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Page 9
... thought , I stood Where the vast Present spann'd Time's silent flood ; And an old , wan , pale spirit by my side , Ever lamenting , smote his forehead sear , Crying aloud , above the fleeting tide , " I am the passing - I am the passing ...
... thought , I stood Where the vast Present spann'd Time's silent flood ; And an old , wan , pale spirit by my side , Ever lamenting , smote his forehead sear , Crying aloud , above the fleeting tide , " I am the passing - I am the passing ...
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... thought them the best ladder for himself . Robespierre loved the people , was a fanatic , a Luther in his belief in the truth of his principles , and sanctioned crimes from the rigid logic of his mind , which placed before it an end to ...
... thought them the best ladder for himself . Robespierre loved the people , was a fanatic , a Luther in his belief in the truth of his principles , and sanctioned crimes from the rigid logic of his mind , which placed before it an end to ...
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... thought's calm sky ; There are the lips whose tranquil flow Diffused tranquillity . XIII . Entranced thus , long years shall seem Like swiftly circling hours , Rolling me in a chariot dream A DIRGE . HERE let never wild winds rave ...
... thought's calm sky ; There are the lips whose tranquil flow Diffused tranquillity . XIII . Entranced thus , long years shall seem Like swiftly circling hours , Rolling me in a chariot dream A DIRGE . HERE let never wild winds rave ...
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... thought it curious that , whilst I never forgot any scrap of knowledge collected , however small , yet the common events of daily life slip from my memory so quickly that I can scarcely find anything again which I have once laid aside ...
... thought it curious that , whilst I never forgot any scrap of knowledge collected , however small , yet the common events of daily life slip from my memory so quickly that I can scarcely find anything again which I have once laid aside ...
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... thought and intellect . To speak frankly , Mons . Guizot's mental powers have fallen into the sere and yellow leaf ; not that they have so much declined , as that they show the tendency to de- cline by becoming fixed and rigid . No new ...
... thought and intellect . To speak frankly , Mons . Guizot's mental powers have fallen into the sere and yellow leaf ; not that they have so much declined , as that they show the tendency to de- cline by becoming fixed and rigid . No new ...
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