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... knew , positively knew , his Testament from end to end in the original , and was fa- miliar with the apocryphal gospels and epistles . Yet the man would be damned , infallibly damned , sir ; help for him ! He was not only schis- matic ...
... knew , positively knew , his Testament from end to end in the original , and was fa- miliar with the apocryphal gospels and epistles . Yet the man would be damned , infallibly damned , sir ; help for him ! He was not only schis- matic ...
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... knew that between Jasper and the rector a perfect understanding subsisted , and that the raiders would find a bag con- taining the precise sum required upon the table of the first room which they entered . " Nay , do not rise , unless ...
... knew that between Jasper and the rector a perfect understanding subsisted , and that the raiders would find a bag con- taining the precise sum required upon the table of the first room which they entered . " Nay , do not rise , unless ...
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... knew nothing of the rec- ognition in the Park , nor that the Rev. Eustace Tomlyn had preceded him with unavailing appeals , and that her young kinsman's urgent requests for an interview were construed by the bit- ter little spinster as ...
... knew nothing of the rec- ognition in the Park , nor that the Rev. Eustace Tomlyn had preceded him with unavailing appeals , and that her young kinsman's urgent requests for an interview were construed by the bit- ter little spinster as ...
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... knew himself to be well- to - do . He was immensely respected , as any man is likely to be whose few bare words are always and absolutely true , whilst enough of his subterra- nean beneficence had worked to the surface to save him from ...
... knew himself to be well- to - do . He was immensely respected , as any man is likely to be whose few bare words are always and absolutely true , whilst enough of his subterra- nean beneficence had worked to the surface to save him from ...
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... knew it , there were the Discontented Englishman and I about to be close locked in a grapple over the eternal Fiscal Question . One does not go all the way to Indo - China to renew a discussion in which no man of " settled opinions ...
... knew it , there were the Discontented Englishman and I about to be close locked in a grapple over the eternal Fiscal Question . One does not go all the way to Indo - China to renew a discussion in which no man of " settled opinions ...
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Page 229 - Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Page 407 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 202 - At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a flutter'd bird, came flying from far away: "Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!
Page 610 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, — Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Page 388 - Lamp of Earth ! where'er thou movest, Its dim shapes are clad with brightness, And the souls of whom thou lovest Walk upon the winds with lightness, Till they fail, as I am failing, Dizzy, lost, yet unbewailing ! ASIA.
Page 388 - Life of Life ! thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them ; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.
Page 611 - For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the smooth-faced snubnosed rogue would leap from his counter and till, And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home.
Page 185 - While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 197 - By me o'r thee, as justments to the dead, Forgive, forgive me ; since I did not know Whether thy bones had here their rest, or no. But now 'tis known, behold, behold, I bring Unto thy ghost th...
Page 388 - I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine— have I not kept the vow? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from his voiceless grave ; they have in...