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... you are . Pray , walk in . Here , Jem , take the gentleman's horse to the stable - see him dressed and fed directly . Now , sir , will you please to follow me ? " A Mr. Wood then led the way up a rather 10 JACK SHEPPARD .
... you are . Pray , walk in . Here , Jem , take the gentleman's horse to the stable - see him dressed and fed directly . Now , sir , will you please to follow me ? " A Mr. Wood then led the way up a rather 10 JACK SHEPPARD .
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... walk'd , and we pined for excitement new . Oh ! how we did hail any shift in the gale , for it gave us a sail to trim ! We began to repent that we had not bent our steps with our comrades grim . And thus we sail'd on from old Panama ...
... walk'd , and we pined for excitement new . Oh ! how we did hail any shift in the gale , for it gave us a sail to trim ! We began to repent that we had not bent our steps with our comrades grim . And thus we sail'd on from old Panama ...
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... walking the street apparently in the highest health and spirits , till suddenly they were seized with giddiness , which did not throw them down , but spun them round and round , like sheep when afflicted by the complaint which is called ...
... walking the street apparently in the highest health and spirits , till suddenly they were seized with giddiness , which did not throw them down , but spun them round and round , like sheep when afflicted by the complaint which is called ...
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... walk in peaceful garb or wear the arms of a warrior : The cruelties of Sebert are no inore ; let those who have suffered injuries come to me , and I will right them . ' 6 " Wulfhere , ' answered Redwald , you are justly surnamed the ...
... walk in peaceful garb or wear the arms of a warrior : The cruelties of Sebert are no inore ; let those who have suffered injuries come to me , and I will right them . ' 6 " Wulfhere , ' answered Redwald , you are justly surnamed the ...
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... walk along the Middlesex bank of the river to the village of Twick- enham , and its old grey church , where Pope lies buried ! But , plea . santer still is it to take a boat , and be rowed up the middle of the stream , unlocking the ...
... walk along the Middlesex bank of the river to the village of Twick- enham , and its old grey church , where Pope lies buried ! But , plea . santer still is it to take a boat , and be rowed up the middle of the stream , unlocking the ...
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Page 476 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. "My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 77 - To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.
Page 145 - Thames' translucent wave Shines a broad mirror through the shadowy cave ; Where lingering drops from mineral roofs distil, And pointed crystals break the sparkling rill ; Unpolish'd gems no ray on pride bestow, And latent metals innocently glow ; Approach. Great nature studiously behold ! And eye the mine without a wish for gold. Approach ; but awful ! lo ! the ^Egerian grot, Where, nobly pensive, St.
Page 266 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Page 512 - It would be no crime in me to divert the Nile or Danube from its course, were I able to effect such purposes. Where then is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood from their natural channel?
Page 476 - Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again.' He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves.
Page 77 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 71 - Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest...
Page 356 - The particular talents by which these misanthropes are distinguished from one another, consist in the various kinds of barbarities which they execute upon their prisoners. Some are celebrated for a happy dexterity in tipping the lion upon them ; which is performed by squeezing the nose flat to the face, and boring out the eyes with their fingers.
Page 123 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.