Prose,Abraham Small. William Brown, printer, 1824 |
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Page 47
... wilderness, my watch, no doubt, will satisfy them !" My head was full of gipsies, smugglers, and banditti, from the recent perusal of Guy Mannering and the Heart of Mid Lothian, when, as I came to a rude plantation on the western ...
... wilderness, my watch, no doubt, will satisfy them !" My head was full of gipsies, smugglers, and banditti, from the recent perusal of Guy Mannering and the Heart of Mid Lothian, when, as I came to a rude plantation on the western ...
Page 51
... wilderness, inhabited by monsters more ravenous than lions, hyenas, and leopards, in shapes as horrible " As ever fables feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire ;— " (MlLTOH.) The philosopher and the multitude ...
... wilderness, inhabited by monsters more ravenous than lions, hyenas, and leopards, in shapes as horrible " As ever fables feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire ;— " (MlLTOH.) The philosopher and the multitude ...
Page 91
... wilderness ; it drank his tears that flowed in torrents, and yet it remained as dry as before. Confounded and disconsolate, he returned to the bosom of his family ; they were all in like tribulation, dismayed, bewildered, lost ; they ...
... wilderness ; it drank his tears that flowed in torrents, and yet it remained as dry as before. Confounded and disconsolate, he returned to the bosom of his family ; they were all in like tribulation, dismayed, bewildered, lost ; they ...
Page 100
... wilderness of haze, through which he daily journeyed ; the moon, through all her phases, was turned into blood ; the constellations, blasted and wan, looked sickly from their spheres, while the stars were so intermingled with meteors ...
... wilderness of haze, through which he daily journeyed ; the moon, through all her phases, was turned into blood ; the constellations, blasted and wan, looked sickly from their spheres, while the stars were so intermingled with meteors ...
Page 164
... wilderness of fern and furze. In this snug hermitage, I perceived a chatter-box of a goldfinch, who was feasting himself deliciously on the fruit of the thistle, and hopping nimbly about, from perch to perch of his wire-wattled pen ...
... wilderness of fern and furze. In this snug hermitage, I perceived a chatter-box of a goldfinch, who was feasting himself deliciously on the fruit of the thistle, and hopping nimbly about, from perch to perch of his wire-wattled pen ...
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