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Page 14
We were crossing a broad expanse of what seemed at a little distance a smooth
shaven lawn of the most brilliant green , but which proved on trial little better than
a quaking bog --- embracing within its ridgy circumference all possible varieties ...
We were crossing a broad expanse of what seemed at a little distance a smooth
shaven lawn of the most brilliant green , but which proved on trial little better than
a quaking bog --- embracing within its ridgy circumference all possible varieties ...
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... tired and cross , reader - when down came our good horse to the very chin in a
bog - hole , green as Erin on the top , but giving way on a touch , and seeming
deep enough to have engulphed us entirely if its width had been proportionate .
... tired and cross , reader - when down came our good horse to the very chin in a
bog - hole , green as Erin on the top , but giving way on a touch , and seeming
deep enough to have engulphed us entirely if its width had been proportionate .
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... and I thought with dismay of the low - browed roof , which had seemed to me to
rest on the tops of the window.frames . And , to make a long story short , though
manifold were the runnings up and down , and close the whisperings before all ...
... and I thought with dismay of the low - browed roof , which had seemed to me to
rest on the tops of the window.frames . And , to make a long story short , though
manifold were the runnings up and down , and close the whisperings before all ...
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They seemed to be on the point of concluding their morning duties . The hearth
was newly swept , a tin reflector was before the fire , apparently full of bread , or
something equally important . The young lady was placing some cups and plates
...
They seemed to be on the point of concluding their morning duties . The hearth
was newly swept , a tin reflector was before the fire , apparently full of bread , or
something equally important . The young lady was placing some cups and plates
...
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The sound seemed almost as magical in its effects as the whistle of Roderick Dhu
; for , solitary as the whole neighbourhood had appeared to me in the morning ,
not many moments elapsed before in came men and boys enough to fill the ...
The sound seemed almost as magical in its effects as the whistle of Roderick Dhu
; for , solitary as the whole neighbourhood had appeared to me in the morning ,
not many moments elapsed before in came men and boys enough to fill the ...
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Page 250 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
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Page 133 - I COME, I come ! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song, Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves opening as I pass.
Page 116 - The pen, and ink, and a sheet o' paper, and a wafer,' is no unusual request ; and when the pen is returned, you are generally informed, that you sent ' an awful bad pen.' " I have been frequently reminded of one of Johnson's humorous sketches. A man returning a broken wheel-barrow to a Quaker, with ' Here, I 've broke your rotten wheel-barrow, usin
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| Title | A New Home--who'll Follow?: Or, Glimpses of Western Life, Part 33 Novel newspaper |
| Author | Caroline Matilda Kirkland |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | C. S. Francis, 1839 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 337 pages |
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