My Old Portfolio; Or, Tales and SketchesSmith, Elder, and Company, 1832 - 310 sidor |
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... heard above on the Shreck horn . Every body looks up ; but , just as they look up , down comes an ava- lanche or a bit of a glacier ! and in one moment the chatty elderly ladies are no more ; and the worthy baronets , rather inclining ...
... heard above on the Shreck horn . Every body looks up ; but , just as they look up , down comes an ava- lanche or a bit of a glacier ! and in one moment the chatty elderly ladies are no more ; and the worthy baronets , rather inclining ...
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... thy minister . That summer day , dedicated in its quiet tranquillity to nature and the heart's affections , will mind thee of thy boyhood . The - passing butterfly or humming bee , heard though not 20 SUMMER THOUGHTS AND RAMBLES .
... thy minister . That summer day , dedicated in its quiet tranquillity to nature and the heart's affections , will mind thee of thy boyhood . The - passing butterfly or humming bee , heard though not 20 SUMMER THOUGHTS AND RAMBLES .
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Henry Glassford Bell. - passing butterfly or humming bee , heard though not seen , may touch a chord , whose every vibra- tion will be a recollection of the past― pleasant , but sad . There is no loss of time in giving a day to dreams ...
Henry Glassford Bell. - passing butterfly or humming bee , heard though not seen , may touch a chord , whose every vibra- tion will be a recollection of the past― pleasant , but sad . There is no loss of time in giving a day to dreams ...
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... ( Mr. Cherryripe did not like the term village ) ; and a prettier little place is not to be found in England . " " So I have heard ; and as you are not upon any of the great roads , I believe you have 24 THE STRANGER .
... ( Mr. Cherryripe did not like the term village ) ; and a prettier little place is not to be found in England . " " So I have heard ; and as you are not upon any of the great roads , I believe you have 24 THE STRANGER .
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... heard beyond the limits of their own immediate circle . But mingle with that circle ; leave the busy world behind you , and enter within its circumscribed and domestic sphere , and then you will discover the value of a being like to her ...
... heard beyond the limits of their own immediate circle . But mingle with that circle ; leave the busy world behind you , and enter within its circumscribed and domestic sphere , and then you will discover the value of a being like to her ...
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My Old Portfolio, Or, Tales and Sketches /by Henry Glassford Bell Henry Glassford Bell Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1832 |
My Old Portfolio: Or, Tales and Sketches: by Henry Glassford Bell Henry Bell Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2017 |
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Sida 155 - Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live. — I look on high; Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death? or do I lie In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep Spread far around and inaccessibly Its circles?
Sida 201 - And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning, When the great trump shall thrill thee with its warning.
Sida 137 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Sida 5 - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm south, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim.
Sida 87 - Turningvort was a man of speculative as well as practical science, and there was a favourite discovery which he had long been endeavouring to make, and in accomplishing which he imagined he had at last succeeded that very morning. Like all other manufacturers of terrestrial legs, he had ever found the chief difficulty in his progress towards perfection to consist in its being...
Sida 122 - Fitzclarence."— Julia's cheeks grew first as white as her brow, and then as red as her lips. As soon as breakfast was over, she retired to her own apartment, whither we must, for once, take the liberty of following her. She sat herself down before her mirror, and deliberately took from her hair a very tasteful little knot of fictitious flowers, which she had fastened in it when she rose. One naturally expected that she was about to replace this ornament with something more splendid — a few jewels,...
Sida 91 - I may walk. Don't stand gaping there, but come out and relieve me, or I shall be out of sight, and you will not be able to overtake me." The mechanician grew very pale ; he was evidently not prepared for this new difficulty. He lost not a moment, however, in following the merchant to do what he could towards extricating him from so awkward a predicament. The merchant, or rather the merchant's leg, was walking very quick, and Turningvort, being an elderly man, found it no easy matter to make up to...