The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, Volumen1Wells and Lilly, 1827 - 246 páginas |
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... length the day came , and the dawn of morn- ing found me mounted on my horse , and proceeding , with a beating heart , to the scene of action . It may be conceived what effect the imposing spectacle of pomp and parade , which I there ...
... length the day came , and the dawn of morn- ing found me mounted on my horse , and proceeding , with a beating heart , to the scene of action . It may be conceived what effect the imposing spectacle of pomp and parade , which I there ...
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... length of his absence computed to an hour ; but I would then be gone , and years might elapse before we again em- braced in brotherhood and love . Our separation seemed long and limitless , for to a boy the future is an eternity , the ...
... length of his absence computed to an hour ; but I would then be gone , and years might elapse before we again em- braced in brotherhood and love . Our separation seemed long and limitless , for to a boy the future is an eternity , the ...
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... length I observed some labourers passing at a distance . I rose , and attempted to call them , but my throat was parched and powerless , and I could produce no sound . I made a signal , and they ap- proached . What they saw spoke too ...
... length I observed some labourers passing at a distance . I rose , and attempted to call them , but my throat was parched and powerless , and I could produce no sound . I made a signal , and they ap- proached . What they saw spoke too ...
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... length I thought myself dying . My limbs became gradually numb and stiff , and I drew breath with difficulty . In the expectation of death , my mind be- came calmer . There was consolation in the idea , A that I should not survive the ...
... length I thought myself dying . My limbs became gradually numb and stiff , and I drew breath with difficulty . In the expectation of death , my mind be- came calmer . There was consolation in the idea , A that I should not survive the ...
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... length I awoke as from a deep sleep . I gazed on the objects around me , but could recognise none of them , and I again closed my eyes , and endeavour- ed to arrange the confused multitude of ideas , that thronged tumultuously on my ...
... length I awoke as from a deep sleep . I gazed on the objects around me , but could recognise none of them , and I again closed my eyes , and endeavour- ed to arrange the confused multitude of ideas , that thronged tumultuously on my ...
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Página 26 - There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Página 12 - O'er each fair sleeping brow, She had each folded flower in sight— Where are those dreamers now? One midst the forests of the West, By a dark stream, is laid ; The Indian knows his place of rest Far in the cedar shade. The sea, the blue lone sea, hath one, He lies where pearls lie deep, He was the loved of all, yet none O'er his low bed may weep.
Página 202 - And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again, And still the thought I will not brook That I must look in vain. But, when I speak, thou dost not say What thou ne'er leftst unsaid, And now I feel, as well I may, Sweet Mary!
Página 27 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Página 54 - I fear thee, ancient Mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand. I fear thee and thy glittering eye, And thy skinny hand so brown."— "Fear not, fear not, thou Wedding-Guest!
Página 112 - No check, no stay, this Streamlet fears ; How merrily it goes ! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows.
Página 112 - For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Página 215 - She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs ; And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers the silence and the calm Of mute insensate things.