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... thing could be seen , except the light gleaming from his eyeballs . He stood in an attitude which the dreamer's fears quickly determined to be the menacing posture of the demon from which he had shrunk ; the forefinger of his right hand ...
... thing could be seen , except the light gleaming from his eyeballs . He stood in an attitude which the dreamer's fears quickly determined to be the menacing posture of the demon from which he had shrunk ; the forefinger of his right hand ...
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... things . " Notwithstanding this remark , the Missionary would have been curious to hear his supposed destiny , even from the lips of a man he affected to despise the specimen he had seen of the wizard's influence and knowledge ...
... things . " Notwithstanding this remark , the Missionary would have been curious to hear his supposed destiny , even from the lips of a man he affected to despise the specimen he had seen of the wizard's influence and knowledge ...
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... things as Hamel has shewn to me , you will have the same chance , at least , of suc- ceeding with them . " The Obeah man smiled ; but the Missionary's features expressed only rage and mortification at this suggestion , heightened by the ...
... things as Hamel has shewn to me , you will have the same chance , at least , of suc- ceeding with them . " The Obeah man smiled ; but the Missionary's features expressed only rage and mortification at this suggestion , heightened by the ...
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... fancifully given to personifications of Satan , could have elevated any animated thing to such a pinnacle as that on which master Roland stood . surveying the scene before him , -not of course like 46 HAMEL . CHAPTER VI. ...
... fancifully given to personifications of Satan , could have elevated any animated thing to such a pinnacle as that on which master Roland stood . surveying the scene before him , -not of course like 46 HAMEL . CHAPTER VI. ...
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... Things are not expected to be exactly similar in the old and new world . Mr Guthrie knew nothing but by hear - say of the first , having never been off the island of Jamaica but once in his life , and that only a few years back , when ...
... Things are not expected to be exactly similar in the old and new world . Mr Guthrie knew nothing but by hear - say of the first , having never been off the island of Jamaica but once in his life , and that only a few years back , when ...
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Página 299 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 270 - Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod, Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew, If a tight damsel chaunc'd to trippen by ; Which when observ'd, he shrunk into his mew, And straight would recollect his piety anew.
Página 111 - I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know...
Página 312 - No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape ; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes : What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ! But who comes here ? Enter Escalus, Provost, Bawd, and Officers.
Página 48 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 81 - The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Página 212 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Página 242 - THERE was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love. Just so Romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles ? O' th' first of these w' have no great matter To treat of, but a world o' th' latter, In which to do the injured right We mean, in what concerns just fight.
Página 173 - Lay her i' the earth : And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring ! I tell thee churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling.
Página 212 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...