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... Dead ,. Napoleon , Passing Away , - Song of the Shirt , " Aspire , " The Convict Ship , Aspirations of Youth , . Pleasures of Memory , Poetry , The Execution , Coeur de Lion , The Bell of the Atlantic , The Gladiator , Absalom , The ...
... Dead ,. Napoleon , Passing Away , - Song of the Shirt , " Aspire , " The Convict Ship , Aspirations of Youth , . Pleasures of Memory , Poetry , The Execution , Coeur de Lion , The Bell of the Atlantic , The Gladiator , Absalom , The ...
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... dead ! " FEAR , when it extends no further than apprehension , timidity , or cowardice , inclines to narrow , confined , and cowering pose tures , and trembling motion ; but , when it amounts to alarm . and terror , it causes shrinking ...
... dead ! " FEAR , when it extends no further than apprehension , timidity , or cowardice , inclines to narrow , confined , and cowering pose tures , and trembling motion ; but , when it amounts to alarm . and terror , it causes shrinking ...
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... dead art , and its glory of living nature ; from the sides of the Switzer's moun- tains , from the capitals of various nations ; all of them saying in their hearts , we will wait for the September gales to have done with their ...
... dead art , and its glory of living nature ; from the sides of the Switzer's moun- tains , from the capitals of various nations ; all of them saying in their hearts , we will wait for the September gales to have done with their ...
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... dead . But , apparently , each subor- dinate officer lost all presence of mind , then courage , and so honor . In a wild scramble , that ignoble mob of firemen , engineers , waiters and crew , rushed for the boats , and aban- doned the ...
... dead . But , apparently , each subor- dinate officer lost all presence of mind , then courage , and so honor . In a wild scramble , that ignoble mob of firemen , engineers , waiters and crew , rushed for the boats , and aban- doned the ...
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... dead and dying , were some grown old in wars , ― The death - wound on their gallant breasts , the last of many scars ; But some were young , -and suddenly beheld life's morn de- cline , - And one had come from Bingen , —fair Bingen on ...
... dead and dying , were some grown old in wars , ― The death - wound on their gallant breasts , the last of many scars ; But some were young , -and suddenly beheld life's morn de- cline , - And one had come from Bingen , —fair Bingen on ...
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