American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... lands which he cul- tivated are waste . That hearth - stone on which he garnered up the affections of his own home is sunk into the elements . The very marble , which his children raised over his ashes for a memorial unto eternity , is ...
... lands which he cul- tivated are waste . That hearth - stone on which he garnered up the affections of his own home is sunk into the elements . The very marble , which his children raised over his ashes for a memorial unto eternity , is ...
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... land , Who for his distant cottage craves thy ray , Where count his babes the hours of his delay ; - Or hapless one , who with gaze fixed on thee , Thinks of a world unseen , and dreams like me ! " Where go , , " he asks , " those ...
... land , Who for his distant cottage craves thy ray , Where count his babes the hours of his delay ; - Or hapless one , who with gaze fixed on thee , Thinks of a world unseen , and dreams like me ! " Where go , , " he asks , " those ...
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... land ! He thus describes the spot where the dwelling of love should be : - Above a lake of blue a hill - top bends , Slowly its verdure - mantled slope descends To greet the crystal waves ; All day the sunbeams on its borders rest , And ...
... land ! He thus describes the spot where the dwelling of love should be : - Above a lake of blue a hill - top bends , Slowly its verdure - mantled slope descends To greet the crystal waves ; All day the sunbeams on its borders rest , And ...
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... land by some natural convulsion ; upon its very summit ( a most romantic situation truly ) stands a church or a dwelling , ac- cessible from the main by a short wooden bridge . From this point the beach of the placid bay of Inrufuba ...
... land by some natural convulsion ; upon its very summit ( a most romantic situation truly ) stands a church or a dwelling , ac- cessible from the main by a short wooden bridge . From this point the beach of the placid bay of Inrufuba ...
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... land ; but was disenthralled in 1807 , when the monarch immigrated to Rio Janeiro . The influence of Great Britain over the Portuguese government followed it across the Atlantic , as was apparent in a commercial treaty between the two ...
... land ; but was disenthralled in 1807 , when the monarch immigrated to Rio Janeiro . The influence of Great Britain over the Portuguese government followed it across the Atlantic , as was apparent in a commercial treaty between the two ...
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