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... wish to purchase an excellent violin ? " No , " harshly exclaimed the mate , with a voice which the nightly mist and the damps of many a mid - watch had rendered hoarse and hollow , " no , my old gentleman ; but if half - a - crown can ...
... wish to purchase an excellent violin ? " No , " harshly exclaimed the mate , with a voice which the nightly mist and the damps of many a mid - watch had rendered hoarse and hollow , " no , my old gentleman ; but if half - a - crown can ...
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... wishes . Fond and sweetly attaching are the ties of brotherhood , fabricated by Nature's hand ; but when consanguinity throws not a certain reserve over our looks , our thoughts , and our desires , it requires nice dis- crimination to ...
... wishes . Fond and sweetly attaching are the ties of brotherhood , fabricated by Nature's hand ; but when consanguinity throws not a certain reserve over our looks , our thoughts , and our desires , it requires nice dis- crimination to ...
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... wish'd - for strand— The parch'd and desert trav'ller may delight When the cool spring hath met his aching sight- But their's is not the blessed joy they know Who , griev'd to madness , feel the first tear flow . The drop which mercy ...
... wish'd - for strand— The parch'd and desert trav'ller may delight When the cool spring hath met his aching sight- But their's is not the blessed joy they know Who , griev'd to madness , feel the first tear flow . The drop which mercy ...
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... wish that thrills me so With tenderest transport , could but be , And that again my lot were cast , To share , dear girl , an hour with thee . " An hour with thee ! " - What , ' midst the world , - Its bustle , and its brightest round ...
... wish that thrills me so With tenderest transport , could but be , And that again my lot were cast , To share , dear girl , an hour with thee . " An hour with thee ! " - What , ' midst the world , - Its bustle , and its brightest round ...
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... wish above all things to encourage . Reason , ' say they , will guide our children when they come to the use of it ; and , before that , their faults cannot be very great . ' They avoid compulsory measures , and allow the boys to act ...
... wish above all things to encourage . Reason , ' say they , will guide our children when they come to the use of it ; and , before that , their faults cannot be very great . ' They avoid compulsory measures , and allow the boys to act ...
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Page 308 - tis mockery all ! — A faithless mist, a desert-vapour, wearing The brightness of clear waters, thus to cheat The thirst that semblance kindled ! — Thete is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within A mother's heart.
Page 226 - The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the correi...
Page 130 - There is a home for weary souls, By sin and sorrow driven ; When tossed on life's tempestuous shoals, Where storms arise, and ocean rolls, And all is drear but heaven. 4 There faith lifts up her cheerful eye...
Page 85 - There is nothing, my Lord, in this extract which, in a literary sense, can at all interest you ; but it may, perhaps, appear to you worthy of reflection how deep and expansive a concern for the happiness of others the Christian faith can awaken in the midst of youth and prosperity. Here is nothing poetical and splendid, as in the expostulatory homage of M.
Page 84 - Since the second anniversary of her decease, I have read some papers which no one had seen during her life, and which contain her most secret thoughts. I am induced to communicate to your Lordship a passage from these papers, which, there is no doubt, refers to yourself; as I have more than once heard the writer mention your agility on the rocks at Hastings.
Page 185 - My Lord, — Since last I had the honour of addressing you from this place, a series of eventful years has elapsed, but none without some mark and note of your rising glory. " The military triumphs which your valour has achieved upon the banks of the Douro and the Tagus, of the Ebro and the Garonne, have called forth the spontaneous shouts of admiring nations. Those triumphs it is needless on this day to recount. Their names...
Page 185 - I hope it will not be deemed presumptuous in me to take this opportunity of expressing my admiration of the great efforts made by this House and the country at a moment of unexampled pressure and difficulty, in order to support the great scale of operations by which the contest was brought to so fortunate a termination.
Page 27 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 130 - There, fragrant flowers, immortal, bloom, And joys supreme are given ; There, rays divine disperse the gloom : Beyond the confines of the tomb Appears the dawn of heaven.
Page 86 - Then with an old friend I talk of our youth — How 'twas gladsome, but often Foolish, forsooth: But gladsome, gladsome! Or to get merry We sing some old rhyme, That made the wood ring again In summer time — Sweet summer time!