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... turn them adrift to starve , the instant your turn is served ! —And moreover , " says he , " have you not , by your premature dis- banding of the forces , limited your means of subduing popular discontent ? " - " Happy man , " continued ...
... turn them adrift to starve , the instant your turn is served ! —And moreover , " says he , " have you not , by your premature dis- banding of the forces , limited your means of subduing popular discontent ? " - " Happy man , " continued ...
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... turning quick upon me with the most civil triumph . " Strange ! " quoth I , debating the matter with myself , " that one - and - twenty miles sailing should give a man these rights . I'll look into them . ” The novelty of every thing ...
... turning quick upon me with the most civil triumph . " Strange ! " quoth I , debating the matter with myself , " that one - and - twenty miles sailing should give a man these rights . I'll look into them . ” The novelty of every thing ...
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... turning to the lady at the counter ; " I'm sure , when I ordered them , I told you not to make them very short . " " Why , ma'am , " replied the obsequious Mrs Puckerwell , assuming an air of pleased importance , and retiring backwards ...
... turning to the lady at the counter ; " I'm sure , when I ordered them , I told you not to make them very short . " " Why , ma'am , " replied the obsequious Mrs Puckerwell , assuming an air of pleased importance , and retiring backwards ...
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... turn away their ser vants for cheating them , when their first lessons of deceit have been learnt from themselves . I have heard my lady say , " O the tiresome creature , why should I be tea- zed with her ! " and immediately after , she ...
... turn away their ser vants for cheating them , when their first lessons of deceit have been learnt from themselves . I have heard my lady say , " O the tiresome creature , why should I be tea- zed with her ! " and immediately after , she ...
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... turn'd with me to Mosellay ! Could not the breeze , with musky odours fraught , The flying step restrain , -the wandering thought ? Could not those lovely maids of sable dye , Whose bending forms bewitch'd the roving eye , As , clad in ...
... turn'd with me to Mosellay ! Could not the breeze , with musky odours fraught , The flying step restrain , -the wandering thought ? Could not those lovely maids of sable dye , Whose bending forms bewitch'd the roving eye , As , clad in ...
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Стр. 213 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Стр. 46 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Стр. 30 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Стр. 32 - And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Стр. 174 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Стр. 175 - Fly to the desert, fly with me, Our Arab tents are rude for thee ; But oh ! the choice what heart can doubt Of tents with love, or thrones without ? Our rocks are rough, but smiling there Th' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less For flowering in a wilderness.
Стр. 33 - In chimney corner seek domestic joys — I love a prince will bid the bottle pass, Exchanging with his subjects glance and glass ; In fitting time, can, gayest of the gay, Keep up the jest, and mingle in the lay — Such Monarchs best our free-born humours suit, But Despots must be stately, stern, and mute.
Стр. 213 - He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him...
Стр. 175 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...