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... tell you , you have made MR . SPEAKER : * See " an Act for Sir William Berkeley being Gover- nor . " Hening , I. , 530 . VOL . XI - 1 + See " an Act for taking the Power into the Assemblies hands . " Hening , I. , 530 . : me the ...
... tell you , you have made MR . SPEAKER : * See " an Act for Sir William Berkeley being Gover- nor . " Hening , I. , 530 . VOL . XI - 1 + See " an Act for taking the Power into the Assemblies hands . " Hening , I. , 530 . : me the ...
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... tell you , you have given me a great Treasure but some of the former Parliament , whoe for a short in vaine , except you helpe me to carry it to a place time held the supremacy , but they alsoe were of safetie ; you have raised a high ...
... tell you , you have given me a great Treasure but some of the former Parliament , whoe for a short in vaine , except you helpe me to carry it to a place time held the supremacy , but they alsoe were of safetie ; you have raised a high ...
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... Tell me my object in coming was now enabled to read not only in the good book hither . " which was his mother's last gift , but in many others . What excited their admiration still more , he could draw charming pictures and puzzles on ...
... Tell me my object in coming was now enabled to read not only in the good book hither . " which was his mother's last gift , but in many others . What excited their admiration still more , he could draw charming pictures and puzzles on ...
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... tell father . " Grayton and her wild prophecies were soon forgot- " You have no right , " interrupted Edward , " to ten and Dora was presently employed in chasing trouble your father with such trifles , or to interfere the fire flies ...
... tell father . " Grayton and her wild prophecies were soon forgot- " You have no right , " interrupted Edward , " to ten and Dora was presently employed in chasing trouble your father with such trifles , or to interfere the fire flies ...
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... tell thee how well , how fondly we loved . My cousin Edward ! ( ' poor Ludovico ! ' sighed Alie , ) oh ! Alie , you should have seen his bold and beautiful brow - his dark , dark eye - so full of animation - his voice , ' soft as the ...
... tell thee how well , how fondly we loved . My cousin Edward ! ( ' poor Ludovico ! ' sighed Alie , ) oh ! Alie , you should have seen his bold and beautiful brow - his dark , dark eye - so full of animation - his voice , ' soft as the ...
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Page 187 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch...
Page 188 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow...
Page 187 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 187 - But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered Till I scarcely more than muttered, 'Other friends have flown before On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Page 187 - said I, " thing of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: 130 Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore! " Quoth the Raven,
Page 187 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never— nevermore.
Page 187 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou...
Page 460 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 448 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the united states in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states...
Page 186 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.