The Gleaner: Or, Selections in Prose and PoetryNew England Galaxy, 1830 - 238 páginas |
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... stood as firm as a gnarled oak , and as rugged too , re- pelling all attack - and now and then returning a blow whose force was the more tremendous because wholly unexpected . He was a farmer , a tanner and a shoemaker - but most of all ...
... stood as firm as a gnarled oak , and as rugged too , re- pelling all attack - and now and then returning a blow whose force was the more tremendous because wholly unexpected . He was a farmer , a tanner and a shoemaker - but most of all ...
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... stood and doubted . Philosophers may stop here and speculate . They may reason on the subject to their hearts ' content - I defy them to imagine the final conduct - the ultimate election of our hero . Some will fancy that like Mahomet's ...
... stood and doubted . Philosophers may stop here and speculate . They may reason on the subject to their hearts ' content - I defy them to imagine the final conduct - the ultimate election of our hero . Some will fancy that like Mahomet's ...
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... stood a structure of deal , called by courtesy in the inventory which last enrolled it , a table . Some fifty unopened weeklys , dailys and other ephermera were tossed into one of its corners ; a pair of scissors , some curiously cut ...
... stood a structure of deal , called by courtesy in the inventory which last enrolled it , a table . Some fifty unopened weeklys , dailys and other ephermera were tossed into one of its corners ; a pair of scissors , some curiously cut ...
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... stood erect , touched the ceiling with his wig , stared or squinted— indeed , looked any way but the right way . At last , with mouth wide open ( and none of the smallest ) and stomach heaving , he with some difficulty recovered his ...
... stood erect , touched the ceiling with his wig , stared or squinted— indeed , looked any way but the right way . At last , with mouth wide open ( and none of the smallest ) and stomach heaving , he with some difficulty recovered his ...
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... stood before me though not in cuerpo , yet next to it , in his bare tunic , with an air of mingled exhaustion and complacency that was contagious to behold . O ! but he did cut a bold figure ! Such a manly face , tanned and weather ...
... stood before me though not in cuerpo , yet next to it , in his bare tunic , with an air of mingled exhaustion and complacency that was contagious to behold . O ! but he did cut a bold figure ! Such a manly face , tanned and weather ...
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admiration arms astonishment beautiful beneath boatswain body Boswell breath Cabot Calamus canoe Cape Bauld coach culottes dark Deacon Marvin dear death devil Doloris door drew English Esquimaux exclaimed eyes face father fear feel feet fell fellow fire fish gazed gentleman glass Grampus grave hand happy head heard heart Heaven Hinglish horse hour Jean Bart judge lady laugh legs looked Lord Ludovico Sforza mainsail Mariano mind morning never night once Paganini poor Prince of Conti replied rock round sail savage schooner Sebastian seemed shore shot sight Simon Sisera soon soul sound spirit stood story tea-pot tears tell thee thing thou thought tion Tom Hodges took turn Twas Uncle Sam violin Vivenzio voice watch wife William dear word young
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Página 111 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Página 50 - She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lip, and a tear in her eye.
Página 34 - You're sitting on your window-seat, Beneath a cloudless moon ; You hear a sound that seems to wear The semblance of a tune, As if a broken fife should strive To drown a cracked bassoon. And nearer, nearer still, the tide Of music seems to come ; There's something like a human voice, And something like a drum ; You sit in speechless agony, Until your ear is numb. Poor
Página 35 - No ! Pay the dentist when he leaves A fracture in your jaw, And pay the owner of the bear That stunned you with his paw, And buy the lobster that has had Your knuckles in his claw ; But if you are a portly man, Put on your fiercest frown, And talk about a constable To turn them out of town ; Then close your sentence with an oath, And shut the window down...
Página 34 - You think they are crusaders, sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, And dock the tail of Rhyme, To crack the voice of Melody, And break the legs of Time.
Página 16 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a...
Página 236 - ... light which faintly struggled through the ONE SOLITARY window of his dungeon. He could hardly be said to notice the melancholy token. And yet he did notice it ; for as he raised his eyes and saw the portentous sign, there was a slight convulsive distortion of his countenance. But what did attract his notice, and at the sight of which his agitation was excessive, was the change his iron bed had undergone. It was a bed no longer. It stood before him, the visible semblance of a funeral couch or...
Página 232 - ... were so near, that in six paces he trod the space between them. Vivenzio shuddered as he gazed, and as his steps traversed the narrowed area. But his feelings no longer vented themselves in frantic . wailings. With folded arms, and clenched teeth, with eyes that were bloodshot from much watching, and fixed...
Página 19 - SWEET MEMORY, wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy-haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.
Página 224 - ... as the other, while the food was changed for some other of better quality. He had been visited therefore during the night. But how had the person obtained entrance ? Could he have slept so soundly that the unlocking and opening of those ponderous portals were effected without waking him ? He would have said this was not possible, but that in doing so he must admit a greater difficulty, an entrance by other means, of which he was convinced there existed none. It was not intended, then, that he...