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... fortunate season . I waited for the coming October only . I felt that my pa- rents had now no claims upon me . The customs of our society , the necessities of our modes of life , the excursive and adventur- ous habits of our people ...
... fortunate season . I waited for the coming October only . I felt that my pa- rents had now no claims upon me . The customs of our society , the necessities of our modes of life , the excursive and adventur- ous habits of our people ...
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... fortunate brother- - brother though he was — in the first moment of my rage at this discov- ery ; and all my love for Mary did not save her from sundry unmanly denunciations which I will not now venture to repeat . I did not utter these ...
... fortunate brother- - brother though he was — in the first moment of my rage at this discov- ery ; and all my love for Mary did not save her from sundry unmanly denunciations which I will not now venture to repeat . I did not utter these ...
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... fortunate or not ; and in this particular of fortune he differed from me as widely as in his moneyed concerns . His property consisted in negroes and ready money . He had forty of the former , and some three thousand dollars , part in ...
... fortunate or not ; and in this particular of fortune he differed from me as widely as in his moneyed concerns . His property consisted in negroes and ready money . He had forty of the former , and some three thousand dollars , part in ...
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... fortunate brother . The parting from my mother was a different matter , as , knowing well the love which she bore me , I was already prepared for her sorrow , if not agony , when bidding me farewell . Besides , resolving in my secret ...
... fortunate brother . The parting from my mother was a different matter , as , knowing well the love which she bore me , I was already prepared for her sorrow , if not agony , when bidding me farewell . Besides , resolving in my secret ...
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... fortunate man , that John Hurdis - doubly fortunate , Mary . He has the wealth which men toil for , and fight for , and lie for , and sell themselves to the foul fiend for in a thousand ways : he has the favor of women ; a greater ...
... fortunate man , that John Hurdis - doubly fortunate , Mary . He has the wealth which men toil for , and fight for , and lie for , and sell themselves to the foul fiend for in a thousand ways : he has the favor of women ; a greater ...
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Page 162 - How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 102 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 350 - He's a bad surgeon that for pity spares The part corrupted till the gangrene spread, And all the body perish. He that's merciful Unto the bad is cruel to the good.
Page 156 - O'er all his heart shall Taste and Beauty sway ! Free on the sunny slope, or winding shore, With hermit steps to wander and adore!
Page 11 - Hurdis] during my early wanderings in that then wild country. The crimes here recorded were then actually in progress of commission; and some of my scenes and several of my persons, were sketched from the best local authorities.
Page 248 - Dare not adventure on the stubborne pray, Ne byte before, but rome from place to place To get a snatch when turned is his face.
Page 120 - ... the six mounted men; and, in spite of the strenuous efforts to shake him off, stuck on like the old man of the sea on the shoulders of Sinbad the sailor. Of those who seemed likely to succeed a majority wore only shirt and trowsers; though some of these had a scarlet band tied round the right wrist, for what purpose we cannot say. It also appears that the commissioners opened two sets of books, one for themselves and one for the public.
Page 369 - To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves ! Enter MYRRHA.
Page 6 - Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, BY JS REDFIELD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York.
Page 65 - That glowed in generous blood, and had no care, And little thought of the future — followed him; — Some perch'd on gallant steeds, others, more slow, The infants and the matrons of the flock, In coach and jersey, — but all moving on To the new land of promise, full of dreams Of western riches, Mississippi-mad ! Then came the hands, some forty-five or more, Their moderate wealth...