Prose,Abraham Small. William Brown, printer, 1824 |
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Page 24
... imagination more dangerous) than the low country which we had been so long traversing, was, that there were hills, and dales, and rocks, and trees upon it ; besides many scattered t cottages, which, as the shadows deepened, ever and ...
... imagination more dangerous) than the low country which we had been so long traversing, was, that there were hills, and dales, and rocks, and trees upon it ; besides many scattered t cottages, which, as the shadows deepened, ever and ...
Page 27
... imagination,) all my prospect of comfort while I remained at Scarborough appeared to depend, as if I were a snail that could live under only one roof. I knocked ; — a servant-maid came headlong and breathless down stairs to the door ...
... imagination,) all my prospect of comfort while I remained at Scarborough appeared to depend, as if I were a snail that could live under only one roof. I knocked ; — a servant-maid came headlong and breathless down stairs to the door ...
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... imagination as he has so far done. He is like an eagle, building his nest in my ignoble head, and hatching his royal brood of ideas there : I am already about the middle of the second volume, — half-way through the work, — but I presume ...
... imagination as he has so far done. He is like an eagle, building his nest in my ignoble head, and hatching his royal brood of ideas there : I am already about the middle of the second volume, — half-way through the work, — but I presume ...
Page 33
... imagination, I ought to say, for in reality it was moreakin to the owl's than the nightingale's; and if I had Milton in my hand, instead of my forgetful head, I could adorn this page with some mellifluous lines about tones and cadences ...
... imagination, I ought to say, for in reality it was moreakin to the owl's than the nightingale's; and if I had Milton in my hand, instead of my forgetful head, I could adorn this page with some mellifluous lines about tones and cadences ...
Page 46
... imagination, and on this paper to rehearse, the adventures of the night, had I been forced to pass it in the open air, in a region as unknown to me as the back-woods of America ! No such romantic luck was mine. I paced along in ...
... imagination, and on this paper to rehearse, the adventures of the night, had I been forced to pass it in the open air, in a region as unknown to me as the back-woods of America ! No such romantic luck was mine. I paced along in ...
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