Tales and SketchesJ. & J. Harper, 1829 - 248 páginas |
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... sound his hurried tread . LARA . WHILE Our hero is endeavouring to forget , in the temporary oblivion of slumber , the cares and anxious forebodings occasioned by the circumstances related in he previous chapter , perhaps the reader ...
... sound his hurried tread . LARA . WHILE Our hero is endeavouring to forget , in the temporary oblivion of slumber , the cares and anxious forebodings occasioned by the circumstances related in he previous chapter , perhaps the reader ...
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... sound , which poetry , with all its high reachings , cannot describe . As I have said , there was nothing particularly beau- tiful in the abode of William Woodville ; yet I have no hope to convey to the reader an accurate idea of its ...
... sound , which poetry , with all its high reachings , cannot describe . As I have said , there was nothing particularly beau- tiful in the abode of William Woodville ; yet I have no hope to convey to the reader an accurate idea of its ...
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... sound died away , like the far - off mutterings of thunder . The report started Eleanor , the ruffled state of whose mind rendered her easily susceptible of fear . An indefinite presentiment of some dreadful evil passed , like a cloud ...
... sound died away , like the far - off mutterings of thunder . The report started Eleanor , the ruffled state of whose mind rendered her easily susceptible of fear . An indefinite presentiment of some dreadful evil passed , like a cloud ...
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... sound proceeded , and there , stretched out in the broad light of the moon , and in the last agonies of dissolution , I beheld the unhappy Thornton . He recognised me as I approached him , and in a voice which yet sounds in my ear ...
... sound proceeded , and there , stretched out in the broad light of the moon , and in the last agonies of dissolution , I beheld the unhappy Thornton . He recognised me as I approached him , and in a voice which yet sounds in my ear ...
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William Leggett. in , in the direction of the sound , I thought to discover the miscreant . But it proved to be David , like myself , attracted to the spot by the report of the gun . He was terrified when I told him of the murder that ...
William Leggett. in , in the direction of the sound , I thought to discover the miscreant . But it proved to be David , like myself , attracted to the spot by the report of the gun . He was terrified when I told him of the murder that ...
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acquaintance agitated Amelia answered apartment arrival Ashford beautiful Betty boat bosom Buckhorn Cæsar called Captain Belton Catharine Charles Rivington cheeks circumstances cloak countenance court cried Dayton death Doctor door dress ejaculated Eleanor Emma endeavoured eyes Facias Fanny feelings fell fire Fred Gerard glance guilty hand happy heard heart heaven hero honour horse hostler hour innocence judge Judy jury landlord lawyer length linsey-woolsey lips looking magistrate massa master mind morning Mungo murder nature ness New-York night occasion occurrence OTHELLO pale passed person poor prairie prisoner racter ratline reached reader replied returned rifle road Rumley sailer scarcely scene Searchly seat seemed seen side Silversight sloop soon Squatter Stanley steamboat stranger Summerville taffarel tears thing thought tion tone took trembling turned uncon vessel village voice vols whisper wide prairies William Wilson witness Woodville words young
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Página 20 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape.
Página 189 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart, Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange: Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Página 89 - On beds of green sea-flowers thy limbs shall be laid; Around thy white bo-nes the red coral shall grow ; Of thy fair yellow locks threads of amber be made ; And every part suit to thy mansion below.
Página 188 - Sincerity, Thou first of virtues! let no mortal leave Thy onward path, although the earth should gape, And from the gulf of hell destruction cry, To take dissimulation's winding way.
Página 20 - And also to the act, entitled, " An act supplementary to an act, entitled, ' An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.