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Page 45
... sister , as they differed in cha- racter , taste , and expression . Her profuse locks were of that paly brown which receives from the passing sun - beam a tinge of gold , but darkens again when the ray has passed from it . Her THE ...
... sister , as they differed in cha- racter , taste , and expression . Her profuse locks were of that paly brown which receives from the passing sun - beam a tinge of gold , but darkens again when the ray has passed from it . Her THE ...
Page 46
... sister , though perhaps that which Minna did excite , might be of a more intense as well as a more reverential character . The dispositions of these lovely sisters were not less different than their complexions . In the kindly ...
... sister , though perhaps that which Minna did excite , might be of a more intense as well as a more reverential character . The dispositions of these lovely sisters were not less different than their complexions . In the kindly ...
Page 48
... sister looked with a sense of tran- sient awe or emotion , which vanished on her re- turn from witnessing them , continued long to fill Minna's imagination , not only in solitude , and in the silence of the night , but in the hours of ...
... sister looked with a sense of tran- sient awe or emotion , which vanished on her re- turn from witnessing them , continued long to fill Minna's imagination , not only in solitude , and in the silence of the night , but in the hours of ...
Page 49
... sister was not more generally beloved than the more retired and pensive Minna . Indeed the two lovely sisters were not only the delight of their friends , but the pride of those islands , where the inhabitants of a certain rank were ...
... sister was not more generally beloved than the more retired and pensive Minna . Indeed the two lovely sisters were not only the delight of their friends , but the pride of those islands , where the inhabitants of a certain rank were ...
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... sisters . From his boyhood , as we have noticed , he had been a fre- quent inmate of the residence of Magnus at Burgh - Westra , although it lay nearly twenty miles distant from Jarlshof . The impassable cha- racter of the country ...
... sisters . From his boyhood , as we have noticed , he had been a fre- quent inmate of the residence of Magnus at Burgh - Westra , although it lay nearly twenty miles distant from Jarlshof . The impassable cha- racter of the country ...
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Page 50 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 185 - He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he ; And, when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea.
Page 299 - Was but the prelude to that glorious day, When thou on silver Thames did'st cut thy way, With...