Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... scene is changed they " walk in silk attire , " with artificial flowers on their heads , and soleless shoes on their feet ; picking their steps among the multitudinous small pools which the street - inspector leaves for the ...
... scene is changed they " walk in silk attire , " with artificial flowers on their heads , and soleless shoes on their feet ; picking their steps among the multitudinous small pools which the street - inspector leaves for the ...
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... scenes . Nay , so very unrefined is our taste , that we cannot join in the prevailing hue and cry against gaudy spectacles and splendid scenery , think- ing them very good in their place , and even feel- ing an unbecoming interest in ...
... scenes . Nay , so very unrefined is our taste , that we cannot join in the prevailing hue and cry against gaudy spectacles and splendid scenery , think- ing them very good in their place , and even feel- ing an unbecoming interest in ...
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... scene of his misery , and bent his way up Maiden- lane . One consolation was left him amid all his wretchedness - the wind was now in his favor , and he proceeded without difficulty . On coming to the corner of Pearl - street he turned ...
... scene of his misery , and bent his way up Maiden- lane . One consolation was left him amid all his wretchedness - the wind was now in his favor , and he proceeded without difficulty . On coming to the corner of Pearl - street he turned ...
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... scene to his residence . The accumulated wisdom of ages has recorded that there is nothing so deceitful as appearances . The chilliness and serenity of the outside of Mount Etna give not the slightest hint of the volcanic fires roaring ...
... scene to his residence . The accumulated wisdom of ages has recorded that there is nothing so deceitful as appearances . The chilliness and serenity of the outside of Mount Etna give not the slightest hint of the volcanic fires roaring ...
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... scene at a glance , and then went on with her occupation . It was , as I said before , a scene that a philanthro- pist would , indeed , have gloried in contemplating . " Oh happiness ! our being's end and aim ! ” how strangely and ...
... scene at a glance , and then went on with her occupation . It was , as I said before , a scene that a philanthro- pist would , indeed , have gloried in contemplating . " Oh happiness ! our being's end and aim ! ” how strangely and ...
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Page 242 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 27 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 190 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Page 235 - Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Page 108 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 243 - The mountain shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
Page 233 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Page 70 - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
Page 15 - OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Page 141 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.