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... give them to you . " " Avast there , Captain ! " cried the fisher , " a word or two to that bargain , if you please . Shiver my top- sails ! do you think I have a mind to be hanged for your sake ? Me , Peter Blust , who has weathered ...
... give them to you . " " Avast there , Captain ! " cried the fisher , " a word or two to that bargain , if you please . Shiver my top- sails ! do you think I have a mind to be hanged for your sake ? Me , Peter Blust , who has weathered ...
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... give you some violets , but they withered all when my poor father died . " THE grief of Agatha Singleton , unlike that of some of our modern females , might have been taken for a want of sensibility , rather than an excess of it ; but ...
... give you some violets , but they withered all when my poor father died . " THE grief of Agatha Singleton , unlike that of some of our modern females , might have been taken for a want of sensibility , rather than an excess of it ; but ...
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... give up its dead , nor will Heaven restore what it has taken away . " To which Claribelle , rejoiced to perceive in the countenance of her young and lovely mistress an expression of composure and resignation , which , from the nature of ...
... give up its dead , nor will Heaven restore what it has taken away . " To which Claribelle , rejoiced to perceive in the countenance of her young and lovely mistress an expression of composure and resignation , which , from the nature of ...
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... give an account of them , and who replied to her enquiry of , — " Good Sir , how are the poor boys ? " in the following manner : - " By my faith , lady , there is one of them as stout and as strong as a Hercules , and the other has no ...
... give an account of them , and who replied to her enquiry of , — " Good Sir , how are the poor boys ? " in the following manner : - " By my faith , lady , there is one of them as stout and as strong as a Hercules , and the other has no ...
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... give him , I never beheld such a little wolf in my born days ; but do not fear , my lady , that I will cross or anger him , while he is under the care of Shelty he shall have plenty , I promise you ; but would you could see the ...
... give him , I never beheld such a little wolf in my born days ; but do not fear , my lady , that I will cross or anger him , while he is under the care of Shelty he shall have plenty , I promise you ; but would you could see the ...
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Agatha Singleton Alfred Alice answered beautiful Beda beheld Black Forest blush bosom Braganza Captain Singleton chamber child Claribelle Cliff colour Cottage countenance cousin Craftly cried Agatha cried Jessy cried Olive cried the fisher Cromer Dale daughter dear dear Jessy Delcrusa Duchess Duchess of Braganza Duke Duke of Braganza enquired exclaimed eyes father fear feelings Fisher Blust girl gleton hand happy hear heart Heaven heroine holy honest instantly Jessy's kinsman Leontine Craftly Lessington look Lord Montague Lord Winstone lovely Manfrida manner Marchioness Marinetta Marquis means mind Miss Blust Miss Jessy Miss Olive Miss Singleton mistress Montault mother never night old Abbey Olive Blust Olive's once passion Paulo Michello pray pretty protector racter replied Shelty shiver my top-sails silence sister smile sweet tears tell thee thing thou thought tion uttered Agatha voice wish Wolf woman young lady
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Page 547 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Page 214 - Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. "And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep?
Page 149 - The purest treasure mortal times afford Is — spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.
Page 724 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 724 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee.
Page 724 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Page 500 - Our valour is to chase what flies ; our cage We make a choir, as doth the prison'd bird, And sing our bondage freely.
Page 442 - But shade her lustre; all the royal pomp Makes her not proud, but sad : the dignity That doth befit Castile, she casts aside, As if it soiled her purity of heart: But if Don Carlos in her presence stands, Then like a statue starting into life, Her cheeks blush deep with rosy streams ; her eyes Glow with unusual fires ; her arm, her hand, No longer move with langour : all her frame In animated gesture speaks the soul ; Though still her timid modesty of mind Tempers with grace the beauty of her mien,...
Page 301 - Which have been suffer'd, and can ne'er return? Those that have weather'da tempestuous night, And find a calm approaching with the light, Will not, unless their reason they disown, Still make those dangers present that are gone.
Page 676 - Trent and the groves of Clifton heard ; not alone by the Muses But by the Virtues loved, his soul in its youthful aspirings Sought the Holy Hill, and his thirst was for Siloa's waters. Was I deceived by desire...