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... story - books . And as we were lying off - I forget the cursed name of it - he begged me to put him ashore . He could not speak a word of English , but one of the fellows with him interpreted , and they were all anxious to get ashore ...
... story - books . And as we were lying off - I forget the cursed name of it - he begged me to put him ashore . He could not speak a word of English , but one of the fellows with him interpreted , and they were all anxious to get ashore ...
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... story . It was My chamber , as I have mentioned , gallery , which had been the scene , one of many , opening upon the long four generations back , of that unna- tural and bloody midnight duel , which had laid one scion of this an- cient ...
... story . It was My chamber , as I have mentioned , gallery , which had been the scene , one of many , opening upon the long four generations back , of that unna- tural and bloody midnight duel , which had laid one scion of this an- cient ...
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... story , watching experimen- tally in a haunted chamber . My cigar case was a resource . I was not a bit afraid of being found out . I did not even take the precaution of smoking up the chimney . I boldly lighted my cheroot . I peeped ...
... story , watching experimen- tally in a haunted chamber . My cigar case was a resource . I was not a bit afraid of being found out . I did not even take the precaution of smoking up the chimney . I boldly lighted my cheroot . I peeped ...
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... story of my adventure , de- spite the secret ridicule with which , I fancied , he would receive it , had it not been for a certain insurmountable disgust and horror which held me tongue - tied upon the affair . I told him , however ...
... story of my adventure , de- spite the secret ridicule with which , I fancied , he would receive it , had it not been for a certain insurmountable disgust and horror which held me tongue - tied upon the affair . I told him , however ...
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... story , which I think is a pattern of frankness and modest dignity , I'd say with a courtesy - Think not , prince , that I have always been a cat , and that my birth is obscure ; my father was king of six kingdoms , and loved my mother ...
... story , which I think is a pattern of frankness and modest dignity , I'd say with a courtesy - Think not , prince , that I have always been a cat , and that my birth is obscure ; my father was king of six kingdoms , and loved my mother ...
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Page 342 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep...
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Page 161 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 165 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 161 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
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Page 306 - ... could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection.
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Page 161 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air...
Page 159 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.