The Christmas tree [ed. by G.F. Pardon].George Frederick Pardon 1856 |
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... possessed on earth , to have called you , wife ! My soul cried out for you ' with groan- ings that could not be uttered . ' " For a month , Blanche , I was nearly crazy . I did nothing . I shut myself up , and never closed my eyes . I ...
... possessed on earth , to have called you , wife ! My soul cried out for you ' with groan- ings that could not be uttered . ' " For a month , Blanche , I was nearly crazy . I did nothing . I shut myself up , and never closed my eyes . I ...
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... possess the same * ་ ་ FALCON . daring and fero- cious character . Formed for rapid flight , they dart upon the smaller birds with great fierceness , striking them to the earth with a single blow . But Falcons are capable of being ...
... possess the same * ་ ་ FALCON . daring and fero- cious character . Formed for rapid flight , they dart upon the smaller birds with great fierceness , striking them to the earth with a single blow . But Falcons are capable of being ...
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... possess no song . Instead of making the woods vocal with melody , their cries and shrieks startle the echoes with discordant noises . Unlike the song - birds of our own dear country , they appear incapable of association with mankind ...
... possess no song . Instead of making the woods vocal with melody , their cries and shrieks startle the echoes with discordant noises . Unlike the song - birds of our own dear country , they appear incapable of association with mankind ...
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... possessing a back- bone . There are two kinds of fishes- those which bring forth their young alive and those which produce them by spawn , which is hatched by the heat of the water . The cetaceous and cartilaginous kinds - that is ...
... possessing a back- bone . There are two kinds of fishes- those which bring forth their young alive and those which produce them by spawn , which is hatched by the heat of the water . The cetaceous and cartilaginous kinds - that is ...
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... possess no sense in so exquisite a degree as other creatures . Their eyes are flat , and they can probably only distinguish light and objects sufficiently well to avoid each other , and to seize their bait or prey . They have probably ...
... possess no sense in so exquisite a degree as other creatures . Their eyes are flat , and they can probably only distinguish light and objects sufficiently well to avoid each other , and to seize their bait or prey . They have probably ...
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actress Alma amuse animals Aunt Harriett battle beautiful bird Blanche Leslie bless Boa Constrictor bright Buffalo called Charley child Christmas Tree Constantinople Cousin Rosa Crystal Palace Cuckoo curls darling dart dead dear dream Eagle earth Elephant eyes Falconry father feet fishes forest Frogs girl glass Grafton Green green Gulf of Finland hand heart Hippopotamus Indian inhabitants kinds knew Lady Clara land leave light Lion Lionel Hunter little Cuckoo little Ida live looked Lord Raglan mother native nest never night ocean once palaces Paris Pearl Petersburg poor pretty prey Ragged School reptiles river round Russians seen Shark ships soon soul South America story stream sweet Sword Fish tears tell thought thousand told Turkey Turks Uncle George voice walked watch weary Whale wild wings wounded young Zoological Gardens
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Página 144 - Leaf after leaf he turned it o'er, Nor ever glanced aside — For the peace of his soul he read that book In the golden eventide; Much study had made him very lean, And pale, and leaden-eyed.
Página 145 - He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about their brain • For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain !
Página 147 - And now from forth the frowning sky, from the heaven's topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice of the blood-avenging sprite : ' Thou guilty man, take up thy dead, and hide it from my sight...
Página 143 - TWAS in the prime of summer time, An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school : There were some that ran and some that leapt, Like troutlets in a pool. Away they sped with gamesome minds, And souls untouched by sin; To a level mead they came, and there They drave the wickets in : Pleasantly shone the setting sun Over the town of Lynn. Like sportive deer they coursed about, And shouted as they ran, — Turning to mirth all things of earth, As only...
Página 146 - One that had never done me wrong, A feeble man and old ; I led him to a lonely field, The moon shone clear and cold : Now here, said I, this man shall die, And I will have his gold ! "Two sudden blows with ragged stick.
Página 88 - Such as gleam in ancient lore ; And the singing of the sailors, And the answer from the shore ! Most of all, the Spanish ballad Haunts me oft, and tarries long, Of the noble Count Arnaldos And the sailor's mystic song.
Página 149 - With breathless speed, like a soul in chase, I took him up and ran;— There was no time to dig a grave Before the day began: In a lonesome wood, with heaps of leaves, I hid the murdered man! "And all that day I read in school, But my thought was other where; As soon as the mid-day task was done, In secret I was there: And a mighty wind had swept the leaves, And still the corse was bare!
Página 149 - As soon as the mid-day task was done, In secret I was there : And a mighty wind had swept the leaves, And still the corse was bare ! " Then down I cast me on my face And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep : Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep.
Página 145 - The Usher took six hasty strides, As smit with sudden pain, — Six hasty strides beyond the place, Then slowly back again ; And down he sat beside the lad, And...
Página 118 - Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many...