Cooper's Novels, Volume 19Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... Harper . " " Mr. Harper , " resumed the other , with the for- mal precision of the day , " I have the honour to drink your health , and hope you will sustain no in- jury from the rain to which you have been expos ed . " Mr. Harper bowed ...
... Harper . " " Mr. Harper , " resumed the other , with the for- mal precision of the day , " I have the honour to drink your health , and hope you will sustain no in- jury from the rain to which you have been expos ed . " Mr. Harper bowed ...
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... Harper was apparently enjoying the change in his situation , when Mr. Wharton again broke it , by inquiring , in the same polite , but formal manner , whether smoke was disagreeable to his companion ; to which he received as polite a ...
... Harper was apparently enjoying the change in his situation , when Mr. Wharton again broke it , by inquiring , in the same polite , but formal manner , whether smoke was disagreeable to his companion ; to which he received as polite a ...
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... Harper , em- phatically , again raising his eyes to the counte- nance of his host . " I hear of no movements of consequence since the arrival of our new allies , " said Mr. Wharton , shaking the ashes from his pipe , and turning his ...
... Harper , em- phatically , again raising his eyes to the counte- nance of his host . " I hear of no movements of consequence since the arrival of our new allies , " said Mr. Wharton , shaking the ashes from his pipe , and turning his ...
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... Harper contracted , and a deep- er shade of melancholy crossed his features ; his eye kindled with a transient beam of fire , that spoke a latent source of deep feeling . The ad- miring gaze of the younger of the sisters had bare- ly ...
... Harper contracted , and a deep- er shade of melancholy crossed his features ; his eye kindled with a transient beam of fire , that spoke a latent source of deep feeling . The ad- miring gaze of the younger of the sisters had bare- ly ...
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... Harper , meeting her look of animation with an open smile of almost paternal softness . 66 Why , Sarah thinks the British are never beat- en ; but I do not put so much faith in their invin- cibility . " The traveller listened to her ...
... Harper , meeting her look of animation with an open smile of almost paternal softness . 66 Why , Sarah thinks the British are never beat- en ; but I do not put so much faith in their invin- cibility . " The traveller listened to her ...
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Page 131 - No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Page 280 - Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood — Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood.
Page 74 - Ah ! then he must have led an evil life indeed," said Hollister ; the blessed in spirit lie quiet until the general muster, but wickedness disturbs the soul in this life as well as in that which is to come.
Page 276 - If not for money, what then ?" " What has brought Your Excellency into the field ? For what do you daily and hourly expose your precious life to battle and the halter? What is there about me to mourn, when such men as you risk...
Page 212 - Turn, gentle hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread With fainting steps and slow ; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem length'ning as I go.
Page 198 - His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Gilpin, neck or nought ; Away went hat and wig ; He little dreamt, when he set out, Of running such a rig.
Page 192 - And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth ? Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters : as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.