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When I saw the capons I at once comprehended the meaning of those terrible
words - Must we kill them both ? " ing and drinking in right earnest — he at least :
- for my own part I could not help glancing about at the place and the people .
When I saw the capons I at once comprehended the meaning of those terrible
words - Must we kill them both ? " ing and drinking in right earnest — he at least :
- for my own part I could not help glancing about at the place and the people .
Page 47
The roof of the large chamber over the gate is The large spaces which served as
pleasure grounds sumptuously gilt and carved , and supported by to the avenues
, are now converted into common eighteen lofty octagonal pillars , once richly ...
The roof of the large chamber over the gate is The large spaces which served as
pleasure grounds sumptuously gilt and carved , and supported by to the avenues
, are now converted into common eighteen lofty octagonal pillars , once richly ...
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I was once , " said he , “ engaged in a skirmishing party in America ; I advanced
too far , was separated from iny friends , and saw three Indians in pursuit of me :
the horrors of the lomahawk in the hands of angry savages , took possession of ...
I was once , " said he , “ engaged in a skirmishing party in America ; I advanced
too far , was separated from iny friends , and saw three Indians in pursuit of me :
the horrors of the lomahawk in the hands of angry savages , took possession of ...
Page 95
I had felt no pain from the much of his comfort depends upon attention to moment
I was submerged ; and at once a kind of their cleanliness . Care ought to be taken
that no representation , nearly of a green color , presented grit be in any ...
I had felt no pain from the much of his comfort depends upon attention to moment
I was submerged ; and at once a kind of their cleanliness . Care ought to be taken
that no representation , nearly of a green color , presented grit be in any ...
Page 180
Pillars , whose respectability is vouched , says , in his affidavit , that he ripped
open the eyes of a Buzzard in the course of three or four months not less than fifty
times ; and once , at a log - rolling , ten times in one day . The head was , after ...
Pillars , whose respectability is vouched , says , in his affidavit , that he ripped
open the eyes of a Buzzard in the course of three or four months not less than fifty
times ; and once , at a log - rolling , ten times in one day . The head was , after ...
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Page 84 - FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end: Were this frail world our only rest.
Page 183 - A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 116 - I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 51 - Even in its very motion there was rest ; While every breath of eve that chanced to blow Wafted the traveller to the beauteous west. Emblem, methought, of the departed soul, To whose white robe the gleam of bliss is given ; And by the breath of mercy made to roll Right onward to the golden gates of Heaven ; Where to the eye of Faith it peaceful lies, And tells to man his glorious destinies.
Page 180 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 188 - Who toss the golden and the flame-like flowers, And pass the prairie-hawk that, poised on high, Flaps his broad wings, yet moves not - ye have played Among the palms of Mexico and vines Of Texas, and have crisped the limpid brooks That from the fountains of Sonora glide Into the calm Pacific - have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this?
Page 84 - Beyond the flight of time, Beyond the reign of death, There surely is some blessed clime Where life is not a breath. Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward and expire.
Page 30 - Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The petrel telleth her tale — in vain...
Page 101 - Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun so rise For years — I cannot count them o'er, I lost their long and heavy score, When my last brother droop'd and died, And I lay living by his side.
Page 15 - Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around; When even the deep blue heavens look glad, And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground?