Peter's Letters to His KinsfolkC. S. Van Winkle, 101 Greenwich street, 1820 - 575 ページ |
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... present the idea of the comparative littleness of all human works . Here the proudest of palaces must be content to catch the shadows of mountains ; and the grandest of for- tresses to appear like the dwellings of pigmies , perched on ...
... present the idea of the comparative littleness of all human works . Here the proudest of palaces must be content to catch the shadows of mountains ; and the grandest of for- tresses to appear like the dwellings of pigmies , perched on ...
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... present . Your's sincerely , P. M. P. S. - You will observe by the date of my letter , I have already left the Black Bull . I write from one of the most comfortable hotels I ever was in , and have already ascertained the excellence of ...
... present . Your's sincerely , P. M. P. S. - You will observe by the date of my letter , I have already left the Black Bull . I write from one of the most comfortable hotels I ever was in , and have already ascertained the excellence of ...
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... present almost any evening that has passed since my arrival in Edinburgh . I shall not shock you with any of the particulars ; remember that you were once a layman yourself , and try to excuse about the worst you can imagine . What a ...
... present almost any evening that has passed since my arrival in Edinburgh . I shall not shock you with any of the particulars ; remember that you were once a layman yourself , and try to excuse about the worst you can imagine . What a ...
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... present day is to be found . It was quite marvel- lous with what facility he expounded the minutest hierogly- phics which had , no doubt , once been visible on shields of which my eye could now see nothing but rough outlines 14 PETER'S ...
... present day is to be found . It was quite marvel- lous with what facility he expounded the minutest hierogly- phics which had , no doubt , once been visible on shields of which my eye could now see nothing but rough outlines 14 PETER'S ...
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... present day in Scot- land ; but , unless questions are put to him , he seems , with a very few exceptions , to make a point of never alluding to their existence . It would appear as if he was not over anxious to remember that such ...
... present day in Scot- land ; but , unless questions are put to him , he seems , with a very few exceptions , to make a point of never alluding to their existence . It would appear as if he was not over anxious to remember that such ...
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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...