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... bright , sweet sum- mer time , and beyond the bitter winter ? Why should I not fill my heart with warmth , and food , and light , to cheer the gathering gloom ? There came , at length , a day when I could gratify your wish to listen ...
... bright , sweet sum- mer time , and beyond the bitter winter ? Why should I not fill my heart with warmth , and food , and light , to cheer the gathering gloom ? There came , at length , a day when I could gratify your wish to listen ...
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... bright , the moon pouring floods of light on the sleep- ing earth ; from my bed I could watch the sea tossing and foaming , fire gems capping every wave . Thus watching , I fell into a kind of dream - trance ; I thought the path of ...
... bright , the moon pouring floods of light on the sleep- ing earth ; from my bed I could watch the sea tossing and foaming , fire gems capping every wave . Thus watching , I fell into a kind of dream - trance ; I thought the path of ...
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... bright waters , and as I watched you , enveloped in a cloud of light , swaying to and fro with the rocking boat I could but think of you as an angel sent to pour the balm of heaven into my bruised and weary heart . At parting , you took ...
... bright waters , and as I watched you , enveloped in a cloud of light , swaying to and fro with the rocking boat I could but think of you as an angel sent to pour the balm of heaven into my bruised and weary heart . At parting , you took ...
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... bright , of a blue so deep they seemed black ; a face strikingly pale , with lips so colorless they made the mouth harsh . I saw no dissonance in the face ; I looked at him with pleasure and listened with eagerness to his conversation ...
... bright , of a blue so deep they seemed black ; a face strikingly pale , with lips so colorless they made the mouth harsh . I saw no dissonance in the face ; I looked at him with pleasure and listened with eagerness to his conversation ...
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... bright all the mornings had dawned on days I knew would bring Robert Mandevil to my side . I did not look the child I was at fifteen . I was tall and well developed , physically ; yet I was as much a child in innocence as in the wayward ...
... bright all the mornings had dawned on days I knew would bring Robert Mandevil to my side . I did not look the child I was at fifteen . I was tall and well developed , physically ; yet I was as much a child in innocence as in the wayward ...
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Page 40 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 40 - This is the state of man : in prosperous fortune A shadow, passing light, throws to the ground Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity Comes malice with a sponge moistened in gall, And wipes each beauteous character away : More than the first this melts my soul to pity.
Page 176 - Künstler — denn der Weltmensch schaut nur oberflächlich oder selbstsüchtig, und der Verliebte verfälscht, nur zu sehr am irdischen Geschöpfe hangend ; aber der reine , einfältige Meister , in seiner Werkstätte tagelang denselben zwei Augen gegenüber, die er bildet und rundet — der sieht den Finger Gottes aus den todten Farben wachsen, und was er doch selber gemacht hat, scheint ihm nun nicht...
Page 294 - Before leaving, he stated his intention of travelling far and wide for the space of three years, at the expiration of which time he said he should surely return to visit his child.
Page 308 - I hope you will do me the honor to make my house your home during your stay. — Our frontiers are still infested by parties of Indians from whom I was so unfortunate as to receive two wounds on the 24th. Ult°. — My left arm is very much shattered and a slight wound in the right. — We suppose they were Creeks. — A report has circulated here that your Government...
Page 270 - European population constantly pouring upon yon, — there is no question in my mind that the government of the United States will be entirely in the hands of the mob in a few years