My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 18
... seemed now a distant hum , Calm was the surface -- and the stream was dumb , Silent though swift its course - and such I cried The life of man ! In youth swoll'n high with pride , The passions raging , noisy , foaming , bold , Like the ...
... seemed now a distant hum , Calm was the surface -- and the stream was dumb , Silent though swift its course - and such I cried The life of man ! In youth swoll'n high with pride , The passions raging , noisy , foaming , bold , Like the ...
Page 19
... seemed quite like magic . So one day , finding a jar or bucket standing in the yard , I determined to try and see this wonderful thing . I first with a mug poured some water in till it was about an inch or two deep , and then collected ...
... seemed quite like magic . So one day , finding a jar or bucket standing in the yard , I determined to try and see this wonderful thing . I first with a mug poured some water in till it was about an inch or two deep , and then collected ...
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... seemed to be even less water than before . At last I became tired and gave it up , and concluded that the story could not be true ; and I am afraid this rather made me disbelieve in experi- ments out of story - books . The river in ...
... seemed to be even less water than before . At last I became tired and gave it up , and concluded that the story could not be true ; and I am afraid this rather made me disbelieve in experi- ments out of story - books . The river in ...
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... seemed so delightful that one day John provided himself with the matchbox , salt , and potatoes , and having climbed up the steep bank behind our house , as we often did , and passed over a field or two to the woods beyond , to my great ...
... seemed so delightful that one day John provided himself with the matchbox , salt , and potatoes , and having climbed up the steep bank behind our house , as we often did , and passed over a field or two to the woods beyond , to my great ...
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... seemed to us so appropriate that we named it the little castle , and it still remains a vivid memory . Our house was less than a quarter of a mile from the old bridge of three arches over the river Usk , by which we reached the town ...
... seemed to us so appropriate that we named it the little castle , and it still remains a vivid memory . Our house was less than a quarter of a mile from the old bridge of three arches over the river Usk , by which we reached the town ...
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