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Alfred Austin. FIVE YEARS OF IT . BY ALFRED AUSTIN . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. LONDON : J. F. HOPE , 16 , GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET . 1858 . ACF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 482129 ASTOR , LENOX AND.
Alfred Austin. FIVE YEARS OF IT . BY ALFRED AUSTIN . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. LONDON : J. F. HOPE , 16 , GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET . 1858 . ACF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 482129 ASTOR , LENOX AND.
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... stretching far away , encompass it in their stern and sterile girdle . Here , whilst yet a child , Edgar had spent some of his happiest days . His former home was tenanted by strangers : the great London was to be 2 FIVE YEARS OF IT .
... stretching far away , encompass it in their stern and sterile girdle . Here , whilst yet a child , Edgar had spent some of his happiest days . His former home was tenanted by strangers : the great London was to be 2 FIVE YEARS OF IT .
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Alfred Austin. tenanted by strangers : the great London was to be henceforth his only hearth ; - beyond its shelter was he a stranger and a wanderer . Afrel is no watering - place , even in the most liberal sense of the word ... London ...
Alfred Austin. tenanted by strangers : the great London was to be henceforth his only hearth ; - beyond its shelter was he a stranger and a wanderer . Afrel is no watering - place , even in the most liberal sense of the word ... London ...
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... London to - morrow to enter at the Temple . " " I think you are wise . It takes a long time for a man to learn to do nothing , and with comfort . If you have the taste only , without the ' faculty divine , ' for poesy , legal studies ...
... London to - morrow to enter at the Temple . " " I think you are wise . It takes a long time for a man to learn to do nothing , and with comfort . If you have the taste only , without the ' faculty divine , ' for poesy , legal studies ...
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... London , flourishes there greener grass ; and here , in the rich autumn months , have I seen two or three score of carriages , in the day , with no mean coronets , and with even strawberry - leaves on the panels ( and the world , not I ...
... London , flourishes there greener grass ; and here , in the rich autumn months , have I seen two or three score of carriages , in the day , with no mean coronets , and with even strawberry - leaves on the panels ( and the world , not I ...
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Page 57 - SHUT, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land...
Page 190 - And shadows forth its glory. There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A Spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruined battlement, For which the Palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till Ages are its dower.
Page 132 - 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 Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.