The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon Gebbie & Company, 1893 |
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... father's gouty footsteps approaching the parlour door , accom- panied with the stiff clatter of Feathertop's high - heeled shoes , than she seated herself bolt upright and innocently began warbling a song . " Polly ! daughter Polly ...
... father's gouty footsteps approaching the parlour door , accom- panied with the stiff clatter of Feathertop's high - heeled shoes , than she seated herself bolt upright and innocently began warbling a song . " Polly ! daughter Polly ...
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... father's voice , her mother's eyes Accuse her treason ; ' tis in vain She thinks herself a wife , and tries To comprehend the greater gain ; Her unknown fortune nothing cheers Her loving heart's familiar loss , And torrents of repentant ...
... father's voice , her mother's eyes Accuse her treason ; ' tis in vain She thinks herself a wife , and tries To comprehend the greater gain ; Her unknown fortune nothing cheers Her loving heart's familiar loss , And torrents of repentant ...
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... father , the late Rev. G. C. Tennyson , and at Trinity College , Cambridge , where in 1829 he gained the Chancellor's medal for his English poem entitled Timbuctoo . Two years before that event , he had pub- lished , in conjunction with ...
... father , the late Rev. G. C. Tennyson , and at Trinity College , Cambridge , where in 1829 he gained the Chancellor's medal for his English poem entitled Timbuctoo . Two years before that event , he had pub- lished , in conjunction with ...
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... father , my dear , All for a slanderous story , that cost me many a tear . I mean your grandfather , Annie ; it cost me a world of woe , Seventy years ago , my darling , seventy years ago . For Jenny , my cousin , had come to the place ...
... father , my dear , All for a slanderous story , that cost me many a tear . I mean your grandfather , Annie ; it cost me a world of woe , Seventy years ago , my darling , seventy years ago . For Jenny , my cousin , had come to the place ...
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... father at sixty - five : And Willy , my eldest born , at nigh threescore and ten ; I knew them all as babies , and now they're elderly men . For mine is a time of peace , it is not often I grieve ; I am oftener sitting at home in my ...
... father at sixty - five : And Willy , my eldest born , at nigh threescore and ten ; I knew them all as babies , and now they're elderly men . For mine is a time of peace , it is not often I grieve ; I am oftener sitting at home in my ...
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Seite 325 - Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy. "The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Seite 180 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Seite 261 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
Seite 261 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
Seite 261 - While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide the effects, by negotiation.
Seite 335 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. /But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, | and...
Seite 283 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame. The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses and churches, was like an hideous storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed that at the last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forced to stand still and let the flames burn on, which they did for near two miles in length and one in breadth.
Seite xiv - Or find some ruin midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds or driving rain Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires ; And hears their simple bell ; and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Seite 325 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Seite xiv - O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With short, shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...