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... respects so dissimilar , should be bound in such strong ties of friendship ; but it was founded upon virtue : they both felt and acted according to her dictates . Cleveland , though mild and affectionate , was the sternest of the two ...
... respects so dissimilar , should be bound in such strong ties of friendship ; but it was founded upon virtue : they both felt and acted according to her dictates . Cleveland , though mild and affectionate , was the sternest of the two ...
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... respect . After an honourable discharge of the duties he had imposed on himself , as a representative of the people , he returned to those who had entrusted their lives , their fortunes , and their honour to his keeping , to know if in ...
... respect . After an honourable discharge of the duties he had imposed on himself , as a representative of the people , he returned to those who had entrusted their lives , their fortunes , and their honour to his keeping , to know if in ...
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... has a claim to his respect , not love , from her relationship to his friend : but the party breaks up , and I have only to add , my penetration is not great , but a certain lovely daughter of 14 CLEVELAND ; OR , THE MAN OF PRinciple .
... has a claim to his respect , not love , from her relationship to his friend : but the party breaks up , and I have only to add , my penetration is not great , but a certain lovely daughter of 14 CLEVELAND ; OR , THE MAN OF PRinciple .
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... respect from those whom he considers the best pledges of fair fame and honour . " In a very short time this tête - à - tête was put a stop to , by a servant announcing to the gentleman that his carriage was at the door . He then took ...
... respect from those whom he considers the best pledges of fair fame and honour . " In a very short time this tête - à - tête was put a stop to , by a servant announcing to the gentleman that his carriage was at the door . He then took ...
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... respect paid to the corpse . Besides this , perhaps as a counterpoise to the hyperbolical mirth , or else according merely with old customs , those who can bear the expense , procure one , two , three , or more keeners— keentheciauners ...
... respect paid to the corpse . Besides this , perhaps as a counterpoise to the hyperbolical mirth , or else according merely with old customs , those who can bear the expense , procure one , two , three , or more keeners— keentheciauners ...
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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...