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... live as a gentle- man on that . I am going over old ground , for I fancy you are aware that I soon found I must sell my in- terest in your annuity . With the little capital this gave me , I could make a decent appearance , and I soon ...
... live as a gentle- man on that . I am going over old ground , for I fancy you are aware that I soon found I must sell my in- terest in your annuity . With the little capital this gave me , I could make a decent appearance , and I soon ...
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... live and grow in that luscious hot - house air , and although your leaves may spread for a time more richly , and your fruit appear to ripen faster , how will you be fit to meet the storms , the cold , the changes of hardy and austere ...
... live and grow in that luscious hot - house air , and although your leaves may spread for a time more richly , and your fruit appear to ripen faster , how will you be fit to meet the storms , the cold , the changes of hardy and austere ...
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... live . " " Thank you ! " And she gave him her hand , which he received cordi- ally . " Now , " she said , " I will ven- ture to ask you a question which has very often occurred to me , but I never could venture on it before . You have ...
... live . " " Thank you ! " And she gave him her hand , which he received cordi- ally . " Now , " she said , " I will ven- ture to ask you a question which has very often occurred to me , but I never could venture on it before . You have ...
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• CHAPTER IX . CHAPTER X. several lives came the recollection of the history of each , seen in long per- spective ... live . But if you would do me a kindness , you must let me have my own way for this once . " He saw assent in her ...
• CHAPTER IX . CHAPTER X. several lives came the recollection of the history of each , seen in long per- spective ... live . But if you would do me a kindness , you must let me have my own way for this once . " He saw assent in her ...
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" the army up at London or somewhere , and he let Mr Lascelles live in the manor - house . Mrs Lascelles , who was one of the best women I ever saw , had just brought him a girl , and they had lost two or three children before , I lived ...
" the army up at London or somewhere , and he let Mr Lascelles live in the manor - house . Mrs Lascelles , who was one of the best women I ever saw , had just brought him a girl , and they had lost two or three children before , I lived ...
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Page 311 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a...
Page 313 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale captives, creep to death.
Page 310 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell, Of every star that Heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 483 - From Greenland's icy mountains ; From India's coral strand ; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river ; From many a palmy plain ; They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 311 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise...
Page 180 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 525 - If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 130 - ... twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Page 130 - A solemn, strange, and mingled air ; 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?
Page 130 - Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul: And dashing soft from rocks around Bubbling runnels join'd the sound; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.