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... the girl , we might do it . " " No - no , " laughed Jack . " Bess would'nt bear a rival . But if you wish to do old Wood a friendly turn , you may bring off his wife . " 2 DIE SON 1 1720- - - · 160 m JACK SHEPPARD . 15.
... the girl , we might do it . " " No - no , " laughed Jack . " Bess would'nt bear a rival . But if you wish to do old Wood a friendly turn , you may bring off his wife . " 2 DIE SON 1 1720- - - · 160 m JACK SHEPPARD . 15.
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... wish to have a translation . Here it is . " Inventory of the effects of Charles Joseph Amé des Auguste de la Vesse , Comte des Oripeaux , Officer of the Legion of Honour and of the Iron Crown , Colonel of Cavalry , & c & c . 66 “ I. A ...
... wish to have a translation . Here it is . " Inventory of the effects of Charles Joseph Amé des Auguste de la Vesse , Comte des Oripeaux , Officer of the Legion of Honour and of the Iron Crown , Colonel of Cavalry , & c & c . 66 “ I. A ...
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... wish was quell'd , though our hearts rebell'd , by old Morgan's stormy гоаг , - " The way ye have sped is farther to tread , than the way which lies before . " So on we march'd upon Panama , We , the mighty Buccaneers ! ' T was just ...
... wish was quell'd , though our hearts rebell'd , by old Morgan's stormy гоаг , - " The way ye have sped is farther to tread , than the way which lies before . " So on we march'd upon Panama , We , the mighty Buccaneers ! ' T was just ...
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... wish to retire , + I'm weary of dealing in hearts : I've a large stock on hand , which I hope you'll admire + I'll sell them en gros or in parts . 11 . " N ° 1 is a lot that I started with first + They were Sweethearts - poor sensitive ...
... wish to retire , + I'm weary of dealing in hearts : I've a large stock on hand , which I hope you'll admire + I'll sell them en gros or in parts . 11 . " N ° 1 is a lot that I started with first + They were Sweethearts - poor sensitive ...
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... wishes . But as you have thought to honour me above all the maidens that you have ever seen , to bestow upon me the prize that the fairest of my sex are sighing for , it is but right that I should tell you , that though I would serve ...
... wishes . But as you have thought to honour me above all the maidens that you have ever seen , to bestow upon me the prize that the fairest of my sex are sighing for , it is but right that I should tell you , that though I would serve ...
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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.