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... Speak , Making the , ' 595 Japan as it Was and Is , 87 Alley , the Lily of the , 1 , 20 Earl of Minto , the First , 593 Jungle , a Night in the , 263 Allmends , Swiss , 612 Eccentric Exhibitors , 606 Keiths , Story of the ( w . c ...
... Speak , Making the , ' 595 Japan as it Was and Is , 87 Alley , the Lily of the , 1 , 20 Earl of Minto , the First , 593 Jungle , a Night in the , 263 Allmends , Swiss , 612 Eccentric Exhibitors , 606 Keiths , Story of the ( w . c ...
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Chambers's journal. Just as he ceased speaking , there appeared a respectable - looking woman of middle age , clad in ... speak from the worldly point of view , above piety clothed in rags , which , as we know , always commands , or ought ...
Chambers's journal. Just as he ceased speaking , there appeared a respectable - looking woman of middle age , clad in ... speak from the worldly point of view , above piety clothed in rags , which , as we know , always commands , or ought ...
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... speak with such superb contempt . Pride is a dangerous counsellor , Violet , my love , and if you are wise , you will grow humbler . You saw how much more reasonable a view of his position was taken , but half an hour since , by your ...
... speak with such superb contempt . Pride is a dangerous counsellor , Violet , my love , and if you are wise , you will grow humbler . You saw how much more reasonable a view of his position was taken , but half an hour since , by your ...
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... speak , is always going on . The ice - river is ever assuming shape at the upper , and breaking off or melting at ... speaking inhabitants of Savoy . Névé is the rudimental condition of ice formed by pressure applied to snow . We have a ...
... speak , is always going on . The ice - river is ever assuming shape at the upper , and breaking off or melting at ... speaking inhabitants of Savoy . Névé is the rudimental condition of ice formed by pressure applied to snow . We have a ...
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... speak , in certain contingencies . But now the actual hour had arrived , the reality was so much more terrible than the anticipation of it had been , that she was quite silent and passive . ' Speak , Violet , and tell them - tell us ...
... speak , in certain contingencies . But now the actual hour had arrived , the reality was so much more terrible than the anticipation of it had been , that she was quite silent and passive . ' Speak , Violet , and tell them - tell us ...
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Page 212 - Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn...
Page 55 - Haste me to know it, that I, with wings as swift As meditation, or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.
Page 53 - That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 53 - You owe this strange intelligence? or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you. [Witches vanish. Ban. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them.
Page 237 - The moon in halos hid her head ; The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For, see, a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ! Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are looking nigh.
Page 53 - Were such things here, as we do speak about? Or have we eaten of the insane root, That takes the reason prisoner ? Macb.
Page 355 - I lost all connection with external things ; trains of vivid visible images rapidly passed through my mind, and were connected with words in such a manner, as to produce perceptions perfectly novel. I existed in a world of newly connected and newly modified ideas : I theorised, I imagined that I made discoveries.
Page 355 - Kinglake, who took the bag from my mouth, indignation and pride were the first feelings produced by the sight of the persons about me. My emotions were enthusiastic and sublime ; and for a minute I walked round the room, perfectly regardless of what was said to me. As I recovered my former state of mind I felt an inclination to communicate the discoveries I had made during the experiment. I...
Page 289 - Then after we had stayed there three hours or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the...
Page 289 - ... and rivers ; and then, they being come to the place, do lie down on the ground, till those foresaid scouts, which are called the...