The Talisman for ...William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck Elam Bliss, 1827 - Gift books |
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... sides striped with brighter and more beautiful colours . There is a dignity in his port , and a pride in his demeanour , which have obtained for him the epithet of royal , and which , in the opinion of some , give him at least equal ...
... sides striped with brighter and more beautiful colours . There is a dignity in his port , and a pride in his demeanour , which have obtained for him the epithet of royal , and which , in the opinion of some , give him at least equal ...
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... side , until at length they came to the horizontal rafters of bamboo , several of which they took in their hands and ... sides of the room , and his claws sometimes raking the wall from the top to the bottom 14 AN ADVENTURE IN THE EAST ...
... side , until at length they came to the horizontal rafters of bamboo , several of which they took in their hands and ... sides of the room , and his claws sometimes raking the wall from the top to the bottom 14 AN ADVENTURE IN THE EAST ...
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... side of this path the ground , covered with low shrubs , descended more than twenty feet to the bed of the river , which was nearly dry ; and on the other , a strip of rank tropical vegetation separated it from a luxuriant wood of ...
... side of this path the ground , covered with low shrubs , descended more than twenty feet to the bed of the river , which was nearly dry ; and on the other , a strip of rank tropical vegetation separated it from a luxuriant wood of ...
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... , one after the other , my legs and arms to assure myself that they still belonged to my person . I passed first right and then my left hand over my breast and sides , and then held them up to my eyes 20 AN ADVENTURE IN THE EAST INDIES .
... , one after the other , my legs and arms to assure myself that they still belonged to my person . I passed first right and then my left hand over my breast and sides , and then held them up to my eyes 20 AN ADVENTURE IN THE EAST INDIES .
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William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck. sides , and then held them up to my eyes to see if they were not covered with my own blood . I raised myself on my elbows and found that I was lying in the dry bed ...
William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck. sides , and then held them up to my eyes to see if they were not covered with my own blood . I raised myself on my elbows and found that I was lying in the dry bed ...
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Page ii - Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ; " and also to an act. entitled, " An act, supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietor? of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 89 - Tis she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd ' Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it in heaven a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a Lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those...
Page 193 - Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young...
Page 193 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
Page 262 - Come, all ye quack bards, and ye quacking divines, Come, and dance on the spot where your tyrant reclines When satire and censure encircled his throne, I fear'd for your safety, I fear'd for my own : But now he is gone, and we want a detector, Our Dodds...
Page ii - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Page 192 - WILLIAM TELL. CHAINS may subdue the feeble spirit, but thee, TELL, of the iron heart! they could not tame ! For thou wert of the mountains ; they proclaim The everlasting creed of liberty. That creed is written on the untrampled snow, Thundered by torrents which no power can hold, Save that of God, when he sends forth his cold, And breathed by winds that through the free heave*, blow.
Page 195 - And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side : In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief : Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that young friend of ours, So gentle...
Page 114 - And I wait, with a thrill in every vein, For the coming of the hurricane! And lo! on the wing of the heavy gales, Through the boundless arch of heaven he sails; Silent and slow, and terribly strong, The mighty shadow is borne along, Like the dark eternity to come...
Page 115 - Darker — still darker ! the whirlwinds bear The dust of the plains to the middle air : And hark to the crashing, long and loud, Of the chariot of God in the thunder-cloud ! You may trace its path by the flashes that start From the rapid wheels where'er they dart, As the fire-bolts leap to the world below, And flood the skies with a lurid glow. What roar is that 1 — 'tis the rain that breaks, In torrents away...