Cooper's Novels, Volume 19Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... continued to write by the way of amusement , and because we were committed by an advertisement ; but it was with an indifference and carelessness that were somewhat disrespectful to the public , and unjust to ourselves . Were we to ...
... continued to write by the way of amusement , and because we were committed by an advertisement ; but it was with an indifference and carelessness that were somewhat disrespectful to the public , and unjust to ourselves . Were we to ...
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... continued to act for the remainder of the war of the revolution . A large proportion of its inhabi- tants , either restrained by their attachments , or influenced by their fears , affected a neutrality they did not feel . The lower ...
... continued to act for the remainder of the war of the revolution . A large proportion of its inhabi- tants , either restrained by their attachments , or influenced by their fears , affected a neutrality they did not feel . The lower ...
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... continued- " I wish from the bottom of my heart , this un- natural struggle was over , that we might again meet our friends and relatives in peace and love . " " It is much to be desired , " said Harper , em- phatically , again raising ...
... continued- " I wish from the bottom of my heart , this un- natural struggle was over , that we might again meet our friends and relatives in peace and love . " " It is much to be desired , " said Harper , em- phatically , again raising ...
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... continued 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 ...
... continued 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 ...
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... continued , as her own face lighted into one of its animated and lovely smiles of intelligence , " but not at the ex- pense of the rights of my countrymen . ” " Rights , " repeated her sister , impatiently ; THE SPY . 21.
... continued , as her own face lighted into one of its animated and lovely smiles of intelligence , " but not at the ex- pense of the rights of my countrymen . ” " Rights , " repeated her sister , impatiently ; THE SPY . 21.
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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.