Titan, Volume 23James Hogg, 1856 |
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... hand fondly on her head , and she turned round with a quick caressing gesture specially her own , and kissed the shrivelled , kind hand . ' You are quite happy here , Caroline , are you not ? ' he said , after a little while . She was ...
... hand fondly on her head , and she turned round with a quick caressing gesture specially her own , and kissed the shrivelled , kind hand . ' You are quite happy here , Caroline , are you not ? ' he said , after a little while . She was ...
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... hand shook as she gave him his second cup of tea . However , it proved to be no arrival , and Caroline went on talking , while the old gentleman sipped his tea , and listened in a very genial frame of mind . Nevertheless , he looked ...
... hand shook as she gave him his second cup of tea . However , it proved to be no arrival , and Caroline went on talking , while the old gentleman sipped his tea , and listened in a very genial frame of mind . Nevertheless , he looked ...
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... hand , to draw from his pocket a morocco case of ominous ap- pearance . ' What do you think it is ? What should you like best ? ' ' I shall like anything . ' ' But I don't want you to be so easily pleased . I ransacked half the shops in ...
... hand , to draw from his pocket a morocco case of ominous ap- pearance . ' What do you think it is ? What should you like best ? ' ' I shall like anything . ' ' But I don't want you to be so easily pleased . I ransacked half the shops in ...
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... hand with faith . To all this we may come in time . Thank God , he gives a special heritage to every time of life ... hands and receive , the good that is . There was no looking back , no looking forward even , and still less any regret ...
... hand with faith . To all this we may come in time . Thank God , he gives a special heritage to every time of life ... hands and receive , the good that is . There was no looking back , no looking forward even , and still less any regret ...
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... hand- some young man of about six - and - twenty , with noble features and a graceful carriage . He had on an old , well - worn surtout , and boots which still bore the marks of yesterday's travel . His round hat , although originally ...
... hand- some young man of about six - and - twenty , with noble features and a graceful carriage . He had on an old , well - worn surtout , and boots which still bore the marks of yesterday's travel . His round hat , although originally ...
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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...