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... round fat ' murphies ' out of the black loamy soil ; of gathering in the yellow - green oats , so smooth , and so pleasant to ' cut , rake and bind ; ' of the Liliputian forests of tall silky flax - stems ; of the yellow - corn , so ...
... round fat ' murphies ' out of the black loamy soil ; of gathering in the yellow - green oats , so smooth , and so pleasant to ' cut , rake and bind ; ' of the Liliputian forests of tall silky flax - stems ; of the yellow - corn , so ...
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... round their necks . They were addressed in moving terms by OLLAPOD , and assured that all hope of reprieve was ridiculous ; it could not be thought of by the authorities ' for a moment . ' They must prepare to mount the scaf fold ...
... round their necks . They were addressed in moving terms by OLLAPOD , and assured that all hope of reprieve was ridiculous ; it could not be thought of by the authorities ' for a moment . ' They must prepare to mount the scaf fold ...
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... round against the inner - side of one of the marble head - stones , his father's old white mare ! She had met with a sad accident while wandering among the tombs , and cropping the fall - growth of timothy and clover ' which grew ...
... round against the inner - side of one of the marble head - stones , his father's old white mare ! She had met with a sad accident while wandering among the tombs , and cropping the fall - growth of timothy and clover ' which grew ...
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... round blue- green glasses , as if cut from a coarse window - pane . ' We had a curious jack , ' he continued , ' down in our town . He belonged to a terrible obstinate man , who kept him in a lot back o ' the meetin ' - house . Every ...
... round blue- green glasses , as if cut from a coarse window - pane . ' We had a curious jack , ' he continued , ' down in our town . He belonged to a terrible obstinate man , who kept him in a lot back o ' the meetin ' - house . Every ...
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... round the runnin ' over cattle , sheep , and hogs , and settin ' fire to bridges , and every now and then burnin ' up the woods . Mrs. ROBBINS , down to Cod - p'int , says , and she ought to know , for she's a pious woman , and belongs ...
... round the runnin ' over cattle , sheep , and hogs , and settin ' fire to bridges , and every now and then burnin ' up the woods . Mrs. ROBBINS , down to Cod - p'int , says , and she ought to know , for she's a pious woman , and belongs ...
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Page 97 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 285 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Page 139 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 85 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 56 - O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! 0 well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still...
Page 48 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Page 63 - Thou hast clothed me, warmed and fed me, Listen to my evening prayer. Let my sins be all forgiven ! Bless the friends I love so well ! Take me, when I die, to heaven, Happy there with thee to dwell ! VI.
Page 184 - SEAWEED WHEN descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Storm-wind of the equinox, Landward in his wrath he scourges The toiling surges, Laden with seaweed from the rocks: From Bermuda's reefs; from edges Of sunken ledges, In some far-off, bright Azore ; From Bahama, and the dashing, Silver-flashing Surges of San Salvador...
Page 141 - THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 56 - But, O, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.