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and if he concluded that by procuring Anne's dismissal from the court , he was removing the person whose influence he had most to fear , it was an instance of that short - sightedness which is often displayed in apparently trivial ...
and if he concluded that by procuring Anne's dismissal from the court , he was removing the person whose influence he had most to fear , it was an instance of that short - sightedness which is often displayed in apparently trivial ...
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... court of Severus , he was soon after seized with the plague , which terminated his life , in the thirtieth year of his age . The citizens of his native city were deeply afflicted by this bereavement , and erected a statue to his memory ...
... court of Severus , he was soon after seized with the plague , which terminated his life , in the thirtieth year of his age . The citizens of his native city were deeply afflicted by this bereavement , and erected a statue to his memory ...
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... court of appeal for us in all that pertains to religious belief and duty . It would almost seem to them who watch the signs of the age , as if the spirit , which filled the old Tridentine conclave , were again risen to lord it over the ...
... court of appeal for us in all that pertains to religious belief and duty . It would almost seem to them who watch the signs of the age , as if the spirit , which filled the old Tridentine conclave , were again risen to lord it over the ...
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... courts of justice , and which with foresight and moderation might have been avoided . First and foremost is the memorable Talbot case , and its damaging revelations and sequences . Nothing , within our recollection , has been more ...
... courts of justice , and which with foresight and moderation might have been avoided . First and foremost is the memorable Talbot case , and its damaging revelations and sequences . Nothing , within our recollection , has been more ...
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... court of law ; whether it be that it apprehends unplea- sant disclosures , or that it does not like to run the risk of losing all , we cannot say , but such is the fact ; there is no single instance on record of a similar contest not ...
... court of law ; whether it be that it apprehends unplea- sant disclosures , or that it does not like to run the risk of losing all , we cannot say , but such is the fact ; there is no single instance on record of a similar contest not ...
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Page 294 - But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee — With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 293 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 293 - But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing farther then he uttered, not a feather then he fluttered; Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before; On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Page 294 - It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 289 - Then think I of deep shadows on the grass, Of meadows where in sun the cattle graze, Where, as the breezes pass, The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways, Of leaves that slumber in a cloudy mass, Or whiten in the wind, of waters blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap, and of a sky above, Where one white cloud like a stray lamb doth move.
Page 299 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Page 473 - And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe...
Page 289 - DANDELION DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May...
Page 294 - Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast! For, alas! alas! with me The light of Life is o'er! "No more — no more — no more...
Page 478 - The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect ; part of it is decaying, part nascent. The foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom, — is a type of the life of this world.