The Token and Atlantic Souvenir: An Offering for Christmas and the New YearDavid H. Williams David H. Williams, 1842 - Всего страниц: 320 |
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... head suddenly as he came opposite the lighted windows of a very handsome house , his eyes were involuntarily at- tracted by a scene , which made him pause for a moment to behold it , though he felt conscious , that there was something ...
... head suddenly as he came opposite the lighted windows of a very handsome house , his eyes were involuntarily at- tracted by a scene , which made him pause for a moment to behold it , though he felt conscious , that there was something ...
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... head the dazzling sunbeams lingered and played long after they had bid adieu to all around me . Where am I , was my first thought , and what do I behold ? I am in the very place where Voltaire spent the last twenty years of his life . I ...
... head the dazzling sunbeams lingered and played long after they had bid adieu to all around me . Where am I , was my first thought , and what do I behold ? I am in the very place where Voltaire spent the last twenty years of his life . I ...
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... head and visage of Voltaire were strongly expres- sive of his character . As we were looking at his bust in the corner of his bed - room , and marking the smoth- ered guile under his snakish eye and grinning lip , one of our company ...
... head and visage of Voltaire were strongly expres- sive of his character . As we were looking at his bust in the corner of his bed - room , and marking the smoth- ered guile under his snakish eye and grinning lip , one of our company ...
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... head . At the conclusion of the play , all the actors and actresses surrounded his bust upon the stage and threw garlands of laurel upon it , while some verses composed to his praise by a nobleman were rehearsed , amidst the pealing ...
... head . At the conclusion of the play , all the actors and actresses surrounded his bust upon the stage and threw garlands of laurel upon it , while some verses composed to his praise by a nobleman were rehearsed , amidst the pealing ...
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... head on its stalk ; how sweetly it exhales its last odors ; how peacefully it fades ! -Nature dies gently . - Listen ! Do you hear any discordance in her parting sighs ? They are all harmo- nious ; as musical , though with a different ...
... head on its stalk ; how sweetly it exhales its last odors ; how peacefully it fades ! -Nature dies gently . - Listen ! Do you hear any discordance in her parting sighs ? They are all harmo- nious ; as musical , though with a different ...
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Acadians Adah Adelbert Anapestic Armais arms avalanches beautiful beneath Beresford bloom breath bright brow cast castle child Chuno dark daughter death deep dreams dwell earth Eolian eyes face fade fair father fear feel Ferney flowers gazed glory grass green Hafez hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven Hejâz hope hour human Israel Jonathan Parsons lady lake land leaves light Lilla look Louisburgh maiden Martigny Mary mind Mont Blanc moon morning mother mountain nature never night o'er Osram pale passed Pharaoh Rawdon rocks rose scene seemed shade silent Simplon Pass sleep smile snow soft song soul sound spirit stood summer summit sweet Switzerland tears tell thee thine thing THOMAS BIRCH THOMAS GRAY thou thought traveller trees trembling truth village voice Voltaire WAMPANOAGS wave wild Wolfgang word youth Zilpah
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Стр. 104 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
Стр. 102 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Стр. 103 - The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild ; Softest grave of a thousand fears, Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers.
Стр. 93 - ... much in this point from one another. Now opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind, generally increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure.
Стр. 274 - ... in their attempts to foment disaffection. The English regarded colonies, even when settled by men from their own land, only as sources of emolument to the mother country ; colonists as an inferior caste. The Acadians were despised because they were helpless. Ignorant of the laws of their conquerors, they were not educated to the knowledge, the defence, and the love of English liberties ; they knew not the way to the throne, and, given up to military masters, had no redress in civil tribunals....
Стр. 293 - Alas! for them — their day is o'er, Their fires are out from hill and shore, No more for them the wild deer bounds. The plough is on their hunting grounds; The pale man's axe rings in their woods, The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods, Their pleasant springs are dry " ' I turn gladly to the progress of our civil history.
Стр. 104 - More, more, I prithee, more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.
Стр. 104 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Стр. 224 - Lord for protection, they betook themselves to rest: the pilgrim they laid in a large upper chamber, whose window opened towards the sun-rising: the name of the chamber was Peace, where he slept till break of day, and then he awoke and sang, Where am I now?
Стр. 281 - A beautiful and fertile tract of country was reduced to a solitude. There was none left round the ashes of the cottages of the Acadians but the faithful watch-dog, vainly seeking the hands that fed him. Thickets of forest-trees choked their orchards; the ocean broke over their neglected dikes, and desolated their meadows.