The Token: A Christmas and New Year's Present, Volume 1Samuel Griswold Goodrich Gray and Bowem, 1831 - 350 pages |
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... began to burn in the purple radiance , as a signal for all the other fires to be lighted in the sky . Nothing could exceed the beauty of such hours , when small sails , gilt with the soft light , were hurry- ing homeward , and the ...
... began to burn in the purple radiance , as a signal for all the other fires to be lighted in the sky . Nothing could exceed the beauty of such hours , when small sails , gilt with the soft light , were hurry- ing homeward , and the ...
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... began . ' My father lived in New Jersey , on a beautiful es- tate , not far from the seashore . In his youth , he was an officer in the British service , and was seriously wounded in one of his European campaigns . His physicians ...
... began . ' My father lived in New Jersey , on a beautiful es- tate , not far from the seashore . In his youth , he was an officer in the British service , and was seriously wounded in one of his European campaigns . His physicians ...
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... began , my father took the side of England . All his prejudices were in favor of that nation , and he felt too that he owed it a debt of gratitude , which bound him to its service . He was a bold and independent man ; and even if he had ...
... began , my father took the side of England . All his prejudices were in favor of that nation , and he felt too that he owed it a debt of gratitude , which bound him to its service . He was a bold and independent man ; and even if he had ...
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... began to grow feeble . Her step was not so light , nor her cheek so roselike , as when I first knew her ; but she did not complain , and seem- ed to think herself better for the exertion . I once intimated to her that her health ...
... began to grow feeble . Her step was not so light , nor her cheek so roselike , as when I first knew her ; but she did not complain , and seem- ed to think herself better for the exertion . I once intimated to her that her health ...
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... began descending . This subterranean passage was cut in an oblique di- rection through the solid rock , the roof being arched , while below was a series of steps . When it had led us about an hundred and fifty feet below the surface , a ...
... began descending . This subterranean passage was cut in an oblique di- rection through the solid rock , the roof being arched , while below was a series of steps . When it had led us about an hundred and fifty feet below the surface , a ...
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The Token: Christmas and New Year's Present (Classic Reprint) Samuel Griswold Goodrich No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 32 - I am as a man that hath no strength: free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves.
Page 35 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since, their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage: their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves play.
Page 188 - Albeit thou dost not see my face the while. Yes — thou canst hear — and He Who on thy sightless eye its darkness hung, To the attentive ear like harps hath strung Heaven, and earth, and sea ! And 'tis a lesson in our hearts to know, With but one sense the soul may overflow ! 1.
Page 43 - ... inhabitants! The most desirable mode of existence might be that of a spiritualized Paul Pry, hovering invisible round man and woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity, and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion peculiar to himself. But none of these things are possible ; and if I would know the interior of brick walls, or the mystery of human bosoms, I can but guess.
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Page 140 - Tis midnight — all is peace profound ! But, lo ! upon the murmuring ground, The lonely, swelling, hurrying sound Of distant wheels is heard ! They come — they pause a moment — when.
Page 246 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
Page 33 - ... oft: Of every cloud which in the heavens might stir I knew the force; and hence the rough sea's pride Availed not to my Vessel's overthrow. What noble pomp and frequent have not I On regal decks beheld ! yet in the end I learned that one poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. We sail the sea of life...
Page 41 - O that I could soar up into the very zenith, where man never breathed, nor eagle ever flew, and where the ethereal azure melts away from the eye, and appears only a deepened shade of nothingness ! And yet I shiver at that cold and solitary thought.