Tales and Sketches: Such as They are, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1834 - American fiction |
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... moment among the shelving crags , and tumbling fragments of that eminence , and also with the light canoe that skimmed the bright surface of the Quannipaug in the night - time , amidst the lights and shadows of tree - tops and dancing ...
... moment among the shelving crags , and tumbling fragments of that eminence , and also with the light canoe that skimmed the bright surface of the Quannipaug in the night - time , amidst the lights and shadows of tree - tops and dancing ...
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... moment the Deacon took the Bible into his own hands , all the letters disappeared , and it became as blank paper . The case of a lad , a nephew of the deacon's , is too important to be omitted . He had ventured very near to the old ...
... moment the Deacon took the Bible into his own hands , all the letters disappeared , and it became as blank paper . The case of a lad , a nephew of the deacon's , is too important to be omitted . He had ventured very near to the old ...
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... moment — with whom , had the Lord so disposed my lot , I had hoped to have travelled this thorny wilderness , as though it had been strewn with flowers - grieve not for me , but look upward and praise Him who decrees all things for the ...
... moment — with whom , had the Lord so disposed my lot , I had hoped to have travelled this thorny wilderness , as though it had been strewn with flowers - grieve not for me , but look upward and praise Him who decrees all things for the ...
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... moment , she again looked about with great earnestness . It was evident her heart was struggling with emotions too powerful longer to be disguised . Her feelings gained the mastery , and the words passionately escaped— “ Where where is ...
... moment , she again looked about with great earnestness . It was evident her heart was struggling with emotions too powerful longer to be disguised . Her feelings gained the mastery , and the words passionately escaped— “ Where where is ...
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... moment , look to see The blind and bloody soldier . - Ibid . THE executioner now approached with the fatal brand . Mercy , with closed though upraised eyes , was breathing forth a last prayer in the ear of Him who heareth the stillest ...
... moment , look to see The blind and bloody soldier . - Ibid . THE executioner now approached with the fatal brand . Mercy , with closed though upraised eyes , was breathing forth a last prayer in the ear of Him who heareth the stillest ...
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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...