Rural Repository, Volumes 10-11W. B. Stoddard, 1834 |
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... smiling face Review each lone sequestered place , Where once in boyhood's happier day I loved to rove and sport and ... smile , - The silent moulding of a heart - born tear ; I love an eye , whose light is eloquence , Not heard , but ...
... smiling face Review each lone sequestered place , Where once in boyhood's happier day I loved to rove and sport and ... smile , - The silent moulding of a heart - born tear ; I love an eye , whose light is eloquence , Not heard , but ...
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... smile is so pleasant ! Never shall myriads of events in our lives , the distance he find again , in this wild wilderness , such between which was much greater than that between this wheel and the ribin , but where the connexion has been ...
... smile is so pleasant ! Never shall myriads of events in our lives , the distance he find again , in this wild wilderness , such between which was much greater than that between this wheel and the ribin , but where the connexion has been ...
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... smile , And one that bears her name . And one will prattle on his knee , Or slumber on his breast , And one whose joys of infancy , Are still by smiles expressed . They feel no fear while he is near ; He'll shield them from the foe ...
... smile , And one that bears her name . And one will prattle on his knee , Or slumber on his breast , And one whose joys of infancy , Are still by smiles expressed . They feel no fear while he is near ; He'll shield them from the foe ...
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... smile dimpling his fine countenance , and claimed , as he saw her suddenly grow pale and you are Lucy Belden , the same dancing little use her smelling bottle . Lucy that so adroitly managed the release of my father . And will my own ...
... smile dimpling his fine countenance , and claimed , as he saw her suddenly grow pale and you are Lucy Belden , the same dancing little use her smelling bottle . Lucy that so adroitly managed the release of my father . And will my own ...
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... smiles- To slander then , to flatter now- A falsehood base , an humble bow ; Like toad that's perched on stump or trec ... smile and rapt'rous weep . This floweret fair will deck thy barque , Tho ' boist'rous waves are raging high , And ...
... smiles- To slander then , to flatter now- A falsehood base , an humble bow ; Like toad that's perched on stump or trec ... smile and rapt'rous weep . This floweret fair will deck thy barque , Tho ' boist'rous waves are raging high , And ...
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Page 47 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
Page 158 - Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn, And, as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance.
Page 3 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 3 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation ; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces ; and her time is near to come ; and her days shall...
Page 14 - But who are those who make the streets their couch, and find a short repose from wretchedness at the doors of the opulent ? These are strangers, wanderers, and orphans, whose circumstances are too humble to expect redress, and whose distresses are too great even for pity.
Page 31 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Page 14 - What a gloom hangs all around ! the dying lamp feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All the bustle of human • pride is forgotten, an hour like this may well display the emptiness of human vanity.
Page 31 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side...
Page 158 - And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea...
Page 158 - Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And...