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... hour was placing my heart and honour in greater peril . I would not believe that I was in any danger of loving her , and when I saw my sweet and kind - hearted Ellen , and heard her building airy castles of future hap- piness , I knew ...
... hour was placing my heart and honour in greater peril . I would not believe that I was in any danger of loving her , and when I saw my sweet and kind - hearted Ellen , and heard her building airy castles of future hap- piness , I knew ...
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... hour of prosperity we may reject thy gentle ad- vances , but when the storm beats round us , and human assistance is vain , then does the soul turn trembling to thee as its only solace , then does it look to Heaven as its only friend ...
... hour of prosperity we may reject thy gentle ad- vances , but when the storm beats round us , and human assistance is vain , then does the soul turn trembling to thee as its only solace , then does it look to Heaven as its only friend ...
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... hour - not for his vir- tues or his achievements , but rather for the interest he draws to himself from one remarkable act of his life , around which almost all his thoughts and feelings afterwards revolved - was William Wilson , the ...
... hour - not for his vir- tues or his achievements , but rather for the interest he draws to himself from one remarkable act of his life , around which almost all his thoughts and feelings afterwards revolved - was William Wilson , the ...
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... hour when the bottle - blowers in Salamander Street are often astir to begin their work . This may account for Wilson's subsequent statement , that when he passed the cones , a loud shout saluted his ears , a circumstance that fright ...
... hour when the bottle - blowers in Salamander Street are often astir to begin their work . This may account for Wilson's subsequent statement , that when he passed the cones , a loud shout saluted his ears , a circumstance that fright ...
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... you , man ? why are you here at this hour , in this state ? Whose blood is that on your face ? —your own , or one of your father's calves , or that man Begbie's , who was killed last night ? " Let me in , let me in , " A DESPERATE ACT . 33.
... you , man ? why are you here at this hour , in this state ? Whose blood is that on your face ? —your own , or one of your father's calves , or that man Begbie's , who was killed last night ? " Let me in , let me in , " A DESPERATE ACT . 33.
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Page 237 - Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless: Still various and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away...
Page 240 - Let Fate do her worst, there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear.
Page 223 - When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main ; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : " Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves!
Page 240 - Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 129 - How ill this taper burns ! Ha ! who comes here ? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition.
Page 121 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
Page 223 - THE stars are with the voyager Wherever he may sail ; The moon is constant to her time ; The sun will never fail ; But follow, follow round the world, The green earth and the sea ; So love is with the lover's heart, Wherever he may be.