Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... " unhonour'd and unsung , " into the common place of repose " where bailiffs cease from troubling , and debtors are at rest . " - Such like blue - devilish reflections have ofttimes forced themselves 12 STREETS OF LONDON .
... " unhonour'd and unsung , " into the common place of repose " where bailiffs cease from troubling , and debtors are at rest . " - Such like blue - devilish reflections have ofttimes forced themselves 12 STREETS OF LONDON .
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... rest morality , I feel it my bounden duty to give it without alteration or addition to the public . The catastrophe is singularly impressive and strikingly applicable to the present high - pressure times . Though I cannot say that I ...
... rest morality , I feel it my bounden duty to give it without alteration or addition to the public . The catastrophe is singularly impressive and strikingly applicable to the present high - pressure times . Though I cannot say that I ...
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... if he thought he was shortly bound for another world , and I myself was partly of the same opinion ; be that as it might , he still evinced a laudable inte- rest in the pecuniary concerns of this , for notwith- 44 THE MAN OF THE.
... if he thought he was shortly bound for another world , and I myself was partly of the same opinion ; be that as it might , he still evinced a laudable inte- rest in the pecuniary concerns of this , for notwith- 44 THE MAN OF THE.
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William Cox Theodore Sedgwick Fay. rest in the pecuniary concerns of this , for notwith- standing the larboard chain of the boat had been unloosed , and they were preparing to do the same with the starboard , he presented the man of the ...
William Cox Theodore Sedgwick Fay. rest in the pecuniary concerns of this , for notwith- standing the larboard chain of the boat had been unloosed , and they were preparing to do the same with the starboard , he presented the man of the ...
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... rest of the day , but inducing other unsuspicious victims to follow his scandalous example . There is more truth than poetry in this plain statement of the case , which will be found correct nine times out of ten , even in the most ...
... rest of the day , but inducing other unsuspicious victims to follow his scandalous example . There is more truth than poetry in this plain statement of the case , which will be found correct nine times out of ten , even in the most ...
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Page 223 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 25 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes
Page 178 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Page 106 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 230 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 231 - The Summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Loch Katrine blue ; Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kissed the lake, just stirred the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy...
Page 221 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Page 17 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 68 - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
Page 129 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.