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appear beauty behold cause character child cold comfort cried dare dead delight doubt dread dream duty early ease face fair fancy fate father fear feel felt foes fond force gave give grace grave grew grief grieved hand happy hear heard heart hope hour humble kind knew lady light live look look'd Lord lost lover maid manners mean meet mind move nature never night o'er once pain pass'd passion peace pity pleasure poet poor praise prepared pride reason rest round scene seem'd seen sense shame silent smile soon soul speak spirit strong sweet TALE thee things thou thought told true truth UNIVE wish young youth
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Page 203 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Page 133 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 31 - O'er its rough bridge, and there behold the bay ; The ocean smiling to the fervid sun, The waves that faintly fall and slowly run, » The ships at distance, and the boats at hand ; And now they walk upon the sea-side sand, Counting the number, and what kind they be, Ships softly sinking in the sleepy sea...
Page 245 - Ah me ! for aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, . The course of true love never did run smooth : J But, either it was different in blood ; — Lys.
Page 236 - Josiah,> said the dame, (These wicked thoughts would fill his soul with shame; He kneel and tremble at a thing of dust! He cannot, child>: — the child replied, (He must...
Page 188 - Here Dinah sigh'd as if afraid to speak — And then repeated — ' They were frail and weak; His soul she loved, and hoped he had the grace To fix his thoughts upon a better place.
Page 155 - Creatures no more enliven'd than a clod, But treading still as their dull fathers trod ; Who lived in times when not a man had seen Corn sown by drill, or thresh'd by a machine : He was of those whose skill assigns the prize For creatures fed in pens, and stalls, and sties ; And who, in places where improvers meet, To fill the land with fatness, had a seat ; Who in large mansions live like petty kings, And spea'k of farms but as amusing things ; Who plans encourage, and who journals keep, And talk...
Page 46 - Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd ; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw...
Page 141 - They parted, thus by hope and fortune led, And Judith's hours in pensive pleasure fled; But when return'd the Youth ? — the Youth no more Return'd exulting to his native shore; But forty years were past, and then there came A worn-out man with wither'd limbs and lame, His mind oppress'd with woes and bent with age his frame : Yes ! old and griev'd, and trembling with decay, Was Allen landing in his native bay.
Page 47 - That, viewing it, we seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.