something else to say ; but nothing seeming to occur , he again said , " Thank you , " and walked away . Captain Normanton was a handsome man ; but the workings 23 22 THE ...
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... thank God , been preserved from much of the vice with which I was but too continually surrounded , but still I was wholly thoughtless , and careless of every principle ; and what there might happen to be in me of good , was purely the ...
... thank God , been preserved from much of the vice with which I was but too continually surrounded , but still I was wholly thoughtless , and careless of every principle ; and what there might happen to be in me of good , was purely the ...
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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...