Pleasant Hours with Illustrious Men and Women: With Many Personal ReminiscencesR.G. Badoux, 1885 - 408 Seiten |
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... young and beautiful Vir- ginian maiden , by whom he had six children , four sons and two daughters , of whom George was the eldest . Augustine Wash- ington was a God - fearing man , and sought to impress upon his children the claims of ...
... young and beautiful Vir- ginian maiden , by whom he had six children , four sons and two daughters , of whom George was the eldest . Augustine Wash- ington was a God - fearing man , and sought to impress upon his children the claims of ...
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... young colony afforded . But John did not yearn for the drudgery of study . The boy did not relish the thought of ex- changing the free and cheery life of the farm , with the woods and brooks and not - far - off ocean , for the ...
... young colony afforded . But John did not yearn for the drudgery of study . The boy did not relish the thought of ex- changing the free and cheery life of the farm , with the woods and brooks and not - far - off ocean , for the ...
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... young Jefferson felt himself happy in enjoying his instruction and companionship . Jeffer- son's extensive reading of the best authors , his fine manners and cheerful , social enthusiasm , won many friends for him . And there can be no ...
... young Jefferson felt himself happy in enjoying his instruction and companionship . Jeffer- son's extensive reading of the best authors , his fine manners and cheerful , social enthusiasm , won many friends for him . And there can be no ...
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... young lawyer , and kindled the fires of that ambition that burned so brightly in after years . In 1767 Jefferson commenced the prac- tice of law . Two years later he began his public career , being elected in 1769 a member of the House ...
... young lawyer , and kindled the fires of that ambition that burned so brightly in after years . In 1767 Jefferson commenced the prac- tice of law . Two years later he began his public career , being elected in 1769 a member of the House ...
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... young widow of Bathurst Skelton , and daughter of John Wayles , one of the most eminent lawyers of the time . The next four years of Jefferson's life were crowded with many anxieties . There were few busier men in all America than ...
... young widow of Bathurst Skelton , and daughter of John Wayles , one of the most eminent lawyers of the time . The next four years of Jefferson's life were crowded with many anxieties . There were few busier men in all America than ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 241 - On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Seite 258 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch...
Seite 256 - Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping — tapping at my chamber door — That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door: Darkness there and nothing more.
Seite 260 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells ! How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells...
Seite 213 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye ; I feel my heart new open'd : O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Seite 257 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door, , Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
Seite 212 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels * bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know...
Seite 259 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Seite 255 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "T is some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door Only this and nothing more.
Seite 212 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...