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... whole earth seemed to have been converted into a lake ; the waters were on every hand . " Halloa ! Hanford ! " was now distinctly heard from a prominence about fifty yards east of the house in anticipation of his neighbour's distress ...
... whole earth seemed to have been converted into a lake ; the waters were on every hand . " Halloa ! Hanford ! " was now distinctly heard from a prominence about fifty yards east of the house in anticipation of his neighbour's distress ...
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... whole extent , is a sharp waving ridge , higher at each end than in the middle . This outline of the summit has been compared in form to a bull -- the northern bluff being taken for the towering neck and head , with which , as if in ...
... whole extent , is a sharp waving ridge , higher at each end than in the middle . This outline of the summit has been compared in form to a bull -- the northern bluff being taken for the towering neck and head , with which , as if in ...
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... whole sky was a deep blue , with moon and stars which seemed liter- ally to blaze on high , so pure was the atmos- phere . We were now in the Mediterranean , " That tideless sea Which changeless rolls eternally . " On our left rose the ...
... whole sky was a deep blue , with moon and stars which seemed liter- ally to blaze on high , so pure was the atmos- phere . We were now in the Mediterranean , " That tideless sea Which changeless rolls eternally . " On our left rose the ...
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... whole picture . Thus , although the lights are all full , and even bril- liant , there is no harshness of shadow . This style has many admirers , and Mr. Gurney's cameras are consequently always employed with sitters . His gallery ...
... whole picture . Thus , although the lights are all full , and even bril- liant , there is no harshness of shadow . This style has many admirers , and Mr. Gurney's cameras are consequently always employed with sitters . His gallery ...
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... whole day without writing something . " " And I wish you also would make a prac- tice of it , my dear girl , " said Colonel Stan- brook , patting Cornelia's cheek . " It improves the mind ; and I do not know a more desira- ble ...
... whole day without writing something . " " And I wish you also would make a prac- tice of it , my dear girl , " said Colonel Stan- brook , patting Cornelia's cheek . " It improves the mind ; and I do not know a more desira- ble ...
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Page 151 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 18 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 125 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...
Page 109 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 179 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake ; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 78 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 153 - And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now, And but for that chill changeless brow, Where cold obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart...
Page 153 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 29 - We marched them into the woods off the road, and having used them as Regulators were wont to use such delinquents, we set fire to the cabin, gave all the skins and implements to the young Indian warrior, and proceeded, well pleased, towards the settlements.
Page 152 - DEATH OF AN INFANT. Death found strange beauty on that cherub brow, And dashed it out. There was a tint of rose On cheek and lip ; — he touched the veins with ice, And the rose faded. Forth from those blue eyes There spake a wishful tenderness, — a doubt Whether to grieve or sleep, which innocence Alone can wear.