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Page 17
... boy ! -good for the poet ! I beg your pardon - I was thinking aloud . You - you - I suppose , then , like me , have sufficient , should you wish it , VOL . I. с to support an idler - which the world thinks a FIVE YEARS OF IT . 17.
... boy ! -good for the poet ! I beg your pardon - I was thinking aloud . You - you - I suppose , then , like me , have sufficient , should you wish it , VOL . I. с to support an idler - which the world thinks a FIVE YEARS OF IT . 17.
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... a distance very long . On learning the nature of the occupation which he had interrupted , he expressed a wish to join in it . " Four horses each , now . Draw , Mr. Fairfort . Safe as the mail , this time , 34 FIVE YEARS OF IT .
... a distance very long . On learning the nature of the occupation which he had interrupted , he expressed a wish to join in it . " Four horses each , now . Draw , Mr. Fairfort . Safe as the mail , this time , 34 FIVE YEARS OF IT .
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... wish you joy ! Done , by the Lord Harry ! " " Oh , Frank , you interloper ! A pretty introduction to my friends . Larceny , at least . " " Betty Larceny - fill his- " and the would - be punster was , as usual , shouted down . This is ...
... wish you joy ! Done , by the Lord Harry ! " " Oh , Frank , you interloper ! A pretty introduction to my friends . Larceny , at least . " " Betty Larceny - fill his- " and the would - be punster was , as usual , shouted down . This is ...
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... wishes she could give me the distaff , and she assume the sword or the pen . You'll call on her and the governor to - morrow . What time will suit you ? I will call on you first . " Edgar was silent for a few seconds , though he was not ...
... wishes she could give me the distaff , and she assume the sword or the pen . You'll call on her and the governor to - morrow . What time will suit you ? I will call on you first . " Edgar was silent for a few seconds , though he was not ...
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... wish he had more judgment . When he published this ' Princess ' he showed that he could write a great many pages of nonsense without know- ing it ; and I have always fancied that judg- ment is requisite for all great success . " 66 ...
... wish he had more judgment . When he published this ' Princess ' he showed that he could write a great many pages of nonsense without know- ing it ; and I have always fancied that judg- ment is requisite for all great success . " 66 ...
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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.