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... head . Her expectations had been somewhat checked by the political principles he had avowed during the short session in which he had an opportunity , as a Member of the House of Commons , of asserting those independent notions which a ...
... head . Her expectations had been somewhat checked by the political principles he had avowed during the short session in which he had an opportunity , as a Member of the House of Commons , of asserting those independent notions which a ...
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... head of the adminis- tration , it was in vain for him to hope he could be a welcome friend . He arrived at the St. James's hotel , and encountered his old acquaintance , Sir George Burrell , a young man of fashion , who acquired ...
... head of the adminis- tration , it was in vain for him to hope he could be a welcome friend . He arrived at the St. James's hotel , and encountered his old acquaintance , Sir George Burrell , a young man of fashion , who acquired ...
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... head of the party which was seeking power , by an opposition to the profligate men , who were running a career of folly unrestrained by any feeling which should ani- mate a government . The only amiable character among them was the Earl ...
... head of the party which was seeking power , by an opposition to the profligate men , who were running a career of folly unrestrained by any feeling which should ani- mate a government . The only amiable character among them was the Earl ...
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... head of the administration , has more of the admiration of Delaware than any other fair form , " said Vivian , gazing signi- ficantly at Lady Harriet , who , looking on her beautiful face in the glass , and then sighing , answered him ...
... head of the administration , has more of the admiration of Delaware than any other fair form , " said Vivian , gazing signi- ficantly at Lady Harriet , who , looking on her beautiful face in the glass , and then sighing , answered him ...
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... head ; the other , sprinkled with salt , over the feet . On the smaller table some dozen and a half brass candlesticks furnished with penny dips and disposed in regular file , filled the room with an accept- able light ; and their ...
... head ; the other , sprinkled with salt , over the feet . On the smaller table some dozen and a half brass candlesticks furnished with penny dips and disposed in regular file , filled the room with an accept- able light ; and their ...
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Page 268 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...
Page 287 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Page 337 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Page 268 - Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements!
Page 284 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
Page 129 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 129 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Page 271 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 267 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...