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... reason I may ask the favour of being deemed not remarkably superstitious on the subject of ghosts or of dreams ; and yet , but I shall let the reader see , and determine . - My childhood was passed in a remote district of Wales where ...
... reason I may ask the favour of being deemed not remarkably superstitious on the subject of ghosts or of dreams ; and yet , but I shall let the reader see , and determine . - My childhood was passed in a remote district of Wales where ...
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... reasons of course , per- suaded him to start for Parliament . There was a great deal of worry about it , and , as I heard , enormous expense ; but , after a trial or two in various quarters , he was at last suc- cessful , and returned ...
... reasons of course , per- suaded him to start for Parliament . There was a great deal of worry about it , and , as I heard , enormous expense ; but , after a trial or two in various quarters , he was at last suc- cessful , and returned ...
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... reason to believe , was at that moment in Wales . » He stood aghast for a moment , and his companions , evi- dently terrified at the turn affairs had taken , scrambled up as much booty as they could secure , and declaring that the game ...
... reason to believe , was at that moment in Wales . » He stood aghast for a moment , and his companions , evi- dently terrified at the turn affairs had taken , scrambled up as much booty as they could secure , and declaring that the game ...
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... reason whatever to fear . He has rather withdrawn from the field with his powers , if we may so ex- press ourselves , not yet fully developed ; for poets of a highly imaginative order do indeed grow very prematurely old . The richest ...
... reason whatever to fear . He has rather withdrawn from the field with his powers , if we may so ex- press ourselves , not yet fully developed ; for poets of a highly imaginative order do indeed grow very prematurely old . The richest ...
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... reason » -as if this was a reason for his being no poet ! Taking passage for pas- sage , I will undertake to cite more lines teeming with imagination , from Pope , than from any two living poets , be they who they may . To take an ...
... reason » -as if this was a reason for his being no poet ! Taking passage for pas- sage , I will undertake to cite more lines teeming with imagination , from Pope , than from any two living poets , be they who they may . To take an ...
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Página 371 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Página 172 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Página 229 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Página 116 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 359 - I never saw them afterwards, or any sign of them except three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes that were not fellows.
Página 90 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.— I'll talk to you, lady, but not beat you.
Página 358 - Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call ourselves, and write our name "Crusoe," and so my companions always called me.
Página 20 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Página 127 - For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Página 81 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.