The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, Volumen1Wells and Lilly, 1827 - 246 páginas |
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... passed away . Charles was now sixteen , and my father determined to send him to the University . He had always been his favourite son , and , independently of his claims as the future head of the family , destined to bear its honours ...
... passed away . Charles was now sixteen , and my father determined to send him to the University . He had always been his favourite son , and , independently of his claims as the future head of the family , destined to bear its honours ...
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... passed the gate , where our sisters were waiting our arrival . Jane locked her arms in ours as we walked onward to the house , and little Lucy bounded by our side , with a heart full of buoy- ancy and glee . " No fountain , from its ...
... passed the gate , where our sisters were waiting our arrival . Jane locked her arms in ours as we walked onward to the house , and little Lucy bounded by our side , with a heart full of buoy- ancy and glee . " No fountain , from its ...
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... passed on . fired several shots , but this occasioned little inter- ruption to our colloquy . The dogs again pointed ... passing my own , which he waited to receive . It was cocked . His head was close to the muzzle - a twig caught the ...
... passed on . fired several shots , but this occasioned little inter- ruption to our colloquy . The dogs again pointed ... passing my own , which he waited to receive . It was cocked . His head was close to the muzzle - a twig caught the ...
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... 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 plainly , to re- quire from me an ...
... 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 plainly , to re- quire from me an ...
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... passed away , and I lay in a loathsome pit , with creatures unutterably loath- some . There the toads spit upon me , and the liz- ards gazed on me with their sparkling eyes , and crawling things defiled me with their slime . Then peals ...
... passed away , and I lay in a loathsome pit , with creatures unutterably loath- some . There the toads spit upon me , and the liz- ards gazed on me with their sparkling eyes , and crawling things defiled me with their slime . Then peals ...
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apartment appeared approach arms auld baith Balmalloch beauty beheld called canna carriage character Charles circumstances comfort Conyers countenance County Guy Cyril daugh daughter death dinner door dreadful evidently excitement exclaimed expected eyes father favour feelings felt frae gang gazed Girzy Girzy's Glasgow grace Greenock hame hand happy heart honour hope hour Jack Spencer Jane Lady Amersham Lady Melicent Laird length letter little Lucy look Lord Amersham Lord Provost MacGuffin mair Mary maun ment mind mingled Miss Cumberbatch Miss Jacky Miss Pynsent morning mother nature never night object occasion old gentleman once onything party passed perhaps periphrasis person racter received regard scene Scotland seemed servant Sir Cavendish sisters smiles society soon spirit Spreull Staunton stood suffered tears thing Thornton thought tion uncle voice walk weel wishes ye'll ye're young youth
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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.