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... seemed to bor- row a new and touching grace from the splendor of her presence . Angelique adapted her movements to the music with remarkable pre- cision . Now , while the strain was low and soft , the beautiful girl sailed slowly round ...
... seemed to bor- row a new and touching grace from the splendor of her presence . Angelique adapted her movements to the music with remarkable pre- cision . Now , while the strain was low and soft , the beautiful girl sailed slowly round ...
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... seemed as if nothing short of a miracle could save him . Had An- gelique given him credit for the purity of heart which he possessed , he would have been ruined outright . One day , however , as he was sitting with his intended bride ...
... seemed as if nothing short of a miracle could save him . Had An- gelique given him credit for the purity of heart which he possessed , he would have been ruined outright . One day , however , as he was sitting with his intended bride ...
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... seemed to have wrought a change on their whole systems . Their eyes grew clear and bright ; a dark shade deepened among their silvery locks ; they sat around the table , three gentlemen of middle age , and a woman , hardly beyond her ...
... seemed to have wrought a change on their whole systems . Their eyes grew clear and bright ; a dark shade deepened among their silvery locks ; they sat around the table , three gentlemen of middle age , and a woman , hardly beyond her ...
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... seemed as if gray Time were calling them back from their sunny youth , far down into the chill and darksome vale of years . They looked at old Dr. Heidegger , who sat in his carved arm - chair , holding the rose of half a century ...
... seemed as if gray Time were calling them back from their sunny youth , far down into the chill and darksome vale of years . They looked at old Dr. Heidegger , who sat in his carved arm - chair , holding the rose of half a century ...
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... seemed to understand the proper use of metaphors ; and perhaps he here suggests one of the least fallible tests , save that of the ideas themselves , by which an able author may be discriminated . Very few persons are expert in the ...
... seemed to understand the proper use of metaphors ; and perhaps he here suggests one of the least fallible tests , save that of the ideas themselves , by which an able author may be discriminated . Very few persons are expert in the ...
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Page 81 - I appeal to any white man to say if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 375 - I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents and at the very tiptop of my voice. Here it is, gentlemen ! Here is the good liquor...
Page 517 - CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Page 561 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Page 375 - Fill again, and tell me, on the word of an honest toper, did you ever, in cellar, tavern, or any kind of a dram-shop, spend the price of your children's food for a swig half so delicious?
Page 422 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedewed With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 375 - Who next ? Oh, my little friend, you are let loose from school, and come hither to scrub your blooming face, and drown the memory of certain taps of the ferule, and other schoolboy troubles, in a draught from the Town Pump.
Page 375 - It were a pity, if all this outcry should draw no customers. Here they come. A hot day, gentlemen! Quaff, and away again, so as to keep yourselves in a nice cool sweat. You, my friend, will need another cupful, to wash the dust out of your throat, if it be as thick there as -it is on your cowhide shoes. I see that you have trudged half a score...
Page 375 - Dry work, this speechifying; especially to an unpractised orator. I never conceived, till now, what toil the temperance lecturers undergo for my sake. Hereafter, they shall have the business to themselves. Do, some kind Christian, pump a stroke or two, just to wet my whistle. Thank you, sir ! My dear hearers, when the world shall have been regenerated...
Page 5 - Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician, a man of evil fame, or at least had been so till time had buried him from the knowledge of the present generation, and made him obscure instead of infamous. As for the Widow Wycherly, tradition tells us that she was a great beauty in her day ; but, for a long while past, she had lived in deep seclusion, on account of certain scandalous stories which had prejudiced the gentry of the town against her. It is a circumstance worth mentioning that each of these three...