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... called ' nigger duck . ' The broad winged ' blue heron ' is an unmistakeable object , whether standing or flying , and his commanding stature and solemn bearing would recommend him as an overseer of the entire feathered family of this ...
... called ' nigger duck . ' The broad winged ' blue heron ' is an unmistakeable object , whether standing or flying , and his commanding stature and solemn bearing would recommend him as an overseer of the entire feathered family of this ...
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... called by PROVIDENCE to ascend the throne of his illustrious ancestors ; yet he possessed a very manly figure , and his muscular energy was so great , that he could bend an iron crow - bar by the mere strength of his hands ; while his ...
... called by PROVIDENCE to ascend the throne of his illustrious ancestors ; yet he possessed a very manly figure , and his muscular energy was so great , that he could bend an iron crow - bar by the mere strength of his hands ; while his ...
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... called ganders , to be taught to their children , and so the young ideas of Dresden were left to the guidance of nature . They attempted a conference - meeting once , but Deacon , the only person present who had a distinct recollection ...
... called ganders , to be taught to their children , and so the young ideas of Dresden were left to the guidance of nature . They attempted a conference - meeting once , but Deacon , the only person present who had a distinct recollection ...
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... called a grand piece of blank - verse , and so it is . Dr. Johnson did not hesitate to applaud it in parts , and he was one of those hedge - hog critics who are the last to confer merit on authors . In The Mourning Bride ' are many of ...
... called a grand piece of blank - verse , and so it is . Dr. Johnson did not hesitate to applaud it in parts , and he was one of those hedge - hog critics who are the last to confer merit on authors . In The Mourning Bride ' are many of ...
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... called the dyspepsia , which is a patent method of starving men to death by a slow but sure process . The dyspepsia is first cousin to the ' hypo , ' and connected to the hystericks ' by marriage . Women were probably intended to do all ...
... called the dyspepsia , which is a patent method of starving men to death by a slow but sure process . The dyspepsia is first cousin to the ' hypo , ' and connected to the hystericks ' by marriage . Women were probably intended to do all ...
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Page 56 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 55 - Build me straight, O worthy Master, Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!
Page 321 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Logician, Metaphysician, Bard ! How have I seen the casual passer through the cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration, (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula,) to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of...
Page 287 - Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to thy cross I cling ; Naked, come to Thee for dress ; Helpless, look to Thee for grace ; Foul, I to the fountain fly — Wash me, Saviour, or I die...
Page 56 - 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 152 - ... cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down. The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
Page 45 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Page 169 - Whence are thy beams, O sun ! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone; who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven. But thou art forever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course.
Page 325 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 154 - And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple, to haunt the senate or the market. Literature becomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth is not lighted by the hope of other worlds, and age is without honor. Society lives to trifles, and when men die we do not mention them.