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... seen fixed in prayer , and which now - a thought paler , perhaps wore the self - same calm expression . With what intense agony I peered into the mass , to see if the little girl , her grand - daughter , were with her ; and , oh ! the ...
... seen fixed in prayer , and which now - a thought paler , perhaps wore the self - same calm expression . With what intense agony I peered into the mass , to see if the little girl , her grand - daughter , were with her ; and , oh ! the ...
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... seen ex- cept in the women of the East . Her arms were covered with rich bracelets , and were of Yielding to these entreaties , and amused at the most perfect form ; her hands long and the prospect of a novel scene , we mounted our ...
... seen ex- cept in the women of the East . Her arms were covered with rich bracelets , and were of Yielding to these entreaties , and amused at the most perfect form ; her hands long and the prospect of a novel scene , we mounted our ...
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... seen about ; and they laughed and mocked at her , as , holding her bonnet down with one hand , to prevent its absolutely giving way before the wind , she endeavored to carry her parcel , and keep her shawl from flying up with the other ...
... seen about ; and they laughed and mocked at her , as , holding her bonnet down with one hand , to prevent its absolutely giving way before the wind , she endeavored to carry her parcel , and keep her shawl from flying up with the other ...
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... seen life upon one side , and that its fairest side - as it presents itself in the country . You can not imagine what a dreadful thing it may prove in large cities . It can not enter into the head of man to conceive the horrible con ...
... seen life upon one side , and that its fairest side - as it presents itself in the country . You can not imagine what a dreadful thing it may prove in large cities . It can not enter into the head of man to conceive the horrible con ...
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... seen . lava ran in a stream fifty feet deep , and four miles wide , overwhelming in its course fourteen towns and villages ; and had it not separated before reaching Catania , that city would have been virtually annihilated as were ...
... seen . lava ran in a stream fifty feet deep , and four miles wide , overwhelming in its course fourteen towns and villages ; and had it not separated before reaching Catania , that city would have been virtually annihilated as were ...
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Page 73 - But while she was still very young, oh, very, very young, the sister drooped, and came to be so weak that she could no longer stand in the window at night; and then the child looked sadly out by himself, and when he saw the star, turned round and said to the patient pale face on the bed, " I see the star! " and then a smile would come upon the face, and a little weak voice used to say, " God bless my brother and the star!
Page 363 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 240 - Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of the Lord : and let not the sin of his mother be done away.
Page 117 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the commonwealth ; that let no man in this world expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for...
Page 294 - ... both of the King and his Council, if you would but do as all the Bishops and best learned of this realm have done.
Page 444 - Towards the morning of the 13th of November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon which was not filled every instant with bodies or falling stars. All the meteors left luminous traces or phosphorescent bands behind them,...
Page 273 - Charles Lamb had a head worthy of Aristotle, with as fine a heart as ever beat in human bosom, and limbs very fragile to sustain it. There was a caricature of him sold in the shops, which pretended to be a likeness. Procter went into the shop in a passion, and asked the man what he meant by putting forth such a libel. The man apologized, and said that the artist meant no offence.
Page 73 - He grew to be a young man, and was busy at his books when an old servant came to him and said: "Thy mother is no more. I bring her blessing on her darling son!" Again at night he saw the star, and all that former company. Said his sister's angel to the leader: "Is my brother come?
Page 239 - Wherefore, Mr. Speaker, her Majesty's Pleasure is, that if you perceive any idle heads, which will not stick to hazard their own Estates ; which will meddle with reforming the Church, and transforming the Commonwealth ; and do exhibit any Bills to such purpose, that you receive them not, until they be viewed and considered by those, who, it is fitter should consider of such things, and can better judge of them.
Page 115 - Nay, it were better to meet some dangers half way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches ; for if a man watch too long, it is odds he will fall asleep. On the other side, to be deceived with two long shadows, (as some have been, when the moon was low, and shone on their enemies...