The Talisman for ...William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck Elam Bliss, 1827 - Gift books |
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... turned to mud , in half a day ; Even heaven's own glorious azure be o'ercast ; Imperial ermine be with dust defiled , And China's finest crockery cracked and spoiled . Thou snow - white altar ! which , to friendship rear'd , With ...
... turned to mud , in half a day ; Even heaven's own glorious azure be o'ercast ; Imperial ermine be with dust defiled , And China's finest crockery cracked and spoiled . Thou snow - white altar ! which , to friendship rear'd , With ...
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... turned and looked down the bed of the river , directing my eye gradually along its course as far as it could be followed . There was no sign of life to be discovered even there , except that just below me I saw , now and then , a lizard ...
... turned and looked down the bed of the river , directing my eye gradually along its course as far as it could be followed . There was no sign of life to be discovered even there , except that just below me I saw , now and then , a lizard ...
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... turned my head to see if it was actually on my body , and moved , 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 ...
... turned my head to see if it was actually on my body , and moved , 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 ...
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... turned wise brokers ' heads . Such is the power of foreign tongues and foreign titles , foreign jewels and foreign jokes , foreign fashions and foreign fiddling . There is your heroic humbug , as your Waterloo general ; your scientific ...
... turned wise brokers ' heads . Such is the power of foreign tongues and foreign titles , foreign jewels and foreign jokes , foreign fashions and foreign fiddling . There is your heroic humbug , as your Waterloo general ; your scientific ...
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... one of the members from this county ; and you may depend upon me , my old fellow , for any odd jobs at Albany . Though you have never turned out at our trainings , I guess I can get you brevetted 78 MR . DE VIELLECOUR.
... one of the members from this county ; and you may depend upon me , my old fellow , for any odd jobs at Albany . Though you have never turned out at our trainings , I guess I can get you brevetted 78 MR . DE VIELLECOUR.
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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...