Kit Kelvin's Kernels: With IllustrationsRollo, 1860 - 270 Seiten |
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admiration Alderman amid beauty Bell Berry better Bill bright cambric Charley charm chirography Colonel Easy colony crushed dark Dashwood dear death door Dublin ears Eaton Hall Edith exclaimed father favor fearful feeling fell follow Frank golden golden harvest grave Gregory Gregory's Hack hand Hanover County happy head heart Henry honor hope indifference Ingalls Isabel kind King Cotton knew light Lina lips Liverpool look Lord Dunmore Marll Mary memory mind morning mortal mother mountain nature never nevvy night Number passed Patrick Henry Percy perfect Perrôt Philip Marlowe Pierre Pleasant Face poor Prior Wype quiet replied returned Roman Legion sailor Samothes scene silence Simple smile spirit stood stranger strong sweet tell Thrivewell tion told Tom Bolt town turned utter village voice whispered words young youth
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Seite 226 - You owe this strange intelligence, or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. WITCHES vanish. BAN. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them.
Seite 95 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Seite 205 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Seite 205 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us.
Seite 204 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Seite 99 - There is a Divinity which shapes our ends rough hew them how we will.
Seite 146 - ... at the look of blank amazement with which Paddy received my announcement of the necessity of taking out all the coals from the grate, before he could hope to kindle a fire, and the stare of the man of affairs for the D House, as he entered upon the field of my efforts to say that tea was ready." " There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous !" I exclaimed, laughing, in spite of my sympathy with my fair friend.
Seite 99 - They that go down to the sea in ships, and do business in the great waters...
Seite 268 - I would do what I pleased ; and, doing what I pleased, I should have my will ; and, having my will, I should be contented ; and...
Seite 171 - And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace ? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again : and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi ; for he driveth furiously.