The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, Volumen1Wells and Lilly, 1827 - 246 páginas |
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... wishes on this subject known to my fa- ther . Never shall I forget the glowing interest with which I read the history of the campaigns of the Great Gustavus , Prince Eugene , and Lord Peterbo- rough . I followed the course of their ...
... wishes on this subject known to my fa- ther . Never shall I forget the glowing interest with which I read the history of the campaigns of the Great Gustavus , Prince Eugene , and Lord Peterbo- rough . I followed the course of their ...
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... wish to be indulged with a bowl of toddy , a liquor , eo nomine at least , not fami- liar to any member of the establishment . Between our family and that of Balmalloch , little or no intercourse had been maintained , and that little ...
... wish to be indulged with a bowl of toddy , a liquor , eo nomine at least , not fami- liar to any member of the establishment . Between our family and that of Balmalloch , little or no intercourse had been maintained , and that little ...
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... wishing her a good morning , I again set forward with that purpose . Mr. Spreull's counting - house was in the Trongate , and formed part of a large tenement which he had originally built , and which , from this circumstance , was ...
... wishing her a good morning , I again set forward with that purpose . Mr. Spreull's counting - house was in the Trongate , and formed part of a large tenement which he had originally built , and which , from this circumstance , was ...
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... the effect of recent inflam- mation . I was spurred on to comply with my uncle's wishes , by a strange and unnatural excitement , and 6 VOL . I. I narrated , with a shuddering and shrinking heart , CYRIL THORNTON . 61.
... the effect of recent inflam- mation . I was spurred on to comply with my uncle's wishes , by a strange and unnatural excitement , and 6 VOL . I. I narrated , with a shuddering and shrinking heart , CYRIL THORNTON . 61.
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... wish I had just such another . But he's a rough diamond , as we used to say in Manchester , when I was there in Lees , Cheatham , and Company's counting - house , and he's better kent here by the name of Auld Girnegogibby than by his ...
... wish I had just such another . But he's a rough diamond , as we used to say in Manchester , when I was there in Lees , Cheatham , and Company's counting - house , and he's better kent here by the name of Auld Girnegogibby than by his ...
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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.