Peter's Letters to His KinsfolkC. S. Van Winkle, 101 Greenwich street, 1820 - 575 ページ |
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... character of any I have ever seen in Britain . The sombre shadows , cast by those huge houses of which it is composed , and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there , where the entrance to some fantastic alley ...
... character of any I have ever seen in Britain . The sombre shadows , cast by those huge houses of which it is composed , and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there , where the entrance to some fantastic alley ...
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... character of his countrymen . I own I am rather at a loss to discover what he means by " whiggery , " ( for he never deigns to give a de- finition ; ) and all I know of the matter is , that it is something for which he equally ...
... character of his countrymen . I own I am rather at a loss to discover what he means by " whiggery , " ( for he never deigns to give a de- finition ; ) and all I know of the matter is , that it is something for which he equally ...
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... character . With- out wanting their due proportion of the national enthusiasm , the Scottish gentry seem to show much fewer symptoms of it than those below them ; and this is a sufficiently natural result of their sense of their own ...
... character . With- out wanting their due proportion of the national enthusiasm , the Scottish gentry seem to show much fewer symptoms of it than those below them ; and this is a sufficiently natural result of their sense of their own ...
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... character . Perhaps the very first glance of this celebrated person produced some- thing of the same effect upon my own mind ; but a minute or two of contemplation sufficed to restore me to the whole of my faith in physiognomy . People ...
... character . Perhaps the very first glance of this celebrated person produced some- thing of the same effect upon my own mind ; but a minute or two of contemplation sufficed to restore me to the whole of my faith in physiognomy . People ...
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... character than its unassisted enemies alone could have any power of inflicting . He has a two - fold argument on this head . " In the first place , " says he , " the utterly ig- norant and uninformed , who must constitute the great ma ...
... character than its unassisted enemies alone could have any power of inflicting . He has a two - fold argument on this head . " In the first place , " says he , " the utterly ig- norant and uninformed , who must constitute the great ma ...
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124 ページ - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
102 ページ - All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed.
70 ページ - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
345 ページ - On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, his Fancy fetched, Even from the blazing Chariot of the Sun, A beardless Youth, who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment.
398 ページ - With solemn touches,* troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they Breathing united force with fixed thought Moved on in silence to soft pipes that charmed Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil...
80 ページ - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
340 ページ - ... so thick the aery crowd swarmed and were straitened ; till, the signal given, behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed in bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room throng numberless...
494 ページ - As if their silent company were charged With peaceful admonitions for the heart Of all-beholding Man, earth's thoughtful lord ; Then, in full many a region, once like this The assured domain of calm simplicity And pensive quiet, an unnatural light Prepared for never-resting Labour's eyes...
76 ページ - I AM a son of Mars who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars wherever I come ; This here was for a wench, and that other in a trench, When welcoming the French at the sound of the drum.
76 ページ - And now a widow, I must mourn The pleasures that will ne'er return; No comfort but a hearty can, When I think on John Highlandman. RECITATIVO A pigmy scraper, wi...