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... little midshipman , idling about in a great city , with his pockets full of money . He is waiting for the coach : it comes up presently , and he gets on the top of it , and looks about him . 5 They soon leave the chimney pots behind ...
... little midshipman , idling about in a great city , with his pockets full of money . He is waiting for the coach : it comes up presently , and he gets on the top of it , and looks about him . 5 They soon leave the chimney pots behind ...
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... little thinks that they have no notion in what " that honor " may happen to consist . The coach stops the little midshipman , with his hands in his pockets , sits rattling his money , and sing- ing . There is a poor woman standing by ...
... little thinks that they have no notion in what " that honor " may happen to consist . The coach stops the little midshipman , with his hands in his pockets , sits rattling his money , and sing- ing . There is a poor woman standing by ...
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... midshipman knows nothing about that ; and he never will know . The passengers go on talking- the little midshipman has told them who he is , and where he is going ; but there is one man who has never joined in the conversa- 10 tion ; he ...
... midshipman knows nothing about that ; and he never will know . The passengers go on talking- the little midshipman has told them who he is , and where he is going ; but there is one man who has never joined in the conversa- 10 tion ; he ...
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... little midshipman stops by the door , looks in , and listens . The clergyman has just risen , and is giving out his text . Thirteen months have past since the boy was within a house of prayer ; and a feeling of pleasure and 10 awe ...
... little midshipman stops by the door , looks in , and listens . The clergyman has just risen , and is giving out his text . Thirteen months have past since the boy was within a house of prayer ; and a feeling of pleasure and 10 awe ...
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... little midshipman , when not fifty yards from the branching of the path , to break into a sudden run ? It is not fear , for he never dreams of dan- ger . Some sudden impulse , or some wild wish for home , 15 makes him dash off suddenly ...
... little midshipman , when not fifty yards from the branching of the path , to break into a sudden run ? It is not fear , for he never dreams of dan- ger . Some sudden impulse , or some wild wish for home , 15 makes him dash off suddenly ...
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Page 206 - When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 195 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er. When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Page 213 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand, — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low, — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him : he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 102 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 10 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 76 - His horsemen hard behind us ride; Should they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride, When they have slain her lover?
Page 40 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. "Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face ; "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena, "Now yield thee to our grace.
Page 216 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 222 - Remorsefully regarded thro' his tears, And would have spoken, but he found not words, Then took with care, and kneeling on one knee O'er both his shoulders drew the languid hands, And rising bore him thro
Page 207 - And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valor given ; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven.