Lawrie Todd: Or, The Settlers in the Woods, Volumen2

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H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830

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Página 115 - A man was famous, and was had in estimation, According as he lifted up his axe thick trees upon.
Página 3 - Stop, stop, John Gilpin !— Here 's the house ! " They all at once did cry ; "The dinner waits, and we are tired." Said Gilpin, '
Página 286 - For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to Love, And when we meet a mutual heart Come in between, and bid us part ? Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish and wish the soul away; Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life is gone...
Página 204 - Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Nor circled with the vengeful band (As by the impious thou art seen) With thundering voice, and threatening mien, With screaming Horror's funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty.
Página 108 - ... other regions : for during the harvest, winter, and spring months, they arise almost every unclouded night, and often shine with the most magnificent brilliancy. The light of the moon at her quadratures, sometimes, on such occasions, scarcely equals them, in illuminating the friths and the islands. Between the setting of the sun and the close of the twilight, they commonly make their first appearance in the north, issuing, for the most part, from behind the clouds, like a fountain of pale light,...
Página 213 - Hers is the real and uncentred poetry of being, which pervades and surrounds her as with an air, which peoples her visions and animates her love, which shrinks from earth into itself, and finds marvel and meditation in all that it beholds within, and which spreads even over the heaven in...
Página 320 - Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proof of holy writ.
Página 206 - ... Benjamin away. All these things are against me!" Reuben said: "Here are my own two boys. You may kill them, if you wish, in case I do not bring Benjamin back to you." But Jacob said: "My youngest son shall not go with you. His brother is dead, and he alone is left to me. If harm should come to him, it would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Página 238 - You will be much mistaken if you expect to find America like England, and still more if you think it may be made so.

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