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... composers . With this book you enclosed a note . It was very short , yet I read it oftener than I sung the songs , and lingered over it longer than over the melodies . There was a dance that evening in the public drawing 14 QUEST .
... composers . With this book you enclosed a note . It was very short , yet I read it oftener than I sung the songs , and lingered over it longer than over the melodies . There was a dance that evening in the public drawing 14 QUEST .
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... longer as pleasant for me to remain ; I gave myself one week more , at Mrs. Rose's urgent entreaty , and promised then to be ready to renounce pleasure and repose for work and care . I thought after this evening you would withdraw from ...
... longer as pleasant for me to remain ; I gave myself one week more , at Mrs. Rose's urgent entreaty , and promised then to be ready to renounce pleasure and repose for work and care . I thought after this evening you would withdraw from ...
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... longer there to monopolize your attentions , my name would be forgotten or a reaction might take place in my favor . You well know I never sought your society , and that Mrs. Rose was present at our interviews ; but why should I linger ...
... longer there to monopolize your attentions , my name would be forgotten or a reaction might take place in my favor . You well know I never sought your society , and that Mrs. Rose was present at our interviews ; but why should I linger ...
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... longer a mystery ; for there , without the chancel you stood ; behind you a brightness I could not penetrate . I reached out my hands to place them in yours , opened to greet me , when lo ! between us hung a crystal screen ; I could ...
... longer a mystery ; for there , without the chancel you stood ; behind you a brightness I could not penetrate . I reached out my hands to place them in yours , opened to greet me , when lo ! between us hung a crystal screen ; I could ...
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... longer shrink from a duty imperative though bitter . Give me but a few days , and allow me to write ; it is better thus , for I cannot trust myself to speak of much you must learn . " " And I may visit you in your mother's home , may I ...
... longer shrink from a duty imperative though bitter . Give me but a few days , and allow me to write ; it is better thus , for I cannot trust myself to speak of much you must learn . " " And I may visit you in your mother's home , may I ...
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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