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... door . Nobody sat inside , and the coachman asleep on the box made me feel more solitary and inquisitive than ever . Yet in its time the old house must have seen plenty of company . Friends of later years have spoken to me of it ...
... door . Nobody sat inside , and the coachman asleep on the box made me feel more solitary and inquisitive than ever . Yet in its time the old house must have seen plenty of company . Friends of later years have spoken to me of it ...
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... door , she stayed , lifted her candle , and looked at me . " You will remember , " she said , " that what I am about to admit you into is Mr. Nahum's room ; not mine . You may look at the pictures , you may examine anything that ...
... door , she stayed , lifted her candle , and looked at me . " You will remember , " she said , " that what I am about to admit you into is Mr. Nahum's room ; not mine . You may look at the pictures , you may examine anything that ...
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... door , shut it and left me to my own devices . What first I noticed , being for awhile a little alarmed at this strange proceeding , was the evening light that poured in on the room from the encircling windows . Below , by walking some ...
... door , shut it and left me to my own devices . What first I noticed , being for awhile a little alarmed at this strange proceeding , was the evening light that poured in on the room from the encircling windows . Below , by walking some ...
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... door and went helter skelter clattering down the stairs - out of the glare into the gloom . There was no sign of Miss Taroone as I crossed through the house and sneaked off hastily through the garden . And not until the barn had shut me ...
... door and went helter skelter clattering down the stairs - out of the glare into the gloom . There was no sign of Miss Taroone as I crossed through the house and sneaked off hastily through the garden . And not until the barn had shut me ...
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... . For sheer joy of return I could scarcely breathe for a while after remounting the stone staircase , re - entering Mr. Nahum's room , and closing the door behind me . From above his broad scrawled pages I would lift my [ xxxv ]
... . For sheer joy of return I could scarcely breathe for a while after remounting the stone staircase , re - entering Mr. Nahum's room , and closing the door behind me . From above his broad scrawled pages I would lift my [ xxxv ]
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Page 97 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Page 175 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden, saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 213 - SOLITARY REAPER. BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass ! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass ! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Page 635 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Page 218 - WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With...
Page 41 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Page 455 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries...
Page 274 - THEY are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear.
Page 59 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. / was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love — I and my ANNABEL LEE — .With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 60 - For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE ; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE.