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... perhaps in the dry recesses of old libraries he might be alone , and so he delved deep among musty tomes , striving to bury his heart with the dust of ages that he found there ; but another hand shifted the leaves as he read , and eyes ...
... perhaps in the dry recesses of old libraries he might be alone , and so he delved deep among musty tomes , striving to bury his heart with the dust of ages that he found there ; but another hand shifted the leaves as he read , and eyes ...
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... Perhaps it was the Ghost's farewell . A new sense of freedom suffused his being , and he laughed a long and bitter laugh as he leaned scornfully against the wall . Could the Ghost have left a companionship such as that ? Perhaps by ab ...
... Perhaps it was the Ghost's farewell . A new sense of freedom suffused his being , and he laughed a long and bitter laugh as he leaned scornfully against the wall . Could the Ghost have left a companionship such as that ? Perhaps by ab ...
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... Perhaps it was not possible thus violently to pass from one such state to another not less peculiar and intense , or perhaps his imagination now and then conjured up a semblance , languid and wan indeed , of what had been a weary fact ...
... Perhaps it was not possible thus violently to pass from one such state to another not less peculiar and intense , or perhaps his imagination now and then conjured up a semblance , languid and wan indeed , of what had been a weary fact ...
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... perhaps millions of cycles away , but on its bosom and overtopping it like the foam on a long sea - swell , the atoms of air immediately in contact with himself seemed each to drop a golden note of full music down , till a distinct ...
... perhaps millions of cycles away , but on its bosom and overtopping it like the foam on a long sea - swell , the atoms of air immediately in contact with himself seemed each to drop a golden note of full music down , till a distinct ...
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A Romance Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford. and neither ceasing suddenly nor dying away ; perhaps it touched the key - note of sleep , for over his perturbation a drowsiness wrapped itself , and erelong he slept . Sleeping , Sir Rohan ...
A Romance Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford. and neither ceasing suddenly nor dying away ; perhaps it touched the key - note of sleep , for over his perturbation a drowsiness wrapped itself , and erelong he slept . Sleeping , Sir Rohan ...
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Page 29 - Mo9a tan fermosa non vi en la frontera, como una vaquera de la Finojosa. Faziendo la vía del Calatraveño a Santa María, vencido del sueño, por tierra fragosa perdí la carrera, do vi la vaquera de la Finojosa.
Page 59 - Choose us out men, and go ' out, fight with Amalek : to-morrow I will stand on the ' top of the hill with the rod of GOD in mine hand.
Page 346 - Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
Page 4 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Page 346 - So fashioned a porch with rare device, Archt over head with an embracing vine, Whose bounches hanging downe seemd to entice All passers-by to taste their lushious wine, And did themselves into their hands incline, As freely offering to be gathered ; Some deepe empurpled as the hyacine, Some as the rubine laughing sweetely red, Some like faire emeraudes, not yet well ripened : LV.
Page 7 - ... où va la possibilité. Si l'on entendoit bien la différence qu'il ya entre l'impossible et l'inusité, et entre ce qui est contre l'ordre du cours de nature et contre la commune opinion des hommes, en ne croyant pas témérairement, ny aussi ne descroyant pas facilement, on observeroit la règle de Rien trop, commandée par Chilon.
Page 26 - But the sea, it fell a-moaning, And the white gulls rocked thereon; And the young moon dropped from heaven, And the lights hid one by one. All silently their glances Slipped down the cruel sea, And wait ! cried the night and wind and storm,— Wait, till I come to thee!
Page 346 - Withall she laughed, and she blusht withall, That blushing to her laughter gave more grace, And laughter to her blushing, as did fall. Now when they...
Page 27 - I sung, my true love! Come hasten home to me! But the sea, it fell a-moaning, And the white gulls rocked thereon; And the young moon dropped from heaven, And the lights hid one by one. All silently their glances Slipped down the cruel...