Tales and Sketches: Such as They are, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1834 - American fiction |
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... heads of the dying . Pious and sedate people were thrown into trances , and made to prophesy , and speak in strange and no doubt demoniacal language . In some instances they would worm themselves like incomprehensible spirits into the ...
... heads of the dying . Pious and sedate people were thrown into trances , and made to prophesy , and speak in strange and no doubt demoniacal language . In some instances they would worm themselves like incomprehensible spirits into the ...
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... head with an air of deep and troubled thought , and cau- tioned his good subjects not to throw themselves within the charmed circle of Azazel , by approach- ing too near . Meantime , the evidences that evil spirits were abroad , became ...
... head with an air of deep and troubled thought , and cau- tioned his good subjects not to throw themselves within the charmed circle of Azazel , by approach- ing too near . Meantime , the evidences that evil spirits were abroad , became ...
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... head , falling upon his neck and shoulders , If he had any passions , they were entirely subject to his command ; and his whole appearance , to the superficial observer , but for the tell - tale eye , was that of one having a mind at ...
... head , falling upon his neck and shoulders , If he had any passions , they were entirely subject to his command ; and his whole appearance , to the superficial observer , but for the tell - tale eye , was that of one having a mind at ...
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... head like Carmel - and her neck like a tower of ivory , and as a piece of a pomegranate her temples within her locks . It was in vain that he quoted the Scripture to show that marriage is honourable in all . And equally vain were his ...
... head like Carmel - and her neck like a tower of ivory , and as a piece of a pomegranate her temples within her locks . It was in vain that he quoted the Scripture to show that marriage is honourable in all . And equally vain were his ...
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... head with a besom . He next attempted to write a letter to the Rev. Mr. Daven- port , at Quinnipiack , giving some account of the trials to which both himself and people were sub- jected , but his ink - horn was snatched from him by an ...
... head with a besom . He next attempted to write a letter to the Rev. Mr. Daven- port , at Quinnipiack , giving some account of the trials to which both himself and people were sub- jected , but his ink - horn was snatched from him by an ...
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Page 241 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 241 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,— past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 73 - He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of heaven, To serve the devil in...
Page 141 - The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes :— How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! but with the breath which fills...
Page 199 - The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes fell upon them ; some lay down And hid their eyes and wept ; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smiled ; And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their...
Page 31 - Alas! O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us?
Page 141 - The foe! They come! They come! " And wild and high the " Cameron's gathering " rose, The war note of Lochicl, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill!
Page 84 - Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
Page 208 - We now plant a tree, whose top will reach the sun, and its branches spread far abroad, so that it shall be seen afar off; and we shall shelter ourselves under it, and live in peace without molestation.
Page 175 - Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawled And twined themselves among the multitude, Hissing, but stingless — they were slain for food: And war, which for a moment was no more, Did glut himself again — a meal was bought With blood, and each sate sullenly apart, , Gorging himself in gloom : no love...