The Story of My Wardship, 1. köideRichard Bentley, 1856 |
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... dark domain , And fetters sure and fast Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign . * * My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back - yearns with desire intense , And struggles hard to wring Thy bolts apart , and pluck thy captives ...
... dark domain , And fetters sure and fast Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign . * * My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back - yearns with desire intense , And struggles hard to wring Thy bolts apart , and pluck thy captives ...
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... dark , was yet paler than the faces of those around her - my kind nurse Inez . She would sing to me in a foreign tongue - in the rich , sonorous language of Spain ; indulge me in every childish whim , and endeavour to make me as ...
... dark , was yet paler than the faces of those around her - my kind nurse Inez . She would sing to me in a foreign tongue - in the rich , sonorous language of Spain ; indulge me in every childish whim , and endeavour to make me as ...
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... dark dresses ! Dreary - dreary I felt when I found myself on the evening of a wretched day , newly arrived at the house of the guardian to whose care I was consigned by my father's will - at the residence of Lord D'Arville in Berkeley ...
... dark dresses ! Dreary - dreary I felt when I found myself on the evening of a wretched day , newly arrived at the house of the guardian to whose care I was consigned by my father's will - at the residence of Lord D'Arville in Berkeley ...
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... dark blue of night ; suggesting the thought of hoary and honoura- ble age gazing fearlessly into the unfathomable , solemn depths of Eternity . We turned an angle , and were in one of the gloomy passes of the Jura . I sank into a corner ...
... dark blue of night ; suggesting the thought of hoary and honoura- ble age gazing fearlessly into the unfathomable , solemn depths of Eternity . We turned an angle , and were in one of the gloomy passes of the Jura . I sank into a corner ...
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... dark lashes , and in the yoluptuous laziness of her manner , there was something which charmed while it provoked one . Wilfulness was written on her face , in spite of the placidity of its expression : there it was -the reed which would ...
... dark lashes , and in the yoluptuous laziness of her manner , there was something which charmed while it provoked one . Wilfulness was written on her face , in spite of the placidity of its expression : there it was -the reed which would ...
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