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... interest and astonish posterity ! Their fortifications , their aqueducts , their theatres , their fountains , all their public works , bear the grave , solid , and majestic character of their lan- guage ; and our modern labours , like ...
... interest and astonish posterity ! Their fortifications , their aqueducts , their theatres , their fountains , all their public works , bear the grave , solid , and majestic character of their lan- guage ; and our modern labours , like ...
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... interest his answers appeared to excite . " It will be seen and heard of - earth and sea will not hold their peace langer ! -Can ye say if the same man be now the Sheriff of the county , that has been sae for some years past ? " " Na ...
... interest his answers appeared to excite . " It will be seen and heard of - earth and sea will not hold their peace langer ! -Can ye say if the same man be now the Sheriff of the county , that has been sae for some years past ? " " Na ...
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... interest , whatever it was , that deter- mined her in his favour , arose not from the impulse of compassion , but from some internal , and proba- bly capricious association of feelings , to which he had no clue . It rested , perhaps ...
... interest , whatever it was , that deter- mined her in his favour , arose not from the impulse of compassion , but from some internal , and proba- bly capricious association of feelings , to which he had no clue . It rested , perhaps ...
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... interest . She was once , you must know , a great heiress , but was ruin- ed by the prodigality of her father , and the villainy of a horrid man in whom he confided . And one of the handsomest young gentlemen in the coun- try is ...
... interest . She was once , you must know , a great heiress , but was ruin- ed by the prodigality of her father , and the villainy of a horrid man in whom he confided . And one of the handsomest young gentlemen in the coun- try is ...
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... interest and to require skill , without any great degree of danger . So that , upon the whole , Matilda , I think you should have had my father , with his pride of arms and of ancestry , his chivalrous point of honour , his high talents ...
... interest and to require skill , without any great degree of danger . So that , upon the whole , Matilda , I think you should have had my father , with his pride of arms and of ancestry , his chivalrous point of honour , his high talents ...
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Page 339 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Page 85 - As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet...
Page 298 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Page 268 - I remember the tune well, though I cannot guess what should at present so strongly recall it to my memory. " He took his flageolet from his pocket, and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune awoke the corresponding associations of a damsel...
Page 452 - MAGISTRATE. I hear thy words, I feel thy pain; Forbear awhile to speak thy woes; Receive our aid, and then again The story of thy life disclose. For, though seduced and led astray, Thou'st travell'd far and wander'd long; Thy God hath seen thee all the way, And all the turns that led thee wrong.
Page 35 - Grins fell destruction, to the monster's heart Let the dart lighten from the nervous arm. These Britain knows not; give, ye Britons, then Your sportive fury, pitiless, to pour Loose on the nightly robber of the fold Him, from his craggy winding haunts unearth'd, Let all the thunder of the chase pursue.
Page 205 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.