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... town and country , and all over the country ; familiar ' home - views , ' anecdotes and ' stories ' not a few ; many and multifarious matters , in fine , original or communicated , that have made the writer laugh ; and many , moreover ...
... town and country , and all over the country ; familiar ' home - views , ' anecdotes and ' stories ' not a few ; many and multifarious matters , in fine , original or communicated , that have made the writer laugh ; and many , moreover ...
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... town , and along the majestic Hudson , and think ' on diverse things foredone , ' when we were as yet but a little boy ; especially of early days in the country , when with departed ' OLLAPOD ' we used to perch ourselves upon the top of ...
... town , and along the majestic Hudson , and think ' on diverse things foredone , ' when we were as yet but a little boy ; especially of early days in the country , when with departed ' OLLAPOD ' we used to perch ourselves upon the top of ...
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... town . He says that he has seldom presented a notice of protest , to a large amount , wherein he did not find the delinquent smoking a cigar . The bankrupt had made up his mind to the dread alternative of failing , and his chief solace ...
... town . He says that he has seldom presented a notice of protest , to a large amount , wherein he did not find the delinquent smoking a cigar . The bankrupt had made up his mind to the dread alternative of failing , and his chief solace ...
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... town . The mail comes from your village to Tompkinsville every day by the stage , which runs from your place to ... towns in this county to our place once a week , but the post - masters on that route can't read very well , and sometimes ...
... town . The mail comes from your village to Tompkinsville every day by the stage , which runs from your place to ... towns in this county to our place once a week , but the post - masters on that route can't read very well , and sometimes ...
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... town in which he had lived so long , he died . Perhaps you had not even missed him from the crowded streets ; yet he died ; and you remark , in the notice of his funeral , that his remains are to be taken , by the evening boat , or cars ...
... town in which he had lived so long , he died . Perhaps you had not even missed him from the crowded streets ; yet he died ; and you remark , in the notice of his funeral , that his remains are to be taken , by the evening boat , or cars ...
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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.