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... cause to be proud of this excellent young man . Their friendly greetings were repaid by him with affectionate smiles , and a thousand kind enquiries were made by him after the health and welfare of some friend , as often as the ...
... cause to be proud of this excellent young man . Their friendly greetings were repaid by him with affectionate smiles , and a thousand kind enquiries were made by him after the health and welfare of some friend , as often as the ...
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... cause it had originated , certain it was , that Miss Avondale had by her conduct diverted all attention from the ... causing the storm to abate . " " Indeed , " observed Lord Delaware ; " I 6 CLEVELAND ; OR , THE MAN OF PRINCIPLE .
... cause it had originated , certain it was , that Miss Avondale had by her conduct diverted all attention from the ... causing the storm to abate . " " Indeed , " observed Lord Delaware ; " I 6 CLEVELAND ; OR , THE MAN OF PRINCIPLE .
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... cause of once more awakening a difference of opinion between an affectionate parent and an attached son , which became the source of daily regret . Week after week passed on , and still Lord Delaware found himself an inmate of the house ...
... cause of once more awakening a difference of opinion between an affectionate parent and an attached son , which became the source of daily regret . Week after week passed on , and still Lord Delaware found himself an inmate of the house ...
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... causes of disagreement which arise in both parties , from a wish to promote the welfare of the country . " " No ! " said Lady , Mary , " I feel how much life may be em- bittered by entertaining opinions so much at variance , and never ...
... causes of disagreement which arise in both parties , from a wish to promote the welfare of the country . " " No ! " said Lady , Mary , " I feel how much life may be em- bittered by entertaining opinions so much at variance , and never ...
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... cause her soul was ardently excited . The name of Cleveland had been often repeated to her as the champion of all she esteemed , nor could she hear from Sir George Burrell a word that could lessen that favourite in her esteem ; warmly ...
... cause her soul was ardently excited . The name of Cleveland had been often repeated to her as the champion of all she esteemed , nor could she hear from Sir George Burrell a word that could lessen that favourite in her esteem ; warmly ...
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Page 268 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...
Page 287 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Page 337 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Page 268 - Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements!
Page 284 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
Page 129 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 129 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Page 271 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 267 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...