The Pirate, Volumen1Archibald Constable and Company; and Hurst, Robinson, and Company, London, 1822 - 346 páginas |
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... attention , to keep in order a few roods of land , which had been enclosed as a garden , and which , sheltered by the walls of the house itself , from the relentless sea - blast , produced such vegetables as the climate could bring ...
... attention , to keep in order a few roods of land , which had been enclosed as a garden , and which , sheltered by the walls of the house itself , from the relentless sea - blast , produced such vegetables as the climate could bring ...
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... attention necessary for his profiting . But in the perusal of history , to which their attention was frequently turned , as well as in the study of classic authors , there often occurred facts or sentiments which produced an in- stant ...
... attention necessary for his profiting . But in the perusal of history , to which their attention was frequently turned , as well as in the study of classic authors , there often occurred facts or sentiments which produced an in- stant ...
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... attention , were indelibly rivetted in a naturally powerful memory . She had also a high feeling for the solitary and melancholy grandeur of the scenes in which she was placed . The ocean , in all its varied forms of sublimity and ...
... attention , were indelibly rivetted in a naturally powerful memory . She had also a high feeling for the solitary and melancholy grandeur of the scenes in which she was placed . The ocean , in all its varied forms of sublimity and ...
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... attention , it seemed only to be because circumstances called her pe- culiar talents and disposition into more particular and immediate exercise . They were both accomplished in the simple music of the north , and Mordaunt , who was ...
... attention , it seemed only to be because circumstances called her pe- culiar talents and disposition into more particular and immediate exercise . They were both accomplished in the simple music of the north , and Mordaunt , who was ...
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... attention of their readers to that course of cul- tivation from which the production of good crops might be safely predicted , and who , careless of the rise and down- fall of empires , contented themselves with pointing out the fit ...
... attention of their readers to that course of cul- tivation from which the production of good crops might be safely predicted , and who , careless of the rise and down- fall of empires , contented themselves with pointing out the fit ...
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Página 29 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face ; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
Página 207 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me : To him my tale I teach.
Página 143 - Portugal I sung, Was but the prelude to that glorious day, When thou on silver Thames did'st cut thy way, With...
Página 26 - If strangers sometimes conceived that her fine features were clouded by melancholy for which her age and situation could scarce have given occasion, they were soon satisfied, upon further acquaintance, that the placid mild quietude of her disposition, and the mental energy of a character which was but little interested in ordinary and trivial occurrences, was the real...