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... gave 193 Jonah's Gourd 596 There is an eye whose shaded light 191 To the oak that near my cottage grew 390 Keepsake , the 608 Tomb of love 593 Lalla Rookh extracts from 578 , 675 Lines by a Mother 194 Vanity of Life 358 -- on a goblet ...
... gave 193 Jonah's Gourd 596 There is an eye whose shaded light 191 To the oak that near my cottage grew 390 Keepsake , the 608 Tomb of love 593 Lalla Rookh extracts from 578 , 675 Lines by a Mother 194 Vanity of Life 358 -- on a goblet ...
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... gave couldst have seen this tear shining on thy the mortal blow to her peace , but she Would not reproach her guilty lover with his crime . I will not change like him , ' she exclaimed , but I will no longer love . Then she assumed an ...
... gave couldst have seen this tear shining on thy the mortal blow to her peace , but she Would not reproach her guilty lover with his crime . I will not change like him , ' she exclaimed , but I will no longer love . Then she assumed an ...
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... gave the word of marched nine leagues , about four o'clock command ; the words he said to our in the afternoon ; then we was in front regiment were this 95th , unfix your of the enemy , but the rain fell so hard swords , left face and ...
... gave the word of marched nine leagues , about four o'clock command ; the words he said to our in the afternoon ; then we was in front regiment were this 95th , unfix your of the enemy , but the rain fell so hard swords , left face and ...
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... gave occa- column , and the moment they pierced it , sion for the sign of the Bull and Gate , the Scotch Greys dashed in to their sup- as descriptive of an inn in Holborn , ori- Irt , when both these gallant corps ginally meant for ...
... gave occa- column , and the moment they pierced it , sion for the sign of the Bull and Gate , the Scotch Greys dashed in to their sup- as descriptive of an inn in Holborn , ori- Irt , when both these gallant corps ginally meant for ...
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... gave time to her friend Mr. Whyte says , instructions in the same art to a select " Last Monday evening , Charles , for the number of private pupils . Of the pro- first time , exhibited himself as a little gress of young Sheridan at ...
... gave time to her friend Mr. Whyte says , instructions in the same art to a select " Last Monday evening , Charles , for the number of private pupils . Of the pro- first time , exhibited himself as a little gress of young Sheridan at ...
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Page 117 - Twas still some solace, in the dearth Of the pure elements of earth. To hearken to each other's speech, And each turn comforter to each With some new hope, or legend old, Or song heroically bold ; But even these at length grew cold. Our voices took a dreary tone, An echo of the dungeon-stone, A grating sound— not full and free As they of yore were wont to be: It might be fancy — but to me They never sounded like our own...
Page 195 - But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing Of gentle breath and hue.
Page 405 - The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter.
Page 117 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day; Sounding o'er our heads it...
Page 119 - The last — the sole — the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.
Page 235 - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister.
Page 117 - And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away...
Page 445 - The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over me.
Page 117 - Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls, A thousand feet in depth below, Its massy waters meet and flow; Thus much the fathom-line was sent...
Page 195 - Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.