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... fact our author not merely does not see why the exiled gangs in Siberia should be very much dis- contented with ... facts are to be compared with his conclusions and dicta , -for the climate of the regions described is one of dreadful ...
... fact our author not merely does not see why the exiled gangs in Siberia should be very much dis- contented with ... facts are to be compared with his conclusions and dicta , -for the climate of the regions described is one of dreadful ...
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... fact the main point upon which all the mercantile transactions of the empire turn . And yet the cultivation of the plant which yields this leaf is even in China limited to certain provinces ; only some of the more favourable parts of ...
... fact the main point upon which all the mercantile transactions of the empire turn . And yet the cultivation of the plant which yields this leaf is even in China limited to certain provinces ; only some of the more favourable parts of ...
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... almost fear those who have looked into the book will disbelieve us , but it is a fact we have read the poem through ; and a feat more nearly - approaching to the impossible we never performed ; nothing but 48 Nature a Parable .
... almost fear those who have looked into the book will disbelieve us , but it is a fact we have read the poem through ; and a feat more nearly - approaching to the impossible we never performed ; nothing but 48 Nature a Parable .
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... fact . Such utter nonsense - such hopeless trash - such in- comprehensible absurdities — we never yet saw or heard of ; and hence , a work more annoyingly difficult to review we have seldom encoun- tered . Folly , too glaring to be ...
... fact . Such utter nonsense - such hopeless trash - such in- comprehensible absurdities — we never yet saw or heard of ; and hence , a work more annoyingly difficult to review we have seldom encoun- tered . Folly , too glaring to be ...
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... fact , what we call country life in England is here unknown . Far and wide , the country , without a single fence , covered with corn and vegetables , as seen from the heights which bounded it , presented a most singular appearance to ...
... fact , what we call country life in England is here unknown . Far and wide , the country , without a single fence , covered with corn and vegetables , as seen from the heights which bounded it , presented a most singular appearance to ...
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Page 126 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Page 252 - I wooed the blue-eyed maid, Yielding, yet half afraid, And in the forest's shade Our vows were plighted. Under its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted.
Page 253 - THE RAINY DAY. THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 252 - But when I older grew, Joining a corsair's crew, O'er the dark sea I flew With the marauders. Wild was the life we led ; Many the souls that sped, Many the hearts that bled, By our stern orders. " Many a wassail-bout Wore the long Winter out ; Often our midnight shout Set the cocks crowing, As we the Berserk's tale Measured in cups of ale, Draining the oaken pail, Filled to o'erflowing.
Page 251 - Pale flashes seemed to rise, As when the Northern skies Gleam in December ; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber.
Page 411 - ... hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people...
Page 252 - Oft to his frozen lair Tracked I the grisly bear, While from my path the hare Fled like a shadow ; Oft through the forest dark Followed the werewolf's bark, Until the soaring lark Sang from the meadow. " But when I older grew, Joining a corsair's crew, O'er the dark sea I flew With the marauders.
Page 226 - return to him, and to them that sent you hither, and say to them that they send no more to me for any adventure that falleth, as long as my son is alive. And also say to them that they suffer him this day to win his spurs; for if God be pleased, I will this journey be his and the honour thereof, and to them that be about him.
Page 411 - I would establish but one great general rule to be observed in all conversation, which is this, "that men should not talk to please themselves, but those that hear them." This would make them consider, whether what they speak be worth hearing; whether there be either wit or sense in what they are about to say; and, whether it be adapted to the time when, the place where, and the person to whom, it is spoken.
Page 210 - the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age, and all at eighteen ; the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor, for her parent's offences.