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... stood round the door with eyes and mouth agape to stare at the new comer . They are soon dispersed by an elderly negress , very black , and very ugly , but dressed with extreme neatness , even to the gay yellow turban which covered her ...
... stood round the door with eyes and mouth agape to stare at the new comer . They are soon dispersed by an elderly negress , very black , and very ugly , but dressed with extreme neatness , even to the gay yellow turban which covered her ...
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... stood groups of grave - looking thoughtful men , who only lifted their eyes from the ground to give a nod to the negro slave , who persisted in at- tracting the attention of " massa , " My heart grew sick at the contrast , while I ...
... stood groups of grave - looking thoughtful men , who only lifted their eyes from the ground to give a nod to the negro slave , who persisted in at- tracting the attention of " massa , " My heart grew sick at the contrast , while I ...
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... stood , was undoubtedly advantageous to the sellers . Yes , Ashlydyat had gone from the Godolphins . But Thomas and his sisters remained in it . There had been no battle with Thomas on the score of his remaining . Lord Averil had ...
... stood , was undoubtedly advantageous to the sellers . Yes , Ashlydyat had gone from the Godolphins . But Thomas and his sisters remained in it . There had been no battle with Thomas on the score of his remaining . Lord Averil had ...
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... stood there ? Was his spirit in heaviness , as was the case under similar misfortune of another man - if the written record he left to us may be trusted that great and noble poet , ill- fated in death as in life , whose transcendent ...
... stood there ? Was his spirit in heaviness , as was the case under similar misfortune of another man - if the written record he left to us may be trusted that great and noble poet , ill- fated in death as in life , whose transcendent ...
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... stood there in his careless beauty , his bright face bent down- wards , his tall fine form , noble in its calmness . The sun was playing with his hair , bringing out its golden tints , and a smile illumined his face , as he went on with ...
... stood there in his careless beauty , his bright face bent down- wards , his tall fine form , noble in its calmness . The sun was playing with his hair , bringing out its golden tints , and a smile illumined his face , as he went on with ...
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Page 42 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 40 - And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even ! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Page 414 - Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ; Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle. O Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Page 232 - Fairer seems the ancient city, and the sunshine seems more fair, That he once has trod its pavement, that he once has breathed its air!
Page 476 - La pièce du jeune poète de quinze ans se terminait par ces vers : Moi, qui toujours fuyant les cités et les cours, De trois, lustres à peine ai vu finir le cours.
Page 252 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun. And by-and-by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 246 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest I will go; thy people shall be my people and thy God my God.
Page 166 - ... and if ever he meditate on power, go toss up thy baby to his brow, and bring back his thoughts into his heart by the music of thy discourse. Teach him to live unto God and unto thee ; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
Page 45 - He stated that there was a great deal to be Said on both sides...
Page 420 - A heroic Wallace, quartered on the scaffold, cannot hinder that his Scotland become, one day, a part of England ; but he does hinder that it become, on tyrannous, unfair terms, a part of it...