The Idle Man, Bände 1-2Wiley and Halsted, 1821 |
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... to the arts of designing , engraving , and " etching historical and other prints . " G. L. THOMPSON , Clerk of the Southern District of New - York . PREFACE . HAVING perplexed myself for two or three hours AZ 1119.32 ...
... to the arts of designing , engraving , and " etching historical and other prints . " G. L. THOMPSON , Clerk of the Southern District of New - York . PREFACE . HAVING perplexed myself for two or three hours AZ 1119.32 ...
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PREFACE . HAVING perplexed myself for two or three hours , with trying in vain to fix upon a title for my book , I had taken an early cup of tea , by way of restorative , and was sitting in the twilight over a sleepy fire , having made ...
PREFACE . HAVING perplexed myself for two or three hours , with trying in vain to fix upon a title for my book , I had taken an early cup of tea , by way of restorative , and was sitting in the twilight over a sleepy fire , having made ...
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... . To know that our hour for toil is come , and that we are weak and unprepared― to feel that depression or lassitude are weighing us down , when we must feign lightness and When mirth - or to mock our secret griefs with 10.
... . To know that our hour for toil is come , and that we are weak and unprepared― to feel that depression or lassitude are weighing us down , when we must feign lightness and When mirth - or to mock our secret griefs with 10.
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... hour his proper nature to give us relief . She ministers to us with a hand so gentle , and speaks in a voice so calm and kind , and her very being is so much in all she does , that she seems at the moment one born only to heal our ...
... hour his proper nature to give us relief . She ministers to us with a hand so gentle , and speaks in a voice so calm and kind , and her very being is so much in all she does , that she seems at the moment one born only to heal our ...
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... hours they had sat together by the fire light , when he listened to her mild and melancholy voice , as she spoke of what she had undergone at the loss of her parents and husband . Her gentle rebuke of his faults , her affectionate look ...
... hours they had sat together by the fire light , when he listened to her mild and melancholy voice , as she spoke of what she had undergone at the loss of her parents and husband . Her gentle rebuke of his faults , her affectionate look ...
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Abel amongst ancholy answered arms asked Aston beautiful Beckford began bright called character cheerful choly countenance cried curse dared dark delight door drew earth Edward entered Esther eyes face father fear feel fell felt Frank give gone grave grief hand happy heard heart hour idle Isaac Kean knew leave lence light live look lovely stream manner Mary melan melancholy mind mother moved myste nature ness never night Othello passed passions Paul Paul's pheme racter rest ringdove round Sally Wentworth scarcely seemed sight soon soul sound speak spirit spoke stood strange suddenly talk tears tell thing Thomas Thornton Thornton Thorntonville thou thought Tom's took touched trees tremulous truth turned uttered various his employments voice walked WILEY & HALSTED woman world Calls idle
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Seite 57 - With amethyst and topaz — and the place Lit up, most royally, with the pure beam That dwells in them. Or haply the vast hall Of fairy palace, that outlasts the night...
Seite 63 - I envy thy stream, as it glides along, Through its beautiful banks, in a trance of song. Though forced to drudge for the dregs of men, And scrawl strange words with the barbarous pen, And mingle among the jostling crowd, Where the sons of strife are subtle and loud...
Seite 62 - Yet fair as thou art, thou shunnest to glide, Beautiful stream ! by the village side ; But windest away from haunts of men, To quiet valley and shaded glen ; And forest, and meadow, and slope of hill, Around thee, are lonely, lovely, and still.
Seite 74 - 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.
Seite 58 - Tis pleasant to behold the wreaths of smoke Roll up among the maples of the hill, Where the shrill sound of youthful voices wakes The shriller echo, as the clear pure lymph...
Seite 40 - Edgar as an insane brother, is another instance of the justness of Kean's conceptions. Nor does he lose the air of insanity, even in the fine moralizing parts, and where he inveighs against the corruptions of the world: There is a madness even in his reason.
Seite 57 - Come when the rains Have glazed the snow, and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach ! The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps, And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the...
Seite 3 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Seite 58 - Scarce stir the branches. Lodged in sunny cleft, Where the cold breezes come not, blooms alone The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at — Startling the loiterer in the naked groves With unexpected beauty, for the time Of blossoms and green leaves is yet afar.
Seite 57 - ... shall upbear thy steps, And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal ; each light spray, Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, That stream with rainbow radiance as they move. But round the parent stem the long low boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbors hide The glassy floor.