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... changed to sighs in the distance . " Il Sogno , " with its wild passion , died into silence , and I found - how , I know not - my hands imprisoned in yours . My eyes looked up through a golden mist to your face , bending over me . Like ...
... changed to sighs in the distance . " Il Sogno , " with its wild passion , died into silence , and I found - how , I know not - my hands imprisoned in yours . My eyes looked up through a golden mist to your face , bending over me . Like ...
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... changed , I shall hear the same tones , the same words — a melody and a remembrance to carry in my heart for ever . " " To - morrow - you must indeed leave to - morrow ? not till I have won a permission to visit you in your own home ...
... changed , I shall hear the same tones , the same words — a melody and a remembrance to carry in my heart for ever . " " To - morrow - you must indeed leave to - morrow ? not till I have won a permission to visit you in your own home ...
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... changed with a jar of bitterness : " And this past - is it then so hideous in guilt or wretchedness that it cannot be mine ? Would it torture you if you linked your destiny with mine ? Could it haunt you , or come between us in our love ...
... changed with a jar of bitterness : " And this past - is it then so hideous in guilt or wretchedness that it cannot be mine ? Would it torture you if you linked your destiny with mine ? Could it haunt you , or come between us in our love ...
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... changed . Her hair was white on the temples ; lines marked her face ; her beauty had fled with the life which fed and nourished it . My mother decided to remain at the North . She purchased the little cottage , and as soon as her ...
... changed . Her hair was white on the temples ; lines marked her face ; her beauty had fled with the life which fed and nourished it . My mother decided to remain at the North . She purchased the little cottage , and as soon as her ...
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... changed . News came from New Orleans that the banker with whom all our property was intrusted had involved himself in speculations and fled from the country , leaving ruin and misery for thousands behind him . There was no disguising ...
... changed . News came from New Orleans that the banker with whom all our property was intrusted had involved himself in speculations and fled from the country , leaving ruin and misery for thousands behind him . There was no disguising ...
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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