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affection ALEXANDER DYCE Aram's Augh beautiful BEN JONSON bless Boteler breath brooklet Bunting calm character Clarke corporal corporal's countenance Courtland cried crime Daniel Clarke dark Darkmans door dread earl earth Edmund Evans Ellinor Elmore emotion Eugene Aram eyes face fate father fear feel felt gaze gentle Grassdale hand happy hear heard heart Heaven honour hope horse hour Houseman Jacobina JULES VERNE Knaresborough Knaresbro Lambourn larned leave Lester lips lived look lord LORD LYTTON Madeline Madeline's marriage master mind murder nature neighbour never night once passed passion pause perhaps Pertinax Peter Dealtry poor quiet replied round scarcely scene seemed Sir John Gilbert Sir Peter sister smile solitary soul speak spirit spot squire strange stranger student tell thee thou thought town turned uttered village voice walk Walter window words young
Popular passages
Page xxi - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Page xx - Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
Page 1 - The Christian Year. Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holy Days throughout the Year.
Page 54 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear...
Page 426 - Time goes by turns, and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better hap to worse. The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow ; She draws her favours to the lowest ebb ; Her tides have equal times to come and go; Her loom doth weave the...
Page 320 - WE have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Page 396 - ... being not only places of religious retirement, but of burial too. And it has scarce or never been heard of, but that every cell now known contains or contained these relics of humanity — some mutilated, and some entire.
Page 206 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page 397 - My lord, must some of the living, if it promotes some interest, be made answerable for all the bones that earth has concealed, and chance exposed ? And might not a place where bones lay be mentioned by a person by chance as well as found by a...
Page 108 - We, Hermia, like two artificial gods Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition...