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... of our travel , our reading , our senses , and our obser- vation , are , more or less , identified with , or illustrated by , that " fatal gift of 66 beauty " to which Filicaja ascribes at once the misfortunes 1857. ] Italians in America .
... of our travel , our reading , our senses , and our obser- vation , are , more or less , identified with , or illustrated by , that " fatal gift of 66 beauty " to which Filicaja ascribes at once the misfortunes 1857. ] Italians in America .
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... less gifted com- patriots ; when infirmities , at last , prevented him from obtaining the bread of independence by the daily labor of a teacher , and cut him off from his great solace in exile , social intercourse and useful activity ...
... less gifted com- patriots ; when infirmities , at last , prevented him from obtaining the bread of independence by the daily labor of a teacher , and cut him off from his great solace in exile , social intercourse and useful activity ...
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... less with astonishment and anger . " Rachel , " said Martha , " mind ye it well . Never marry that Noyse ! Never love him ! He has a traitor spirit , and will break any heart to please his whim for change . I told your father so ; but ...
... less with astonishment and anger . " Rachel , " said Martha , " mind ye it well . Never marry that Noyse ! Never love him ! He has a traitor spirit , and will break any heart to please his whim for change . I told your father so ; but ...
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... less , pinch - nosed old farmer . " I say ought'er been hung up ever s'long ' go . I say hang ' er up now . That's what I say . Ole popish witch done harm ' nuff . Done harm ' nuff to Salem cattle and craps . Spoiled my crap last year ...
... less , pinch - nosed old farmer . " I say ought'er been hung up ever s'long ' go . I say hang ' er up now . That's what I say . Ole popish witch done harm ' nuff . Done harm ' nuff to Salem cattle and craps . Spoiled my crap last year ...
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... less noise , and company and open- ness . And as to the afflicted , I should advise that they be kept asunder in the closest privacy . To that end I have already offered my own house ; telling Justice Hawthorne , that in a few days I ...
... less noise , and company and open- ness . And as to the afflicted , I should advise that they be kept asunder in the closest privacy . To that end I have already offered my own house ; telling Justice Hawthorne , that in a few days I ...
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Page 312 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 151 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Page 36 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 28 - Women know The way to rear up children (to be just) ; They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles...
Page 236 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 371 - WE knew it would rain, for all the morn, A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens — Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To scatter them over the land in showers.
Page 557 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ;—no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have...
Page 564 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit ? or whither shall I flee from thy presence ? If I ascend up to heaven, thou art there ; if I make my bed in hell, behold thou art there.
Page 237 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 37 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...