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... , still survive in Vir- ginia to mark the site where a colonial home once stood ; in the vicissitudes of war and revolution , perhaps , the house itself has been destroyed and the ancient family which England's First Colony II.
... , still survive in Vir- ginia to mark the site where a colonial home once stood ; in the vicissitudes of war and revolution , perhaps , the house itself has been destroyed and the ancient family which England's First Colony II.
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house itself has been destroyed and the ancient family which once occupied it dispersed far and wide ; but the tombstones , with timeworn coats - of - arms and legends , remain to point silently to an era when the social customs of ...
house itself has been destroyed and the ancient family which once occupied it dispersed far and wide ; but the tombstones , with timeworn coats - of - arms and legends , remain to point silently to an era when the social customs of ...
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... once dismiss the assembly , but after he had made an elegant panegyrick or encomiastick speech of half an houres continuance , tending to nothing else but the extolling of him for the rare and most singular gifts , wherewith God and ...
... once dismiss the assembly , but after he had made an elegant panegyrick or encomiastick speech of half an houres continuance , tending to nothing else but the extolling of him for the rare and most singular gifts , wherewith God and ...
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... once said of Disraeli that he was the only statesman of the day sensible of " the spell of literature . " The statement perhaps goes a little too far , but it is at all events correct in recognising the strong literary bias in the ...
... once said of Disraeli that he was the only statesman of the day sensible of " the spell of literature . " The statement perhaps goes a little too far , but it is at all events correct in recognising the strong literary bias in the ...
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... once only , and that was at the dinner - table of Lord Stanhope . He admired Jane Austen , and it is believed that " Emma " was his favourite among her novels . His estimate of Lockhart , the biographer of Scott , was low . In a letter ...
... once only , and that was at the dinner - table of Lord Stanhope . He admired Jane Austen , and it is believed that " Emma " was his favourite among her novels . His estimate of Lockhart , the biographer of Scott , was low . In a letter ...
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Page 471 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Page 389 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Page 275 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ? The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields...
Page 127 - O Bells of San Bias, in vain Ye call back the Past again ! The Past is deaf to your prayer : Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into- light ; It is daybreak everywhere.
Page 273 - Not long ago I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll or pathetic, descriptive or sentimental, tender or satirical, as the humour strikes me; for, if I mistake not, the measure which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition.
Page 86 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Page 596 - Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it; Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
Page 389 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame? I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. Thou hast...
Page 270 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley...
Page 507 - ROBIN HOOD and Little John, They both are gone to the fair, O ! And we will go to the merry green- wood, To see what they do there, O ! And for to chase, O ! To chase the buck and doe.