Cooper's Works: The Wing-and-WingJames G. Gregory (successor to W.A. Townsend), 1857 - American fiction |
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... Italy , would be an affectation of which we have no idea of being guilty . It is true - nay , it is proba- ble - that we may render the execution unequal to the design , but there can be no great harm in nobly daring , except to him who ...
... Italy , would be an affectation of which we have no idea of being guilty . It is true - nay , it is proba- ble - that we may render the execution unequal to the design , but there can be no great harm in nobly daring , except to him who ...
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... Italy , than in the Bay of Biscay and the British Channel , was the construction of the vessel in question ; a ... Italian , concerning her destination and object . This observation , with its accompanying discourse , occurred on ...
... Italy , than in the Bay of Biscay and the British Channel , was the construction of the vessel in question ; a ... Italian , concerning her destination and object . This observation , with its accompanying discourse , occurred on ...
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... Italian dependency , as with any other purpose . At the moment of which we are writing , however , but a dozen living beings were visible in or about all these craft . The intelligence that a strange lugger , resembling the one ...
... Italian dependency , as with any other purpose . At the moment of which we are writing , however , but a dozen living beings were visible in or about all these craft . The intelligence that a strange lugger , resembling the one ...
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... Italians treated their aged seaman , on this occasion ; none bawling out their questions , and all using the greatest care not to get in front of his person , lest they might intercept his means of observation . Five or six old sailors ...
... Italians treated their aged seaman , on this occasion ; none bawling out their questions , and all using the greatest care not to get in front of his person , lest they might intercept his means of observation . Five or six old sailors ...
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... Italy that has a reputation second only to that of Rome . Of course , if any girl in Porto Ferrajo could imagine the character of the stranger , it must be Ghita ; and it was on this supposi- tion that she had unwittingly , and , if the ...
... Italy that has a reputation second only to that of Rome . Of course , if any girl in Porto Ferrajo could imagine the character of the stranger , it must be Ghita ; and it was on this supposi- tion that she had unwittingly , and , if the ...
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Page 401 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 7 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 189 - Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd...
Page 389 - God is also in sleep, and dreams advise. Which he hath sent propitious some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep : but now lead on ; In me is no delay ; with thee to go Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou. Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence...
Page 295 - WHITE as a white sail on a dusky sea, When half the horizon's clouded and half free, Fluttering between the dun wave and the sky, Is hope's last gleam in man's extremity.
Page 188 - If ever you have looked on better days, If ever been where bells have knolled to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Page 322 - I have no dread, And feel the curse to have no natural fear, Nor fluttering throb, that beats with hopes or wishes, Or lurking love of something on the earth.