The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 4Carson Stewart & Company, 1886 - Literature |
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... Deep , The . Deer - Shooting Thomas Brainerd 211 Lord Francis Leveson Gower 52 Dewdrops . Detection and Punishment of Crime , The Devoted Wife , The . Discontent Discovery of the New World , The Downfall of Poland , The Dropped Trinket ...
... Deep , The . Deer - Shooting Thomas Brainerd 211 Lord Francis Leveson Gower 52 Dewdrops . Detection and Punishment of Crime , The Devoted Wife , The . Discontent Discovery of the New World , The Downfall of Poland , The Dropped Trinket ...
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... Deep Rural Pleasures Rover and Baby . Saladin and Malek Adhel . Sáma - Veda , The . . Shades of Endermay , The . • Emma Willard . AUTHOR PAGE . Trans . Charles Abraham Elton James Thomson . 426 396 Trans . H. H. Wilson 176 468 Abbie ...
... Deep Rural Pleasures Rover and Baby . Saladin and Malek Adhel . Sáma - Veda , The . . Shades of Endermay , The . • Emma Willard . AUTHOR PAGE . Trans . Charles Abraham Elton James Thomson . 426 396 Trans . H. H. Wilson 176 468 Abbie ...
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... deep tinge of negro blood . On hearing this sudden question the Ethi- " I guess he'd have mentioned if it was , " said the old farmer ; and he removed his chair back to the corner , leaving Dominicus quite down in the mouth . Here was a ...
... deep tinge of negro blood . On hearing this sudden question the Ethi- " I guess he'd have mentioned if it was , " said the old farmer ; and he removed his chair back to the corner , leaving Dominicus quite down in the mouth . Here was a ...
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... deep stroke . fell Dominicus gave a fresh bound and flew faster than before , till , dim in the solitary cen- tre of the orchard , he saw the fated pear tree . One great branch stretched from the old con- torted trunk across the path ...
... deep stroke . fell Dominicus gave a fresh bound and flew faster than before , till , dim in the solitary cen- tre of the orchard , he saw the fated pear tree . One great branch stretched from the old con- torted trunk across the path ...
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... deep , Over thy curling waters sweep The fleets of half the world , There was a day- Nor distant far the time- When in thy solitude sublime , Save light canoe by artless savage plied , No sail was ever seen to skim thy billowy tide ...
... deep , Over thy curling waters sweep The fleets of half the world , There was a day- Nor distant far the time- When in thy solitude sublime , Save light canoe by artless savage plied , No sail was ever seen to skim thy billowy tide ...
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Popular passages
Page 99 - Why, well ; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 101 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 156 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
Page 29 - Oh ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 251 - Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that ! What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a
Page 434 - GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 462 - Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song, — where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on the Atlantic isles, — 'tis naught to me : Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste, as in the city full ; And where he vital breathes, there must be joy.
Page 462 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 298 - One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he ; The next with dirges due in sad array ' Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 298 - ... unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...