Literary Port Folio, Issues 1-26E. Littell, 1830 |
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... happy , but that I might be a cold corpse ; and more than once I thought of plunging in the sea , and so ending my life : but I remembered the morning and the sink- ing wretches , and the cold grasp on my arm , — and I could not do it ...
... happy , but that I might be a cold corpse ; and more than once I thought of plunging in the sea , and so ending my life : but I remembered the morning and the sink- ing wretches , and the cold grasp on my arm , — and I could not do it ...
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... happy age , Whose hope is from above , A father communes with the page Of Heaven's recorded love . II . Pure fell the beam , and meekly bright , On his grey holy hair , And touch'd the book with tenderest light , As if its shrine were ...
... happy age , Whose hope is from above , A father communes with the page Of Heaven's recorded love . II . Pure fell the beam , and meekly bright , On his grey holy hair , And touch'd the book with tenderest light , As if its shrine were ...
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... happy , or who would see pleasure and gentle feelings kept alive by the purest means , they are the Offer- ings , and Souvenirs , and Amulets which they may best give as tokens of their friendship , or keep as safeguards against all the ...
... happy , or who would see pleasure and gentle feelings kept alive by the purest means , they are the Offer- ings , and Souvenirs , and Amulets which they may best give as tokens of their friendship , or keep as safeguards against all the ...
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... happy to procure for my dear girl a frequent participation of the gaiety en- joyed by the younger members of the house , and grateful for the innumerable kindnesses which we received from the elders , we soon became familiar with the ...
... happy to procure for my dear girl a frequent participation of the gaiety en- joyed by the younger members of the house , and grateful for the innumerable kindnesses which we received from the elders , we soon became familiar with the ...
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... happy returns of the day . The wife , es , but that they had come to scuffling - he taking to boxing , and she to pinching - though in a far less amicable manner than is practised by the takers of snuff . On the present differ- erce ...
... happy returns of the day . The wife , es , but that they had come to scuffling - he taking to boxing , and she to pinching - though in a far less amicable manner than is practised by the takers of snuff . On the present differ- erce ...
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Page 67 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Page 68 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power ; not one faileth.
Page 77 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
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Page 67 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
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Page 48 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
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Page 68 - Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint ; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.