The Mysterious Man: A NovelNewby, 1844 |
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... true story of a ghost - a story of modern date , not pertaining to the past days of which we have been speaking , but extending down well nigh into the present . Jacob Wright , a man of the present genera- tion 198 THE MYSTERIOUS MAN .
... true story of a ghost - a story of modern date , not pertaining to the past days of which we have been speaking , but extending down well nigh into the present . Jacob Wright , a man of the present genera- tion 198 THE MYSTERIOUS MAN .
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A Novel Frederick Chamier. Jacob Wright , a man of the present genera- tion , had received much of the spiritual educa- tion of the past . As a child he had attained to a reasonable share of ghostly knowledge , was well versed in the ...
A Novel Frederick Chamier. Jacob Wright , a man of the present genera- tion , had received much of the spiritual educa- tion of the past . As a child he had attained to a reasonable share of ghostly knowledge , was well versed in the ...
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... Jacob dreaded the night he took every opportunity in the day to procure odd volumes of the pernicious class of ... Jacob actually got into the habit of lying awake from one to two when he quietly went to sleep again . * * Fact . But it ...
... Jacob dreaded the night he took every opportunity in the day to procure odd volumes of the pernicious class of ... Jacob actually got into the habit of lying awake from one to two when he quietly went to sleep again . * * Fact . But it ...
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... Jacob Wright , a very prey to visionary terrors when he was sent to a big boy's school . The school - house , unfortunately for him , adjoined a church , and the big boys used to tell him to look out into the church- yard when it was ...
... Jacob Wright , a very prey to visionary terrors when he was sent to a big boy's school . The school - house , unfortunately for him , adjoined a church , and the big boys used to tell him to look out into the church- yard when it was ...
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... Jacob Wright indeed , it is well that they do so - but to proceed , for we would only offer a sketch of our hero . Jacob then grew up , and as he was educated for the scholastic profession , into that highly honorable line of life he ...
... Jacob Wright indeed , it is well that they do so - but to proceed , for we would only offer a sketch of our hero . Jacob then grew up , and as he was educated for the scholastic profession , into that highly honorable line of life he ...
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Стр. 168 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Стр. 37 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Стр. 127 - Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.
Стр. 108 - Jack! when delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension!
Стр. 210 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Стр. 197 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Стр. 269 - God ! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood...
Стр. 173 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Стр. 26 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home! A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which seek through the world is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home!
Стр. 213 - And where's my son Fred?" asked His Lordship. "I am not your son's keeper, my Lord," said I. "No! By the bye," inquired His Lordship, "how is this? I wanted to call upon you about it. I never heard of such a thing, in the whole course of my life! What the Devil can you possibly have to say against my son Fred?" "Good heavens! my Lord, you frighten me! I never recollect to have said a single word against your son, as long as I have live'd. Why should I?