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... fact , have colonial coffee , and a hundred other things ; but as that the contents of this volume are more true to nature , we do without them , they must also manage to keep their and more impressed with originality , than those of ...
... fact , have colonial coffee , and a hundred other things ; but as that the contents of this volume are more true to nature , we do without them , they must also manage to keep their and more impressed with originality , than those of ...
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... fact that this system works well . The Reviewer rives it as the report of a very intelligent friend , who had spected the whole of the Hazelwood establishment , of which he speaks in the following terms : - " The most striking ...
... fact that this system works well . The Reviewer rives it as the report of a very intelligent friend , who had spected the whole of the Hazelwood establishment , of which he speaks in the following terms : - " The most striking ...
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... fact is recorded upon a Pyramidal stone , of prodigious magnitude , the shape and inscription of which is represented in the annexed engrav- ing , for the loan of which we have to make an acknow- ledgment to the proprietor of the ...
... fact is recorded upon a Pyramidal stone , of prodigious magnitude , the shape and inscription of which is represented in the annexed engrav- ing , for the loan of which we have to make an acknow- ledgment to the proprietor of the ...
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... fact , though not generally known , " say the London papers , " that the popular superstition of overturning the salt at table being unlucky , arises from the picture of the Last Supper , by Leonardo de Vinci , in Now it happens that ...
... fact , though not generally known , " say the London papers , " that the popular superstition of overturning the salt at table being unlucky , arises from the picture of the Last Supper , by Leonardo de Vinci , in Now it happens that ...
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... fact or experience ; though , in this case , vague and incon- to at the Printers ' , stating qualifications . " COPY OF REPLY . Observing in the Gazette an advertisement for Governess to undertake the instruction of two young La- dies ...
... fact or experience ; though , in this case , vague and incon- to at the Printers ' , stating qualifications . " COPY OF REPLY . Observing in the Gazette an advertisement for Governess to undertake the instruction of two young La- dies ...
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Page 171 - He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule...
Page 35 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...
Page 140 - Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave — Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave...
Page 42 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight...
Page 14 - The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made.
Page 14 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show. They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade; Die to themselves.
Page 14 - Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem...
Page 167 - When I am as it were completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer — say, travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep — it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not; nor can I force them.
Page 188 - And fill with tears of joy my eyes. What is there my wild heart can prize, That doth not in thy sphere abide ; Haunt of my home-bred sympathies, My own — my own fireside.
Page 3 - ... there happened this extraordinary case,— one of the most romantique that ever I heard of in my life, and could not have believed, but that I did see it...