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... land that lay in wait beneath its mask of green and shifting shallows ; if the gilded chanticleer saw such a sight as this , he kept his own counsel , and , unless you suspected it from the way in which he still looked steadily into the ...
... land that lay in wait beneath its mask of green and shifting shallows ; if the gilded chanticleer saw such a sight as this , he kept his own counsel , and , unless you suspected it from the way in which he still looked steadily into the ...
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... land , fringed now with steamboats and covered with grimy houses , scarcely visible in the November fog and smoke , modern his- tory began . It began on an April day , one hundred and thirteen years ago , with the first hostile act of ...
... land , fringed now with steamboats and covered with grimy houses , scarcely visible in the November fog and smoke , modern his- tory began . It began on an April day , one hundred and thirteen years ago , with the first hostile act of ...
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... land behind the coast was mountainous and white . was dotted with islands and was crowd- ed with icebergs . The scene was dreary past descrip- tion , and grew more and more dreary as we went along ; for the icebergs multiplied in number ...
... land behind the coast was mountainous and white . was dotted with islands and was crowd- ed with icebergs . The scene was dreary past descrip- tion , and grew more and more dreary as we went along ; for the icebergs multiplied in number ...
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... land lodge ; and even more soundly , for I did not dream , as I had done there , of the man in the moon , nor indeed of any- thing . But before I fell asleep I could not but reflect how strange it was that a human being should from ...
... land lodge ; and even more soundly , for I did not dream , as I had done there , of the man in the moon , nor indeed of any- thing . But before I fell asleep I could not but reflect how strange it was that a human being should from ...
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... land with land , as if there were no ob- stacle . But a wharf seeks the water , and lays its solid hand within its bed . It is the sign of a lasting friendship ; once extended , there it remains ; the water embraces it , takes it into ...
... land with land , as if there were no ob- stacle . But a wharf seeks the water , and lays its solid hand within its bed . It is the sign of a lasting friendship ; once extended , there it remains ; the water embraces it , takes it into ...
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Seite 56 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike; And like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Seite 226 - The question fairly stated is, Has the Constitution delegated to Congress the power to coerce a State into submission which is attempting to withdraw or has actually withdrawn from the Confederacy?
Seite 385 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall : The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call : The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Seite 482 - That hereafter, in this State, there shall be neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; and all persons held to service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free.
Seite 555 - Little improvement can be expected in morality until the producing large families is regarded with the same feelings as drunkenness or any other physical excess. But while the aristocracy and clergy are foremost to set the example of this kind of incontinence, what can be expected from the poor?
Seite 609 - sa narrow ridge in the graveyard Would scarce stay a child in his race, But to me and my thought it is wider Than the star-sown vague of Space.
Seite 108 - If ever I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed; and here I have been glad and hopeful, and here I have been despondent.
Seite 286 - The number was not so great as we expected; and tho' they had been of great use, yet some inconveniences occurring for want of due care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library.
Seite 370 - He scarce believes he's older for his years. Thus, at life's latest eve, we keep in store One disappointment sure, to crown the rest; The disappointment of a promis'd hour.
Seite 610 - Communion in spirit! Forgive me, But I, who am earthy and weak, Would give all my incomes from dreamland For a touch of her hand on my cheek. That little shoe in the corner, So worn and wrinkled and brown, With its emptiness confutes you, And argues your wisdom down.