Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 23W. Blackwood., 1828 - England |
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... light of love , we hurried away from the parting hour , and , looking up to the moon and stars , hugged the very hea- vens to our heart . Yet life had not yet nearly reached its meridian , journeying up the sunbright firmament . How ...
... light of love , we hurried away from the parting hour , and , looking up to the moon and stars , hugged the very hea- vens to our heart . Yet life had not yet nearly reached its meridian , journeying up the sunbright firmament . How ...
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... light of the star - like window ; and the merry music is heard like an echo dwell- ing in the sky ! across those humble thresholds often did we on Christmas nights of yore - wandering through our solitary sylvan haunts , under the ...
... light of the star - like window ; and the merry music is heard like an echo dwell- ing in the sky ! across those humble thresholds often did we on Christmas nights of yore - wandering through our solitary sylvan haunts , under the ...
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... light . But now the optical spectra evanish - our sight becomes re- conciled to the various glitter -- the too powerful blaze seems tamed down - the lustre of the hues subside , and we can bear , without winking , or placing our fingers ...
... light . But now the optical spectra evanish - our sight becomes re- conciled to the various glitter -- the too powerful blaze seems tamed down - the lustre of the hues subside , and we can bear , without winking , or placing our fingers ...
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... light - with lyrics that might be set to such music as the lark sings high in 33 - heaven - with odes that might be fitly chanted to the softened voice of the waterfall - with ballads such as Bessy Bell or Mary Gray might have sung " in ...
... light - with lyrics that might be set to such music as the lark sings high in 33 - heaven - with odes that might be fitly chanted to the softened voice of the waterfall - with ballads such as Bessy Bell or Mary Gray might have sung " in ...
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... light , but too high to afford any prospect to those who might be attracted by the vicinity of the huge antique chimneys , which , grim with the smoke of a century , pre- sented devices unintelligible to mo- dern vertu . Many of the bed ...
... light , but too high to afford any prospect to those who might be attracted by the vicinity of the huge antique chimneys , which , grim with the smoke of a century , pre- sented devices unintelligible to mo- dern vertu . Many of the bed ...
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