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... turned , I could not have passed him . Oh , if it had not been for my good little Prossy - the beauty she is ! " And Helen patted her pretty arching neck . " My dear girl , what were the men ? " " I don't know what they were - beggars ...
... turned , I could not have passed him . Oh , if it had not been for my good little Prossy - the beauty she is ! " And Helen patted her pretty arching neck . " My dear girl , what were the men ? " " I don't know what they were - beggars ...
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... turned again and cantered towards the sea . The tide was coming in rapidly , but I was now on the plateau of rock , which affords better footing than the rugged , broken ground . Both men followed , and the one on horseback cried , in ...
... turned again and cantered towards the sea . The tide was coming in rapidly , but I was now on the plateau of rock , which affords better footing than the rugged , broken ground . Both men followed , and the one on horseback cried , in ...
Sida 26
... turned deadly pale , and seemed ready to faint . " You are ill , dear Madame ! " cried Undine , much alarmed . " No , no , " she cried , clasping her hands ; " but tell me if you have upon your left arm the mark of a heart . " " Yes ...
... turned deadly pale , and seemed ready to faint . " You are ill , dear Madame ! " cried Undine , much alarmed . " No , no , " she cried , clasping her hands ; " but tell me if you have upon your left arm the mark of a heart . " " Yes ...
Sida 34
... turned her fickle smiles elsewhere , and distant spas were preferred to the healing ones at home , there still remained sufficient passenger traffic between Hampstead and the metropolis to employ several stage- coaches daily upon the ...
... turned her fickle smiles elsewhere , and distant spas were preferred to the healing ones at home , there still remained sufficient passenger traffic between Hampstead and the metropolis to employ several stage- coaches daily upon the ...
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... turned eagerly , quickening her pace to obtain a view of the speaker . She leaned against a tree like one asleep ... turning their long necks wonderingly in the direction of the stranger ; and , further off , gigantic water - lilies lay ...
... turned eagerly , quickening her pace to obtain a view of the speaker . She leaned against a tree like one asleep ... turning their long necks wonderingly in the direction of the stranger ; and , further off , gigantic water - lilies lay ...
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Sida 206 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...
Sida 128 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Sida 35 - Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Sida 88 - The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God.
Sida 323 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Sida 320 - I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself.
Sida 212 - Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness : according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences. Wash me throughly from my wickedness : and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my faults : and my sin is ever before me.
Sida 207 - In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd high and hard — but witness mine!
Sida 308 - ... enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake. And music in his ears his beating heart did make.
Sida 320 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.