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... hope still is , the signal for rural pastimes and innocent recreation . The luscious breath of the balmy air , which awakened the flowers , the buds , and the birds ; which set the insects humming in the sunshine , and invited the ...
... hope still is , the signal for rural pastimes and innocent recreation . The luscious breath of the balmy air , which awakened the flowers , the buds , and the birds ; which set the insects humming in the sunshine , and invited the ...
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... hope . likewise animated me at times , that possibly change of scene , change of air , change of life , together with the absence of every thing that could give to my mind the fatal direction of all my family , might relieve me for a ...
... hope . likewise animated me at times , that possibly change of scene , change of air , change of life , together with the absence of every thing that could give to my mind the fatal direction of all my family , might relieve me for a ...
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... hope ? " said she , with a melancholy smile . " If you will pardon me for daring to attempt to establish an interest in the hearts of a worthy family , who , if they cherish any regard for me , must one day mourn over my fate . But let ...
... hope ? " said she , with a melancholy smile . " If you will pardon me for daring to attempt to establish an interest in the hearts of a worthy family , who , if they cherish any regard for me , must one day mourn over my fate . But let ...
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... hope will be extinguished this night . But the river , the river , that is your true prophet . See how its waves roll quietly away ! not one drop will ever return ; and so with me . They find their way into the ocean of waters , and are ...
... hope will be extinguished this night . But the river , the river , that is your true prophet . See how its waves roll quietly away ! not one drop will ever return ; and so with me . They find their way into the ocean of waters , and are ...
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... hope that , under the guid- ance of an angel , and shielded by her wings , I may yet live to taste that happiness which has been an alien to my heart ever since the dread- ful conviction was implanted in it , that I should go the way of ...
... hope that , under the guid- ance of an angel , and shielded by her wings , I may yet live to taste that happiness which has been an alien to my heart ever since the dread- ful conviction was implanted in it , that I should go the way of ...
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Página 172 - I held on to him all the while, or he'd have gone off like one of these plaguy precussion-locks that have just come into fashion. "Captain, ' says I, "here's your health, and may you live to be a general.
Página 173 - I'm my own master again, with nobody to stand in my way at all. I must look out for some place where a man can live independent, where there's no law but gentlemen's law, and no niggers but black ones. I sha'n't see you again, colonel, it's most likely, so good-by all. I expect you'll be after me soon, for I look upon it to be impossible for a man in his senses to live here much longer, to be hoppled like a horse, and not go where he pleases.
Página 47 - We'll spring together, and we'll bear one fruit ; One joy shall make us smile, and one grief mourn, One age go with us, and one hour of death Shall close our eyes, and one grave make us happy.
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