The watchmanUniversity of Virginia Library, 1816 |
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... leave blessings where it goes , in proportion to the strength of that conviction . Fiction is a powerful vehicle for good and for evil . The world will read fiction : then it is surely the author's province to endeavour , while ...
... leave blessings where it goes , in proportion to the strength of that conviction . Fiction is a powerful vehicle for good and for evil . The world will read fiction : then it is surely the author's province to endeavour , while ...
Page 9
... leaves from the trees and swept them in ridges across the streets , and overhead the sky appeared like a dull , leaden canopy , beneath which the scud was driving furiously before the wind . It was the beginning of one of those ...
... leaves from the trees and swept them in ridges across the streets , and overhead the sky appeared like a dull , leaden canopy , beneath which the scud was driving furiously before the wind . It was the beginning of one of those ...
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... leave my beat to bring him home ; besides , I knew that you would all be in bed and asleep : so I led him to a public - house in Cedar - street , and gave him something to eat , and gave the landlord a trifle to give him a bed , and ...
... leave my beat to bring him home ; besides , I knew that you would all be in bed and asleep : so I led him to a public - house in Cedar - street , and gave him something to eat , and gave the landlord a trifle to give him a bed , and ...
Page 17
... leave the old woman you say you used to live with ? " Again the child was silent , until the question having been twice repeated , he looked up in Carter's face , and said- 66 If I tell you why , you wont take me back again to her ...
... leave the old woman you say you used to live with ? " Again the child was silent , until the question having been twice repeated , he looked up in Carter's face , and said- 66 If I tell you why , you wont take me back again to her ...
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... leave the poor thing here awhile , until I think what can be done . " It was with the greatest reluctance that the landlord and landlady of the tavern would allow the child to remain any longer ; but Joseph at last prevailed upon them ...
... leave the poor thing here awhile , until I think what can be done . " It was with the greatest reluctance that the landlord and landlady of the tavern would allow the child to remain any longer ; but Joseph at last prevailed upon them ...
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Page 9 - Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a" that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A Man's a Man for a
Page 154 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 98 - Like a bird that seeketh its mother's nest; And a mother she was, and is, to me; For I was born on the open sea! The waves were white, and red the morn...
Page 138 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love . Where friendship...
Page 68 - A LIFE on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!
Page 76 - Let others fear, to me more dear Than all the pride of May : The tempest's howl, it soothes my soul, My griefs it seems to join ; The leafless trees my fancy please, Their fate resembles mine ! Thou Power Supreme whose mighty scheme These woes of mine fulfil, Here, firm I rest ; they must be best.
Page 174 - Which has so many rare and curious pieces Of mathematical motion , to stand still. Virtue is ever sowing of her seeds : In the trenches for the soldier; in the wakeful study For the scholar; in the furrows of the sea For men of our profession : of all which...
Page 250 - I'll mourn A faithless woman's broken vow. DESPONDENCY. OPPRESS'D with grief, oppress'd with care, A burden more than I can bear, I sit me down and sigh : O life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I...
Page 98 - Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave — Then some leaped overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea yawned around her, like a hell, And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.