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... miles . The railway carriages , always there called cars , consist of long rooms , rather like a dining - room of a steam- packet , with a stove inside , often a most desirable addition in the American winter ; and you can change your ...
... miles . The railway carriages , always there called cars , consist of long rooms , rather like a dining - room of a steam- packet , with a stove inside , often a most desirable addition in the American winter ; and you can change your ...
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... miles in the interior of America , which , thirty years before , had no existence , thus coming in by the merest chance , I saw upon the drop - scene the most accurate representation of my own house , Naworth Castle , in Cumberland ...
... miles in the interior of America , which , thirty years before , had no existence , thus coming in by the merest chance , I saw upon the drop - scene the most accurate representation of my own house , Naworth Castle , in Cumberland ...
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... miles off , and the growing excitement of the nearer approach , gave to the whole drive a most stirring and enjoyable character . When I arrived at the hotel , the Cataract House , I would not anticipate by any moonlight glimpses the ...
... miles off , and the growing excitement of the nearer approach , gave to the whole drive a most stirring and enjoyable character . When I arrived at the hotel , the Cataract House , I would not anticipate by any moonlight glimpses the ...
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... miles , or a flour mill within fifty ; he lived entirely sur- rounded by Indians , who have now disappeared . On some oc- casion , there had been a review of a corps of militia . A neigh- bouring Indian Chief had been present , and was ...
... miles , or a flour mill within fifty ; he lived entirely sur- rounded by Indians , who have now disappeared . On some oc- casion , there had been a review of a corps of militia . A neigh- bouring Indian Chief had been present , and was ...
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... miles , pushes its green fringe into the wide harbour , with its glancing waters and graceful shipping , and the limber , long raking masts , which look so different from our own , and the soft swelling outline of the receding shores ...
... miles , pushes its green fringe into the wide harbour , with its glancing waters and graceful shipping , and the limber , long raking masts , which look so different from our own , and the soft swelling outline of the receding shores ...
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Page 22 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 14 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 28 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 14 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Page 26 - Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Page 67 - ... the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing : which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Page 29 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 30 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 22 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 13 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.