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... Heaven knows , to expose you to danger - It is your visits here alone to which danger attaches . You have but to rule your own wilful temper - to turn your thoughts and your cares elsewhere , and I can have nothing to ask - nothing to ...
... Heaven knows , to expose you to danger - It is your visits here alone to which danger attaches . You have but to rule your own wilful temper - to turn your thoughts and your cares elsewhere , and I can have nothing to ask - nothing to ...
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... Heaven , " answered Julian , " I will watch his arrival in this island , and in this house ; and ere he has locked thee in his arms , he shall answer to me on the subject of my suit . " " Then demand that answer now " said a voice from ...
... Heaven , " answered Julian , " I will watch his arrival in this island , and in this house ; and ere he has locked thee in his arms , he shall answer to me on the subject of my suit . " " Then demand that answer now " said a voice from ...
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... heaven - to have remain- ed in this seclusion without the surest knowledge of all her material actions ? I have , in person , seen more , both of her and of you , than you could be aware of ; and when absent in the body , I had the ...
... heaven - to have remain- ed in this seclusion without the surest knowledge of all her material actions ? I have , in person , seen more , both of her and of you , than you could be aware of ; and when absent in the body , I had the ...
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... Heaven hath at times opened a door , where man beholds no means of issue . Julian , your mother , for one to whom the truth is unknown , is , after the fashion of the world , one of the best , and one of the wisest of women ; and ...
... Heaven hath at times opened a door , where man beholds no means of issue . Julian , your mother , for one to whom the truth is unknown , is , after the fashion of the world , one of the best , and one of the wisest of women ; and ...
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... but construct- ed of wooden logs ; but when shall the chaunt of trained hirelings , or the sounding of tin and brass tubes amid the aisles of a minster , arise so sweet- 6 ly to heaven , as did the psalm in PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 45.
... but construct- ed of wooden logs ; but when shall the chaunt of trained hirelings , or the sounding of tin and brass tubes amid the aisles of a minster , arise so sweet- 6 ly to heaven , as did the psalm in PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 45.
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Page 227 - What is this world ? what axen men to have ? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Alone withouten any compagnie.
Page 47 - ... fell fast by their unerring fire. In this state of confusion, and while we were about to adopt the desperate project of evacuating the village, and, placing the women and children in the centre, of attempting a retreat to the nearest settlement, it pleased Heaven to send us unexpected assistance. A tall man, of a reverend appearance, whom no one...
Page 218 - What made our poet meddle with a plot ? Was't that he fancied, for the very sake And name of plot, his trifling play might take ? For there's not in't one inch-board evidence...