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... heart with all the volume of a volcano . Manhood came , and I burst my shackles . I resolved upon the enjoyment for which I had dreamed and prayed . I had no fears , for I was stout of limb , bold of heart , prompt in the use of my ...
... heart with all the volume of a volcano . Manhood came , and I burst my shackles . I resolved upon the enjoyment for which I had dreamed and prayed . I had no fears , for I was stout of limb , bold of heart , prompt in the use of my ...
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... want in my mind , and an impatience at my heart ; a thirst which I can not ex- plain to you , and which , while here , I can not quench . I must go elsewhere- I must fix my eyes on other objects A TRUANT DISPOSITION . 17.
... want in my mind , and an impatience at my heart ; a thirst which I can not ex- plain to you , and which , while here , I can not quench . I must go elsewhere- I must fix my eyes on other objects A TRUANT DISPOSITION . 17.
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... heart ; and that the boon has been given to another , for which I had struggled long , and for a long season had hoped to attain . Can you wonder that I should seek to go abroad , even were I not moved by a natural desire at my time of ...
... heart ; and that the boon has been given to another , for which I had struggled long , and for a long season had hoped to attain . Can you wonder that I should seek to go abroad , even were I not moved by a natural desire at my time of ...
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... heart took pleasure amongst women ; One in the whole creation ; and in her You dared to be my rival . " - Second Maiden's Tragedy . THE reader has discovered my secret . I had long loved Mary Easterby , and without knowing it . The ...
... heart took pleasure amongst women ; One in the whole creation ; and in her You dared to be my rival . " - Second Maiden's Tragedy . THE reader has discovered my secret . I had long loved Mary Easterby , and without knowing it . The ...
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... heart felt , ere my mind . could analyze them . A boy's heart , particularly one who is the unsophisticated occupant of the forests , having few other teachers , is no sluggish and selfish creation , and mine was soon filled with Mary ...
... heart felt , ere my mind . could analyze them . A boy's heart , particularly one who is the unsophisticated occupant of the forests , having few other teachers , is no sluggish and selfish creation , and mine was soon filled with Mary ...
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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...