Cooper's Novels, Volume 5Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... honour to form a sort of literary clientelle , will never tire of reading . Our chief concern , on the present occasion , is on the subject of the contrast we have attempted to draw between profound belief and light - hearted in ...
... honour to form a sort of literary clientelle , will never tire of reading . Our chief concern , on the present occasion , is on the subject of the contrast we have attempted to draw between profound belief and light - hearted in ...
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... honoured the place with his presence , and his deputy was a professional man , a native of the town , whose original position was too well known to allow him to give himself airs on the spot where he was born . Ghita's companions , then ...
... honoured the place with his presence , and his deputy was a professional man , a native of the town , whose original position was too well known to allow him to give himself airs on the spot where he was born . Ghita's companions , then ...
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... honour the flag . I fear this stranger does not intend to enter our harbour ! " 66 " He steers as if he did not , certainly , Signor Podestâ , " said Ghita , sighing so gently that the respiration was audible only to herself . Perhaps ...
... honour the flag . I fear this stranger does not intend to enter our harbour ! " 66 " He steers as if he did not , certainly , Signor Podestâ , " said Ghita , sighing so gently that the respiration was audible only to herself . Perhaps ...
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... honour of your company , at his house , which stands so near us , hard by here , in the principal street , as will make it only a pleasure to go there ; I know he would be disappointed , if he failed of the happiness of seeing you ...
... honour of your company , at his house , which stands so near us , hard by here , in the principal street , as will make it only a pleasure to go there ; I know he would be disappointed , if he failed of the happiness of seeing you ...
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... honours of the port . ' " " This was said so civilly , and was , in itself , both so reason . able and so much in conformity with usage , that the other had not a word to say against it . Together , then , they left the house , and ...
... honours of the port . ' " " This was said so civilly , and was , in itself , both so reason . able and so much in conformity with usage , that the other had not a word to say against it . Together , then , they left the house , and ...
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Page 7 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar Comes down upon the waters, all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse ; And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 168 - Returned the Chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — "Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 156 - Wearied, I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
Page 104 - He saw with his own eyes the moon was round, Was also certain that the earth was square, Because he had journey'd fifty miles, and found No sign that it was circular anywhere...