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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... turned to the world . Were all the houses of our friends unroofed by another Asmodeus , we should find that none of them was without its dark shadow , and we should realize the truth of the Italian proverb , which says , that there is a ...
... turned to the world . Were all the houses of our friends unroofed by another Asmodeus , we should find that none of them was without its dark shadow , and we should realize the truth of the Italian proverb , which says , that there is a ...
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... Turning musingly towards the porch , Hubert was startled by a gentle fluttering of wings , and there floated by a creature , flashing bright and seraph - like . He heeded not the youth , but hurried to his own em- bassy . First , the ...
... Turning musingly towards the porch , Hubert was startled by a gentle fluttering of wings , and there floated by a creature , flashing bright and seraph - like . He heeded not the youth , but hurried to his own em- bassy . First , the ...
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... succeed . " " That's past praying for , I fear , " said Beresford , “ if I may judge from certain little indications , and so forth , " . and Beresford turned on his heel and whistled himself out 10 THE YANKEE GIRL . 73.
... succeed . " " That's past praying for , I fear , " said Beresford , “ if I may judge from certain little indications , and so forth , " . and Beresford turned on his heel and whistled himself out 10 THE YANKEE GIRL . 73.
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An Offering for Christmas and the New Year David H. Williams. and Beresford turned on his heel and whistled himself out of the room , with a very contented and assured appearance . - - His confident expectations had arisen simply from ...
An Offering for Christmas and the New Year David H. Williams. and Beresford turned on his heel and whistled himself out of the room , with a very contented and assured appearance . - - His confident expectations had arisen simply from ...
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... turned from the abstruse researches of science to the refreshment of music . It is related of Maria Antoinette that , when standing before her inhu- man judges , she thrummed the bar with her fingers , as if it were a piano , and seemed ...
... turned from the abstruse researches of science to the refreshment of music . It is related of Maria Antoinette that , when standing before her inhu- man judges , she thrummed the bar with her fingers , as if it were a piano , and seemed ...
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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.