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... never rest , and over which the stars shine paler than elsewhere . No ; it is not lest I should forget a single circumstance that I write ; but rather in hope that by doing so they may haunt my mind less continually . The commencement ...
... never rest , and over which the stars shine paler than elsewhere . No ; it is not lest I should forget a single circumstance that I write ; but rather in hope that by doing so they may haunt my mind less continually . The commencement ...
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... never left it for a single day . My guardian , with whom I was going to live , was a complete stranger , and in no way related to me . He had been my father's friend , I had heard , and this , with the know- ledge that his name was ...
... never left it for a single day . My guardian , with whom I was going to live , was a complete stranger , and in no way related to me . He had been my father's friend , I had heard , and this , with the know- ledge that his name was ...
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... never tould me what time to come here . We're in since yesterday , the bastes an ' I , but we war at a fair all the mornin ' . If I'd jest known , though , nothing ' d have made me kape the lady . Make haste , will you , an ' tell the ...
... never tould me what time to come here . We're in since yesterday , the bastes an ' I , but we war at a fair all the mornin ' . If I'd jest known , though , nothing ' d have made me kape the lady . Make haste , will you , an ' tell the ...
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... never conceived burst upon my view . Moun- tains of stupendous altitude , rising like an amphitheatre to the clouds ; some covered with furze and creeping underwood , others barren and brown ; heath and moorland stretching away in the ...
... never conceived burst upon my view . Moun- tains of stupendous altitude , rising like an amphitheatre to the clouds ; some covered with furze and creeping underwood , others barren and brown ; heath and moorland stretching away in the ...
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Maria Nethercott. for the first time with a mother it has never seen , my heart bounded with love towards my native country . I now could understand why the Irish feel such a passionate devotion to their land , why their poets speak of ...
Maria Nethercott. for the first time with a mother it has never seen , my heart bounded with love towards my native country . I now could understand why the Irish feel such a passionate devotion to their land , why their poets speak of ...
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Page 47 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
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Page 85 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
Page 240 - twas visible— I saw not, but I felt that it was there. That which I saw was the revealed abode Of Spirits in beatitude: my heart Swelled in my breast—' I have been dead,' I cried,
Page 277 - ... dress that one of the young men — the young savants — was so good as to drop there. Did you see the young savants who work under Gordon's orders ? I thought they were too forlorn ; there is n't one of them you would look at. If you can believe it, there was n't one of them that looked at me ; they took no more notice of me than if I had been the charwoman. They might have shown me some attention, at least, as the wife of the proprietor. What is it that Gordon 's called — is n't there some...
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Page 1 - SEVERAL years have passed since the events occurred which I am about to relate in this narrative.