Titan, Volume 23James Hogg, 1856 |
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... able to say more . Yet the next thought rose to her lips , ' I hope Vaughan will like it , ' clouding the perfect sunshine . ' Pshaw ! ' cried Mr Hesketh , laughing , half impatiently ; ' he isn't so foolish as not to like it . And be ...
... able to say more . Yet the next thought rose to her lips , ' I hope Vaughan will like it , ' clouding the perfect sunshine . ' Pshaw ! ' cried Mr Hesketh , laughing , half impatiently ; ' he isn't so foolish as not to like it . And be ...
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... able , pathetic , and effective . It may be said , without fear of contradiction , that this is the style of the men of the most refined and cultivated habits , who possess the natural gift of oratory . But , amongst the forty thousand ...
... able , pathetic , and effective . It may be said , without fear of contradiction , that this is the style of the men of the most refined and cultivated habits , who possess the natural gift of oratory . But , amongst the forty thousand ...
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... able to pay an agent it is a different thing ; and when the case is out of the usual run and at all extraordinary , it has a chance of being better managed , but in such common cases as those of theft , ha- bit and repute , and previous ...
... able to pay an agent it is a different thing ; and when the case is out of the usual run and at all extraordinary , it has a chance of being better managed , but in such common cases as those of theft , ha- bit and repute , and previous ...
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... able to survive , ' Monday , March 8. Egan and Salmon , the other two thief - takers , stood in the pillory in Smithfield , when the former soon received a mortal wound , of which he soon after died , and the latter many mise- rable ...
... able to survive , ' Monday , March 8. Egan and Salmon , the other two thief - takers , stood in the pillory in Smithfield , when the former soon received a mortal wound , of which he soon after died , and the latter many mise- rable ...
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... able to conquer my timidity , even in the most righteous cause . Twice , with an agony as if I were about to commit a crime , I endeavoured to break ground . Memory , words , and voice failed me . The sweat started in great dreps on my ...
... able to conquer my timidity , even in the most righteous cause . Twice , with an agony as if I were about to commit a crime , I endeavoured to break ground . Memory , words , and voice failed me . The sweat started in great dreps on my ...
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Page 72 - There has not been a lawsuit in the parish since he has lived among them ; if any dispute arises, they apply themselves to him for the decision ; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me. At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him, that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly, he has digested them into...
Page 193 - Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Page 306 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Page 285 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus. By the earthshaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
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Page 193 - No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime. Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
Page 284 - We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart...
Page 192 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain From mortal or immortal minds.
Page 283 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Page 52 - Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in, the beauty of a thousand stars...