My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideDodd, Mead, 1906 |
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... round . Pleas'd memory still delights to linger here And many a cheek is moistened with a tear . The wife , the child , the parent , and the friend In soft regret by these sweet trophies bend . Nor let the selfish sneer , the proud ...
... round . Pleas'd memory still delights to linger here And many a cheek is moistened with a tear . The wife , the child , the parent , and the friend In soft regret by these sweet trophies bend . Nor let the selfish sneer , the proud ...
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... round the top , which had a low parapet on the outer side , while on the inner we looked down to the bottom of the tower , which descended below the ground- level into an excavation said to have been the dungeon . The top of the walls ...
... round the top , which had a low parapet on the outer side , while on the inner we looked down to the bottom of the tower , which descended below the ground- level into an excavation said to have been the dungeon . The top of the walls ...
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... round its top - all come before me as I recall these earlier days with a distinctness strangely contrasted with the vague shadow figures of the human beings who were my constant associates in all these scenes . In the house , I ...
... round its top - all come before me as I recall these earlier days with a distinctness strangely contrasted with the vague shadow figures of the human beings who were my constant associates in all these scenes . In the house , I ...
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... round . Where the river passed under the bridge close by , we could clamber up and look over the parapet into the deep , clear water rushing over a dam , and also see where the stream that turned the wheel passed swiftly under a low ...
... round . Where the river passed under the bridge close by , we could clamber up and look over the parapet into the deep , clear water rushing over a dam , and also see where the stream that turned the wheel passed swiftly under a low ...
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... round , and as springs were not by any means common , we seldom went this way without running down to it to take a drink of water and admire its purity and upward bubbling out of the earth . At Dunkirk's Farm we crossed the end of ...
... round , and as springs were not by any means common , we seldom went this way without running down to it to take a drink of water and admire its purity and upward bubbling out of the earth . At Dunkirk's Farm we crossed the end of ...
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