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" I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. "
The student's assistant, or learner's first guide to the English language - Page 124
by Antoine Alexandre Boniface - 1842
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The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind ...

1795 - 432 pages
...that I could not bring it nearer me, and that; the multitude of sad groupes in it did but distract me— I took a single "captive, and having first shut, him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture. I beheld his body half wasted...
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A sentimental journey through France and Italy

Laurence Sterne - 1802 - 284 pages
...•was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me — — I took a single captive ; and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked Ihrough the twilight of his grated door to take his picture. I beheld his body half wasted...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...that I could not bring it nearer in? , and that the multitude of sad groups in ii, did but distract me — I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his pic~ ture. I beheld his body half wasted...
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The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France ...

Laurence Sterne - 1805 - 430 pages
...•was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me — ' —I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to Uke his picture. I beheld his body half wasted...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...was, that I could not bring it nearer me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me — I took. a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture. I beheld his body half wasted...
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The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous ...

Laurence Sterne - 1810 - 292 pages
...was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me ——I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture. I beheld his body half wasted...
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The Gallery of Pictures Painted by Benjamin West Esqr. Historical Painter ...

Benjamin West - 1820 - 70 pages
...mitres, if it seems good unto thy divine providence, upon those heads which are aching for them. — " I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door, to take his picture. " I beheld his body half-wasted...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...andfeverish : in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood—he had seen no sun, no moon. —I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in a dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.. in aH that time—nor...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 5

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me — I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture. I beheld his body half wasted...
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The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in ...

Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...was, that 1 could not bring it nearer me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me — I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture. 1 beheld his body half wasted...
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