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Thus , when Cowley tells us , that his mistress shed tears enough to save the
world if it had been on fire , we immediately think of a house on fire , ladders ,
engines , crowds of people , and other circumstances , which drive away every
thing ...
Thus , when Cowley tells us , that his mistress shed tears enough to save the
world if it had been on fire , we immediately think of a house on fire , ladders ,
engines , crowds of people , and other circumstances , which drive away every
thing ...
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Not caring to encounter fire - arms in so wild a place , I was turning back , when I
saw a dog hunting about among the bushes , and close after him a young man ,
who came running towards me , not to plunder , as I for an instant apprehended ...
Not caring to encounter fire - arms in so wild a place , I was turning back , when I
saw a dog hunting about among the bushes , and close after him a young man ,
who came running towards me , not to plunder , as I for an instant apprehended ...
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They fire it in every quarter - your houses are given to the fury of the element —
the sacred temples of religion are roofless and desolate — the institutions of piety
and liberality echo nothing but the shrieks of the despairing and the dying .
They fire it in every quarter - your houses are given to the fury of the element —
the sacred temples of religion are roofless and desolate — the institutions of piety
and liberality echo nothing but the shrieks of the despairing and the dying .
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Twas a day The hottest of the hottest summer - one Almost too hot for love , who's
fire itself : ' Twas afternoon - Angelica , poor girl , Had not , as usual , taken her
siesta , ( Why , is unknown - young ladies , it is said , Get fidgetty when near their
...
Twas a day The hottest of the hottest summer - one Almost too hot for love , who's
fire itself : ' Twas afternoon - Angelica , poor girl , Had not , as usual , taken her
siesta , ( Why , is unknown - young ladies , it is said , Get fidgetty when near their
...
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could make any effectual resistance , the whole village was on fire . It is
unnecessary to describe the conflagration , plunder , and havoc of that fearful
night . The red men were determined to avenge the wrongs they had sustained ;
and the ...
could make any effectual resistance , the whole village was on fire . It is
unnecessary to describe the conflagration , plunder , and havoc of that fearful
night . The red men were determined to avenge the wrongs they had sustained ;
and the ...
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Philadelphia Book, Or, Specimens of Metropolitan Literature |
| Autor | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau |
| Editor | Key & Biddle, 1836 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 28 Feb. 2006 |
| Largo | 380 páginas |
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