Prose and Verse, Volúmenes1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
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... facts of guilty acts Are seen in dreams from God ! He told how murderers walked the earth Beneath the curse of Cain- With crimson clouds before their eyes , And flames about their brain ; For blood had left upon their souls Its ...
... facts of guilty acts Are seen in dreams from God ! He told how murderers walked the earth Beneath the curse of Cain- With crimson clouds before their eyes , And flames about their brain ; For blood had left upon their souls Its ...
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... fact , the mistress had arrived at the determi- nation of giving both her white hussies their month's warning , when unexpectedly the thief was taken , as the lawyers say , “ in the manner , " and with the goods upon the person . In a ...
... fact , the mistress had arrived at the determi- nation of giving both her white hussies their month's warning , when unexpectedly the thief was taken , as the lawyers say , “ in the manner , " and with the goods upon the person . In a ...
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... fact the owner has been taken sundry times , ere now , for a Methodist Minister , and a pious turn has been attributed to his hair - lucus a non lucendo - from its having no turn in it at all . * In like manner my literary ...
... fact the owner has been taken sundry times , ere now , for a Methodist Minister , and a pious turn has been attributed to his hair - lucus a non lucendo - from its having no turn in it at all . * In like manner my literary ...
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... fact , I recollect receiving but one soli- tary serious admonition , and that was from a she cousin of ten years old , that the Spectator I was reading on a Sunday morn- ing , " was not the Bible . " For there was still much of this ...
... fact , I recollect receiving but one soli- tary serious admonition , and that was from a she cousin of ten years old , that the Spectator I was reading on a Sunday morn- ing , " was not the Bible . " For there was still much of this ...
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... facts were briefly these . A spicy - tempered captain of Artillery , in a dispute with a su- perior officer , had rashly cashiered himself by either throwing up or tearing up his commission . In this dilemma he arrived at Dundee , to ...
... facts were briefly these . A spicy - tempered captain of Artillery , in a dispute with a su- perior officer , had rashly cashiered himself by either throwing up or tearing up his commission . In this dilemma he arrived at Dundee , to ...
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Página 34 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky. It was a childish ignorance, — But now 'tis little joy: To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy ! THOMAS HOOD.
Página 34 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day ; But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! T remember.
Página 26 - Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep : Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep.
Página 26 - All night I lay in agony, From weary chime to chime; With one besetting horrid hint That racked me all the time — A mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime — "One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave! Stronger and stronger every pulse Did that temptation crave — Still urging me to go and see The dead man in his grave!
Página 23 - And, long since then, of bloody men Whose deeds tradition saves; Of lonely folk cut off unseen, And hid in sudden graves ; Of horrid stabs, in groves forlorn, And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod...
Página 210 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !
Página 209 - The wounds I might have healed ! The human sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
Página 134 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! PART III.
Página 180 - Ines" had always, for me, an inexpressible charm: O saw ye not fair Ines! She's gone into the West, To dazzle when the sun is down, And rob the world of rest...