The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, EsqB. Tauchnitz, 1843 - 361 pages |
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... charms of nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains , with their bright aërial tints ; her valleys , teeming with wild fertility ; her tremendous cataracts , thundering in ...
... charms of nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains , with their bright aërial tints ; her valleys , teeming with wild fertility ; her tremendous cataracts , thundering in ...
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... charms , which in other countries she lavishes in wild solitudes , are here assembled round the haunts of domestic life . They seem to have caught her coy and furtive graces , and spread them , like witchery , about their rural abodes ...
... charms , which in other countries she lavishes in wild solitudes , are here assembled round the haunts of domestic life . They seem to have caught her coy and furtive graces , and spread them , like witchery , about their rural abodes ...
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... charms ; but the British poets have lived and revelled with her , -they have wooed her in her most secret haunts , they ... charm , however , of English scenery is the moral feeling that seems to pervade it . It is associated in the mind ...
... charms ; but the British poets have lived and revelled with her , -they have wooed her in her most secret haunts , they ... charm , however , of English scenery is the moral feeling that seems to pervade it . It is associated in the mind ...
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... charm of existence is at an end . She neglects all the cheerful exercises which gladden the spirits , quicken the pulses , and send the tide of life in healthful currents through the veins . Her rest is broken - the sweet refreshment of ...
... charm of existence is at an end . She neglects all the cheerful exercises which gladden the spirits , quicken the pulses , and send the tide of life in healthful currents through the veins . Her rest is broken - the sweet refreshment of ...
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... charm he never so wisely . " The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade . There can be no exhibition of far - gone wretched- ness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene . To find it wandering like a ...
... charm he never so wisely . " The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade . There can be no exhibition of far - gone wretched- ness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene . To find it wandering like a ...
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