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... sweet and solemn is this midnight scene ! " * ANIMATION naturally inspires activity and gives movement to the whole body , lights up the features , and impels the limbs and arms to brisk and expressive action . [ 1. ] [ 2. ] Example ...
... sweet and solemn is this midnight scene ! " * ANIMATION naturally inspires activity and gives movement to the whole body , lights up the features , and impels the limbs and arms to brisk and expressive action . [ 1. ] [ 2. ] Example ...
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... Sweet odors in the sea - air , sweet and strange , Shall tell the home - sick mariner of the shore ; And , listening to thy murmur , he shall deem He hears the rustling leaf and running stream . Ex . XIX . - THE WORLD OF BEAUTY AROUND ...
... Sweet odors in the sea - air , sweet and strange , Shall tell the home - sick mariner of the shore ; And , listening to thy murmur , he shall deem He hears the rustling leaf and running stream . Ex . XIX . - THE WORLD OF BEAUTY AROUND ...
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... sweet moon has entered , No bloodhound has roused up the deer with his bay . He has left the green valley , for paths where the bison Roams through the prairies , or leaps o'er the flood ; Where the snake in the swamp sucks the ...
... sweet moon has entered , No bloodhound has roused up the deer with his bay . He has left the green valley , for paths where the bison Roams through the prairies , or leaps o'er the flood ; Where the snake in the swamp sucks the ...
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... sweet to my dreaming ear , - Like the silvery tones of a fairy's shell , That he winds on the beach so mellow and clear , When the winds and the waves lie together asleep , And the moon and the fairy are watching the deep , She ...
... sweet to my dreaming ear , - Like the silvery tones of a fairy's shell , That he winds on the beach so mellow and clear , When the winds and the waves lie together asleep , And the moon and the fairy are watching the deep , She ...
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... sweet voice I heard her say , " Passing away ! passing away ! " While I gazed at that fair one's cheek , a shade Of thought , or care , stole softly over , Like that by a cloud in a summer day made , Looking down on a field of ...
... sweet voice I heard her say , " Passing away ! passing away ! " While I gazed at that fair one's cheek , a shade Of thought , or care , stole softly over , Like that by a cloud in a summer day made , Looking down on a field of ...
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Annabel Lee attitude and action beauty bell Belshazzar beneath blood body bold bosom brave breast breath bright brow cheek child cloud cried Dacotahs dark dead death deep dream earth eloquence Erin go bragh expression falchion father fear feeling feet fire gesture glory grave hath head hear heard heart heaven Hiawatha hill hour Katydid king land Laughing Water light lips living Lochinvar look Lord mighty Mondamin moon morning mountain N. P. Willis nature ne'er never night noble Number o'er pale passed pride proud R. H. Barham Rhine rock rose round Samian wine shore sigh smile song soul speak speaker spirit stars stood style sweet sword tears tell tempest thee thine thou art thought throne thunder Toll verger voice vulgar boy waves weep wigwam wild wind wings word Yankee girls young