Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... Fear on the face of the globe , and could put a whole army to flight by just offering to draw his sword . It was my design artfully to lead him into the greatest extremes of danger , and then artfully to lead him out again ; but in the ...
... Fear on the face of the globe , and could put a whole army to flight by just offering to draw his sword . It was my design artfully to lead him into the greatest extremes of danger , and then artfully to lead him out again ; but in the ...
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... Fear faded away in the dazzling brilliancy of that smi- ling multitude , and my soul floated about in its delicious element of triumphant hope , with a sensation such as arises from a good dose of exhilarating gas . 6 " Alas ! ' twas ...
... Fear faded away in the dazzling brilliancy of that smi- ling multitude , and my soul floated about in its delicious element of triumphant hope , with a sensation such as arises from a good dose of exhilarating gas . 6 " Alas ! ' twas ...
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... humble opinion . " I fear some day he will knock his antagonist down , telling him at the same time " he should be very sorry to offend him . " ac- NEWSPAPERS . FOREIGNERS laugh at the Americans for being fond AFFECTATION . 19.
... humble opinion . " I fear some day he will knock his antagonist down , telling him at the same time " he should be very sorry to offend him . " ac- NEWSPAPERS . FOREIGNERS laugh at the Americans for being fond AFFECTATION . 19.
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... fear nothing but bodily pain . The rest - feeling , affec- tion , hope - are all fancy . Is it not better to be thus here , sitting in peace , than writhing and quivering on the dreadful rack ? **** A calm has stolen over me . I feel no ...
... fear nothing but bodily pain . The rest - feeling , affec- tion , hope - are all fancy . Is it not better to be thus here , sitting in peace , than writhing and quivering on the dreadful rack ? **** A calm has stolen over me . I feel no ...
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... fears , never offend any body , never get offended ; who would not be an editor ? " FAMILIAR CHIT - CHAT . " WHAT a medley lies on my table this morning . Here's a work in sheets - London edition - the only copy that ever crossed the ...
... fears , never offend any body , never get offended ; who would not be an editor ? " FAMILIAR CHIT - CHAT . " WHAT a medley lies on my table this morning . Here's a work in sheets - London edition - the only copy that ever crossed the ...
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Page 70 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
Page 195 - But rise; let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere; but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe...
Page 7 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 98 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 192 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 158 - My only strength and stay. Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
Page 188 - That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 89 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 153 - And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged...
Page 3 - The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes and gives.