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... never had a few minutes chat together . And now , tell me what sort of a world this is , that you have been managing these twelve months ? " The Old Year shook his palsied , venerable head , but spoke not . " Come , dear old dad , don't ...
... never had a few minutes chat together . And now , tell me what sort of a world this is , that you have been managing these twelve months ? " The Old Year shook his palsied , venerable head , but spoke not . " Come , dear old dad , don't ...
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... never were alive ; and they ain't alive , because they never were born - I was an only child . " " Ah ! I understand ; well , you are another next of kin in the fourth de- gree . " " I'm a cousin - german of old Abra- ham , " said a ...
... never were alive ; and they ain't alive , because they never were born - I was an only child . " " Ah ! I understand ; well , you are another next of kin in the fourth de- gree . " " I'm a cousin - german of old Abra- ham , " said a ...
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... never shall fetch Flint Pier under half - a - dozen tacks ; but if the night holds on clear , and we have the lights ... Never , sir , " said the skipper , in his deep and melancholy voice ; “ I never was on the Dee in such a wild blast ...
... never shall fetch Flint Pier under half - a - dozen tacks ; but if the night holds on clear , and we have the lights ... Never , sir , " said the skipper , in his deep and melancholy voice ; “ I never was on the Dee in such a wild blast ...
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... never left the Park- gate pier at all , inasmuch as Mat- ty Davis , Susy Davis , Ally Davis , Debby Davis , Winny Price , Etty Jones , Jane Williams , and Eliza Ed- wards all eight ancient and regular mercantile characters in the cock ...
... never left the Park- gate pier at all , inasmuch as Mat- ty Davis , Susy Davis , Ally Davis , Debby Davis , Winny Price , Etty Jones , Jane Williams , and Eliza Ed- wards all eight ancient and regular mercantile characters in the cock ...
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... never have gone so far as to propose it seriously to Cromwell , who at first seemed to think it not impracti- cable . Cromwell soon gave up the idea , however , and said , " Charles can ne- ver forgive me the death of his father ...
... never have gone so far as to propose it seriously to Cromwell , who at first seemed to think it not impracti- cable . Cromwell soon gave up the idea , however , and said , " Charles can ne- ver forgive me the death of his father ...
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Page 473 - The scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Page 467 - Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 572 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 296 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 97 - ... there is no border-land with him. You cannot hover with him upon the confines of truth, or wander in the maze of a probable argument. He always keeps the path. You cannot make excursions with him, for he sets you right. His taste never fluctuates. His morality never abates. He cannot compromise, or understand middle actions. There can be but a right and a wrong. His conversation is as a book. His affirmations have the sanctity of an oath. You must speak upon the square with him. He stops a metaphor...
Page 371 - But above all let us not be influenced by any angry feelings so far as to shut our eyes to the perception of what is really excellent and amiable in the English character. We are a young people, necessarily an imitative one, and must take our examples and models in a great degree from the existing nations of Europe. There is no country more worthy of our study than England.
Page 196 - A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again: The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
Page 319 - Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Page 97 - I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. They cannot like me — and in truth, I never knew one of that nation who attempted to do it.
Page 553 - ... to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...