Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... glance upon his well worn garments , " that won't do I am perfectly aware that my external appearance is by no means pre- possessing , but what of that ? She must marry me and not my clothes . ' I cannot help it , if fate , in her ...
... glance upon his well worn garments , " that won't do I am perfectly aware that my external appearance is by no means pre- possessing , but what of that ? She must marry me and not my clothes . ' I cannot help it , if fate , in her ...
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... glance at an empty bottle which stood near us on a table . I took the hint , and called for wine . He swallowed a glass full , smacking his lips , and assuming a serious and important air , thus commenced the narrative of his literary ...
... glance at an empty bottle which stood near us on a table . I took the hint , and called for wine . He swallowed a glass full , smacking his lips , and assuming a serious and important air , thus commenced the narrative of his literary ...
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... glance Draws and reveals that subtle power that doth Redeem us from our gross mortality . " I followed my poor friend to the grave , one soft summer afternoon , with a heavy heart , and have since perused this little picture of his ...
... glance Draws and reveals that subtle power that doth Redeem us from our gross mortality . " I followed my poor friend to the grave , one soft summer afternoon , with a heavy heart , and have since perused this little picture of his ...
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... glance at nature through a prism , and behold fragments of trees , walls , rivers , and houses turned upside down , in grotesque groups , and colored with strange hues . Set a nervous , clear headed person to transact business with one ...
... glance at nature through a prism , and behold fragments of trees , walls , rivers , and houses turned upside down , in grotesque groups , and colored with strange hues . Set a nervous , clear headed person to transact business with one ...
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... glance , yet so thoughtless and destitute of that sort of prudénce which an individual applies to the proper administration of his own affairs , that the weakest hand may sometimes lead him astray , far he has a great propensity to ...
... glance , yet so thoughtless and destitute of that sort of prudénce which an individual applies to the proper administration of his own affairs , that the weakest hand may sometimes lead him astray , far he has a great propensity to ...
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Page 70 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
Page 195 - But rise; let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere; but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe...
Page 7 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 98 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 192 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 158 - My only strength and stay. Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
Page 188 - That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 89 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 153 - And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged...
Page 3 - The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes and gives.