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... horses bring , We have to travel far . " ' " Ho warder ! lower the drawbridge ; Unbar the fortress gates ; For we ride forth to Grahamstown , This moment , please the Fates . " Right gaily to their coursers ' backs , Sprang these two ...
... horses bring , We have to travel far . " ' " Ho warder ! lower the drawbridge ; Unbar the fortress gates ; For we ride forth to Grahamstown , This moment , please the Fates . " Right gaily to their coursers ' backs , Sprang these two ...
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... horse Booey - boo - boo , has lately changed hands , and become the property of our friend Lieutenant Orr ; the price paid for him , by that gentleman , we are informed , was something almost fabulous . We believe it is not contemplated ...
... horse Booey - boo - boo , has lately changed hands , and become the property of our friend Lieutenant Orr ; the price paid for him , by that gentleman , we are informed , was something almost fabulous . We believe it is not contemplated ...
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... horse broken - down machines styled coaches in the present day , but fine old roomy vehicles , drawn along at a slashing pace by four as good animals as you could well wish for , so very very different from the poor miserable crea ...
... horse broken - down machines styled coaches in the present day , but fine old roomy vehicles , drawn along at a slashing pace by four as good animals as you could well wish for , so very very different from the poor miserable crea ...
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... horses ' flanks . I immediately popped my head out of the window , and saw a man on horse- back , with a pistol in his hand , riding alongside the coach- man , and , apparently threatening to shoot him , unless he instantly pulled up ...
... horses ' flanks . I immediately popped my head out of the window , and saw a man on horse- back , with a pistol in his hand , riding alongside the coach- man , and , apparently threatening to shoot him , unless he instantly pulled up ...
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... horse , and deprived him , for the time , of the power of further annoyance , I left him to his fate . " The landlord had re - entered the room , unperceived by us , and , having heard this account of the stranger's adventure , observed ...
... horse , and deprived him , for the time , of the power of further annoyance , I left him to his fate . " The landlord had re - entered the room , unperceived by us , and , having heard this account of the stranger's adventure , observed ...
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Página 123 - THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Página 281 - November nth, 1762. We have now been enclosed in the ice seventeen days. The fire went out yesterday, and our master has been trying ever since to kindle it again without success. His wife died this morning. There is no relief.
Página 256 - And, but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now, And but for that chill, changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart...
Página 256 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed...
Página 128 - I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renewed the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine ; And, while the wings of fancy still are free, And I can view this mimic show of thee, Time has but half succeeded in his theft — Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left.
Página 123 - That lay in the house that Jack built. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT 31 This is the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, 5 That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Página 127 - Love, now a universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to man, from man to earth: — It is the hour of feeling.
Página 281 - About midnight the wind rose to a gale, accompanied by thick showers of snow, while a succession of thundering, grinding, and crashing noises gave fearful evidence that the ice was in motion. The vessel received violent shocks every moment, for the haziness of the atmosphere prevented those on board from discovering in what direction the open water lay, or if there was actually any at all on either side of them.
Página 281 - It was two miles beyond the entrance of this canal that a ship made its appearance about noon. The sun shone brightly at the time, and a gentle breeze blew from the north. At first some intervening icebergs prevented Captain Warrens from distinctly seeing anything but her...
Página 281 - Captain Warrens and his seamen hurried from the spot without uttering a word. On entering the principal cabin, the first object that attracted their attention was the dead body of a female, reclining on a bed in an attitude of deep interest and attention. Her countenance retained the freshness of life, and a contraction of the limbs alone showed that her form was inanimate.