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... Miss Anneke ( Anna Cornelia , abbreviated ) . Anneke I thought a very pretty name too ; and some little advances were made towards an acquaintance by means of an offering of some fruit that I had gathered D 5 SATANSTOE . 57 town. Such a ...
... Miss Anneke ( Anna Cornelia , abbreviated ) . Anneke I thought a very pretty name too ; and some little advances were made towards an acquaintance by means of an offering of some fruit that I had gathered D 5 SATANSTOE . 57 town. Such a ...
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... Miss Anne- ke had ever seen a patroon ? " " which was the greatest personage ... Anneke's hand , and caused her to shed a tear . I took fire at this ... Anneke's en- treaties I went , and Pompey and Cæsar fol- lowed . We had both stripped ...
... Miss Anne- ke had ever seen a patroon ? " " which was the greatest personage ... Anneke's hand , and caused her to shed a tear . I took fire at this ... Anneke's en- treaties I went , and Pompey and Cæsar fol- lowed . We had both stripped ...
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... Anneke will be out here to enjoy their lilacs and roses . " " Oh , oh ! there is an Anneke , as well as the old gentleman . Pray , how old may Miss 104 SATANSTOE .
... Anneke will be out here to enjoy their lilacs and roses . " " Oh , oh ! there is an Anneke , as well as the old gentleman . Pray , how old may Miss 104 SATANSTOE .
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James Fenimore Cooper. the old gentleman . Pray , how old may Miss Anneke be , Master Dirck ? " As this question was asked , I turned to look my friend in the face , and I found that his handsome , smooth , fair Dutch lineaments were ...
James Fenimore Cooper. the old gentleman . Pray , how old may Miss Anneke be , Master Dirck ? " As this question was asked , I turned to look my friend in the face , and I found that his handsome , smooth , fair Dutch lineaments were ...
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... Her mother's father and my mother's mother were brother and sister . " " In that case I shall hope to have the honour of being introduced , one of these days , to Miss Anneke Mordaunt , who is just turned of 106 SATANSTOE .
... Her mother's father and my mother's mother were brother and sister . " " In that case I shall hope to have the honour of being introduced , one of these days , to Miss Anneke Mordaunt , who is just turned of 106 SATANSTOE .
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Page 183 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 1 - Indian queen (Pale Shebah with her braided hair) And many a barbarous form is seen To chide the man that lingers there. By midnight moons, o'er moistening dews; In habit for the chase arrayed, The hunter still the deer pursues, The hunter and the deer— a shade! And long shall timorous Fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.
Page 208 - Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be...
Page 148 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 242 - THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies ; All that we wish to stay, Tempts and then flies; What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare ! Love, how it sells poor bliss For proud despair ! But we, though soon they fall, Survive their joy and all Which ours we call.
Page 93 - ... know that we should meet no more; They tempted me, my beautiful ! for hunger's power is strong — They tempted me, my beautiful! but I have loved too long. Who said that I had given thee up? Who said that thou wert sold?
Page 153 - What ho ! Lord William, rise in haste ! The water saps thy walls ! ' He rose in haste, — beneath the walls He saw the flood appear; It hemm'd him round, — 'twas midnight now, No human aid was near.
Page 209 - Do you hear, let them be well used ; for they are the abstract, and brief chronicles, of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph, than their ill report while you live. Pol. My lord, I will use them according to their desert.
Page 270 - Paris, that corrupted town, How long in vain I wandered up and down. Where shameless Bacchus, with his drenching hoard, Cold from his cave usurps the morning board. London is lost in smoke and...