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... nature of the subject . In lively conversation , and rapid argument , they are comparatively few and short . In se- rious , dignified , and pathetic speaking , they are far more numer- ous and more prolonged . The pause is marked thus ...
... nature of the subject . In lively conversation , and rapid argument , they are comparatively few and short . In se- rious , dignified , and pathetic speaking , they are far more numer- ous and more prolonged . The pause is marked thus ...
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... nature ◅ was endeavoring to improve that all the virtues of the ancient world and of it does really appear upon herself were but so many studies preparatory to the patriot of the new . Individual in- stances no doubt there were ...
... nature ◅ was endeavoring to improve that all the virtues of the ancient world and of it does really appear upon herself were but so many studies preparatory to the patriot of the new . Individual in- stances no doubt there were ...
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... , pertaining to the appearance of a person who is dead ; ghostly . In di cà ' tion , mark ; sign.- Vi cln'i ty , neighborhood .-- ' Blight , injure or destroy . summer . But in this genial ' interval nature is The Hippopotamus.
... , pertaining to the appearance of a person who is dead ; ghostly . In di cà ' tion , mark ; sign.- Vi cln'i ty , neighborhood .-- ' Blight , injure or destroy . summer . But in this genial ' interval nature is The Hippopotamus.
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... nature called to the fields , and the rural " feeling throbbed in every bosom ; but when I , luckless urchin ! was doomed to be ' Gẻ ' ni al , favorable ; natural . — 3 Frå ' grance , sweetness of smell.- * Turtle ( ter ' tl ) , here ...
... nature called to the fields , and the rural " feeling throbbed in every bosom ; but when I , luckless urchin ! was doomed to be ' Gẻ ' ni al , favorable ; natural . — 3 Frå ' grance , sweetness of smell.- * Turtle ( ter ' tl ) , here ...
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... Nature is yours in all her glory : her ever - varying and for- ever beautiful face smiles peace upon you . Her hills and valleys , fields and flowers , and rocks , and streams , and holy places , know no desecration ' in the step of ...
... Nature is yours in all her glory : her ever - varying and for- ever beautiful face smiles peace upon you . Her hills and valleys , fields and flowers , and rocks , and streams , and holy places , know no desecration ' in the step of ...
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Page 346 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news, Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet...
Page 407 - T' make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke,— That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Page 22 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman?
Page 422 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 421 - Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
Page 338 - The secret which the murderer possesses soon comes to possess him, and, like the evil spirits of which we read, it overcomes him, and leads him whithersoever it will. He feels it beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions...
Page 337 - Ah, gentlemen ! that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe.
Page 62 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!
Page 423 - Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 421 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.