Cooper's Novels, Volym 20Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... their institutions . It is true that , in an age like this , public opinion is itself a charter , and that the most despotic government which exists within the pale of Christendom , must , in some degree , respect its Vi PREFACE .
... their institutions . It is true that , in an age like this , public opinion is itself a charter , and that the most despotic government which exists within the pale of Christendom , must , in some degree , respect its Vi PREFACE .
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... true republic is a government of which all others are jealous and vituperative , on the instinct of self - pre- servation , we believe there would be no mis- taking the class . How far Venice would have been obnoxious to this proof ...
... true republic is a government of which all others are jealous and vituperative , on the instinct of self - pre- servation , we believe there would be no mis- taking the class . How far Venice would have been obnoxious to this proof ...
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... true , Signore . Her padrone has relations at Sant ' Agata , as I have told your eccel- lenza , and his vessel has lain on the beach , near the castle , many a bleak winter . ” " What brings him to Venice ? ” " That is what I would give ...
... true , Signore . Her padrone has relations at Sant ' Agata , as I have told your eccel- lenza , and his vessel has lain on the beach , near the castle , many a bleak winter . ” " What brings him to Venice ? ” " That is what I would give ...
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... Every word of it as true as if the devil him- self had done the office for me , girl , " muttered Gino , uncasing himself from his flowery vestment , and as rapidly assuming the plainer garment he had sought . " 36 THE BRAVO .
... Every word of it as true as if the devil him- self had done the office for me , girl , " muttered Gino , uncasing himself from his flowery vestment , and as rapidly assuming the plainer garment he had sought . " 36 THE BRAVO .
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... true errand , needed no confirmation , since a servant of the Duke of Sant ' Agata was not likely to need a disguise to search a priest ; but she knew his zeal for her personal welfare too well , to distrust his faith in a matter that ...
... true errand , needed no confirmation , since a servant of the Duke of Sant ' Agata was not likely to need a disguise to search a priest ; but she knew his zeal for her personal welfare too well , to distrust his faith in a matter that ...
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Sida 9 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Sida 157 - PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare...
Sida 111 - He who observes it, ere he passes on, Gazes his fill, and comes and comes again, That he may call it up, when far away. She sits, inclining forward as to speak, Her lips half-open, and her finger up, As though she said