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... appeared in that elab- orate picture of the Hhareem exhibited two years ago , which astonished every one by its wondrous presentment of local , national , and individual truth of character , by its mixed ease and severity of drawing ...
... appeared in that elab- orate picture of the Hhareem exhibited two years ago , which astonished every one by its wondrous presentment of local , national , and individual truth of character , by its mixed ease and severity of drawing ...
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... appeared , Mysterious forests moved unto the wind , As sway to unseen powers thy waves , And dismal as thy secret caves Were labyrinths under arching boughs entwined ; Ay , all created things were great as " good , " And yet , on all ...
... appeared , Mysterious forests moved unto the wind , As sway to unseen powers thy waves , And dismal as thy secret caves Were labyrinths under arching boughs entwined ; Ay , all created things were great as " good , " And yet , on all ...
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... appeared so small as to be almost imperceptible . Even on this larger scale , the highest mountain ranges appear at a very small elevation above the general surface , giving the spectator the most perfect realization of a fact hitherto ...
... appeared so small as to be almost imperceptible . Even on this larger scale , the highest mountain ranges appear at a very small elevation above the general surface , giving the spectator the most perfect realization of a fact hitherto ...
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... appearance of a sparrowhawk in the horizon creates among a flock of wood pigeons or skylarks , when unsuspecting all ... appeared in Hunt's List this year the names of " The New York Yacht Club , " Commodore , Mr. J. C. Stevens , Maria ...
... appearance of a sparrowhawk in the horizon creates among a flock of wood pigeons or skylarks , when unsuspecting all ... appeared in Hunt's List this year the names of " The New York Yacht Club , " Commodore , Mr. J. C. Stevens , Maria ...
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... appeared to fall away under her keel and sides , offering the mini- mum of resistance to her course , owing to the peculiar form of her " entry . " Still , the nauticals looked knowing , and said , " Oh , ay , this is all very well for ...
... appeared to fall away under her keel and sides , offering the mini- mum of resistance to her course , owing to the peculiar form of her " entry . " Still , the nauticals looked knowing , and said , " Oh , ay , this is all very well for ...
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Page 116 - I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant ; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country...
Page 163 - ... and, when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case ; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
Page 184 - Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar with me...
Page 155 - I find I shall conform in time to that state of life to which it has pleased God to call me.
Page 318 - How many times do I love thee, dear? Tell me how many thoughts there be In the atmosphere Of a new-fall'n year, Whose white and sable. hours appear The latest flake of Eternity :— So many times do I love thee, dear. How many times do I love, again...
Page 271 - In his service in the Low Countries he had in the face of both the camps killed an enemy and taken opima spolia from him. And since his coming to England being appealed to the fields he had killed his adversary, which had hurt him in the arm and whose sword was ten inches longer than his, for the which he was imprisoned and almost at the gallows.
Page 149 - I tell him that all the difference between us is that he is nineteen, and I am thirty-seven ; and I dare say it will not be very long before I shall succeed in convincing him that he may be a true philosopher, and do a great deal of good, with 6000?.
Page 163 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly...
Page 163 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in the air he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour,...
Page 149 - I expect he will be a Berkeleyan, for I have put him upon a course of Berkeley. It has surprised him a good deal to meet, for the first time in his life, with a man who perfectly understands him, and does him full justice. I tell him that all the difference between us is that he is nineteen and I am thirty-seven...