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... young eyes may - but for half the world they are gone out of the world , and gone for ever . No more young trees can be planted in England this year . That must be plain . They were all wanted for London last week , and the nurseries ...
... young eyes may - but for half the world they are gone out of the world , and gone for ever . No more young trees can be planted in England this year . That must be plain . They were all wanted for London last week , and the nurseries ...
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... young lady , and the poetical young lady , and the plain speaking younger lady , who describes the way in which her sister's frocks are facetiously said to be made down to fit her somewhat larger proportions - to the confusion of her ...
... young lady , and the poetical young lady , and the plain speaking younger lady , who describes the way in which her sister's frocks are facetiously said to be made down to fit her somewhat larger proportions - to the confusion of her ...
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... young love lie bleed- ing . Let grief be love's Nemesis on pride ! So we parted ; so in this room to - night , do I now in imagination , renew that parting - not in anger , but with hot tears glistening in my eyes . There , on my hearth ...
... young love lie bleed- ing . Let grief be love's Nemesis on pride ! So we parted ; so in this room to - night , do I now in imagination , renew that parting - not in anger , but with hot tears glistening in my eyes . There , on my hearth ...
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... young man , often took tea with Mrs. More and any of her young friends in that little back parlour , which looked by a bow window to the north - west , and was comfortable in summer time , when the sun was going down . chanced that he ...
... young man , often took tea with Mrs. More and any of her young friends in that little back parlour , which looked by a bow window to the north - west , and was comfortable in summer time , when the sun was going down . chanced that he ...
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... young lady , turning into the twenties , to pay for classes , and food , and lodging , to a young man of nearly the same age , or a little more , although he was very discreet . So many institutions and reforms in Kirkhowe caused the ...
... young lady , turning into the twenties , to pay for classes , and food , and lodging , to a young man of nearly the same age , or a little more , although he was very discreet . So many institutions and reforms in Kirkhowe caused the ...
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Page 99 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 141 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 335 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps...
Page 99 - And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 459 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Page 273 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Page 207 - The Karens are a meek, peaceful race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues, and few flagrant vices. Though greatly addicted to drunkenness, extremely filthy and indolent in their habits, their morals, in other respects, are superior to many more civilized races.
Page 427 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...
Page 20 - It is the same ! — for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free ; Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow ; Nought may endure but Mutability.