The Bachelors, and Other Tales, Founded on American Incidents and CharacterJ. and W. Sandford, 1836 - 216 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... nights of meeting , Rus- sell assured his friends that each of them were now worth an hundred thousand dollars in addition to their former fortunes ; and that he had been equally successful himself THE BACHELORS . 11.
... nights of meeting , Rus- sell assured his friends that each of them were now worth an hundred thousand dollars in addition to their former fortunes ; and that he had been equally successful himself THE BACHELORS . 11.
Pagina 12
... night , they had signed a paper , ( of which each took a copy , ) that he should forfeit the pledge of honor which held them together , whoever might enter the bonds of matrimony , or suffer any woman to call him husband . They then ...
... night , they had signed a paper , ( of which each took a copy , ) that he should forfeit the pledge of honor which held them together , whoever might enter the bonds of matrimony , or suffer any woman to call him husband . They then ...
Pagina 19
... night was an awful one to him he saw the stars performing their destined courses , while the moon was riding in majesty over his head . silence was distressing . No sound broke the stillness of the night : the long , sighing breaths of ...
... night was an awful one to him he saw the stars performing their destined courses , while the moon was riding in majesty over his head . silence was distressing . No sound broke the stillness of the night : the long , sighing breaths of ...
Pagina 20
... night , drawing no other consolation than that which arose from believing that his wounds were not mortal . By many marches , he was conveyed to the much distin- guished residence of the tribe to whom he was now a pris- oner . They knew ...
... night , drawing no other consolation than that which arose from believing that his wounds were not mortal . By many marches , he was conveyed to the much distin- guished residence of the tribe to whom he was now a pris- oner . They knew ...
Pagina 28
... night , and lift our thoughts to heaven . " This He carried his devotion to his loved star , and to the whole host of the skies , so far , that some began to think him so much under the influence of the moon or stars , that he was not ...
... night , and lift our thoughts to heaven . " This He carried his devotion to his loved star , and to the whole host of the skies , so far , that some began to think him so much under the influence of the moon or stars , that he was not ...
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The Bachelors, and Other Tales, Founded on American Incidents and Character Samuel Lorenzo Knapp Volledige weergave - 1836 |
The Bachelors, and Other Tales, Founded on American Incidents and Character Samuel Lorenzo Knapp Volledige weergave - 1836 |
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Pagina 201 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Pagina 173 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Pagina 28 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to...
Pagina 173 - A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt; And, in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things, that no gross ear can hear; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th
Pagina 28 - ... earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven.
Pagina 201 - But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heav'n-directed spire to rise ? " The Man of Ross" — each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The man of Ross...
Pagina 207 - To caves bestrew'd with many a mouldering bone, And cells, whose echoes only learn to groan ; Where no kind bars a whispering friend disclose, No sunbeam enters, and no zephyr blows ; HE treads, inemulous of fame or wealth, Profuse of toil, and prodigal of health; With soft assuasive eloquence expands Power's rigid heart, and opes his clenching hands ; Leads stern-eyed Justice to the dark. domains, If not to sever, to relax the chains ; Or guides awakcn'd Mercy through the gloom, And shows the prison,...
Pagina 1 - ... sake ; To written wisdom, as another's, less ; Maxims are drawn from notions, these from guess. There's some peculiar in each leaf and grain, Some...
Pagina 111 - By the sun, and its rising brightness; by the moon, when she followeth him; by the day, when it showeth his splendor; by the night, when it covereth him with darkness; by the heaven, and him who built it; by the earth, and him who spread it forth; by the soul, and him who...
Pagina 207 - Mercy through the gloom, And shows the prison, sister to the tomb ! — Gives to her babes the self-devoted wife, To her fond husband liberty and life ! — — The spirits of the good, who bend from high Wide o'er these earthly scenes their partial eye, When first, array 'd in Virtue's purest robe, They saw her Howard traversing the globe ; Saw round his brows her sun-like glory blaze In arrowy circles of unwearied rays ; Mistook a mortal for an angel-guest, And ask'd what seraph-foot the earth...