Readings from the best authors, ed. by A.H. Bryce, Issue 9Archibald Hamilton Bryce 1862 |
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... heart and the feelings . For it cannot be expected that those portions of an author which require for their comprehension a laborious and minute explanation on the part of the teacher , and a great exercise of thought on the part of the ...
... heart and the feelings . For it cannot be expected that those portions of an author which require for their comprehension a laborious and minute explanation on the part of the teacher , and a great exercise of thought on the part of the ...
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... Heart ..... VI . The Battle of Alma .... VII . Homeward Bound ...... J'age Prescott . 7 Lord Macaulay . 10 Ibid . 13 Ibid . 15 W. Irving . 17 W. H. Russell . 20 .......... Dickens . 23 SECTION II . - FICTION . I. Fall of Jerusalem ...
... Heart ..... VI . The Battle of Alma .... VII . Homeward Bound ...... J'age Prescott . 7 Lord Macaulay . 10 Ibid . 13 Ibid . 15 W. Irving . 17 W. H. Russell . 20 .......... Dickens . 23 SECTION II . - FICTION . I. Fall of Jerusalem ...
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... heart most sensibly ; and the whole audience , kindled with various emotions by the speaker's eloquence , filled up the perspec- tive with the gorgeous colouring of their own fancies , as ambition , or avarice , or devotional feeling ...
... heart most sensibly ; and the whole audience , kindled with various emotions by the speaker's eloquence , filled up the perspec- tive with the gorgeous colouring of their own fancies , as ambition , or avarice , or devotional feeling ...
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... heart- broken congregation had separated , when the sentinels on the tower saw the sails of three vessels coming up the Foyle . Soon there was a stir in the Irish camp . The besiegers were on the alert for miles along both shores . The ...
... heart- broken congregation had separated , when the sentinels on the tower saw the sails of three vessels coming up the Foyle . Soon there was a stir in the Irish camp . The besiegers were on the alert for miles along both shores . The ...
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... hearts of the besieged died within them . One who endured the unutterable anguish of that moment has told us that they looked fearfully livid in each other's eyes . Even after the barricade had been passed , there was a ter- rible half ...
... hearts of the besieged died within them . One who endured the unutterable anguish of that moment has told us that they looked fearfully livid in each other's eyes . Even after the barricade had been passed , there was a ter- rible half ...
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