The Philadelphia Book, Or, Specimens of Metropolitan LiteratureKey & Biddle, 1836 - 380 páginas |
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... rest assured they were friends , for they did join in carrying the instrument ; they must , from their proximity of situation , have been amicably dispo- sed , and if one alone carried the utensil , it exhibits an amiable assumption of ...
... rest assured they were friends , for they did join in carrying the instrument ; they must , from their proximity of situation , have been amicably dispo- sed , and if one alone carried the utensil , it exhibits an amiable assumption of ...
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... rest . These respites from toil were of use , but they could not enable me to prosecute an endless journey , and to return was scarcely a less arduous task than to pro- ceed . I looked anxiously forward in the hope of being com- forted ...
... rest . These respites from toil were of use , but they could not enable me to prosecute an endless journey , and to return was scarcely a less arduous task than to pro- ceed . I looked anxiously forward in the hope of being com- forted ...
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... rest . The length'ning lines of watch - fires rose , The wearied armies sought repose , The soldier , stretch'd upon the soil , Courted oblivion of his toil . Upon the morning of that day , The far - responding reveillé Had summon'd in ...
... rest . The length'ning lines of watch - fires rose , The wearied armies sought repose , The soldier , stretch'd upon the soil , Courted oblivion of his toil . Upon the morning of that day , The far - responding reveillé Had summon'd in ...
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... rest . Her face may have had " intellectual beauty , " and her exterior , when animated by the play of her faculties , ceased to be repulsive ; but the whole woman was not of the description that awakens and perpetuates the sublime ...
... rest . Her face may have had " intellectual beauty , " and her exterior , when animated by the play of her faculties , ceased to be repulsive ; but the whole woman was not of the description that awakens and perpetuates the sublime ...
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... rest that night , if he rested at all , under a roof subject to these domiciliary visits : but he had other causes of uneasiness . It is well known that all the inhabitants within the reach of an English garrison , who are capable of ...
... rest that night , if he rested at all , under a roof subject to these domiciliary visits : but he had other causes of uneasiness . It is well known that all the inhabitants within the reach of an English garrison , who are capable of ...
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Página 319 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 321 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Página 284 - ... government seems to me a part of religion itself, a thing sacred in its institution and end...
Página 81 - Fresh pleasure only : for the attentive mind, By this harmonious action on her powers, Becomes herself harmonious : wont so oft In outward things to meditate the charm Of sacred order, soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspired delight : her temper'd powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien.
Página 29 - Jack and Gill went up the hill To draw a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after.
Página 193 - ... upon one, the hall of which was open, and the windows lifted. After knocking for some time, a young girl appeared, with many marks of distress. In answer to my question, she answered that both her parents were sick, and that they could receive no one. I inquired, in vain, for any other tavern at which strangers might be accommodated. She knew of none such; and left me, on some one's calling to her from above, in the midst of my embarrassment. After a moment's pause, I returned, discomforted and...
Página 208 - The worms from the webs, where they riot and welter: His song and his services freely are ours, And all that he asks is — in summer a shelter. The plowman is pleased when he gleans in his train.
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Página 80 - By kind illusions of the wondering sense Thou mak'st all Nature beauty to his eye, Or music to his ear...
Página 207 - He flits through the orchard, he visits each tree, The red flowering peach, and the apple's sweet blossoms ; He snaps up destroyers wherever they be, And seizes the caitiffs that lurk in their bosoms ; He drags the vile grub from the corn it devours, The worms from their beds where they riot and welter ; His song and his services freely are ours, And all that he asks is, in summer a shelter.