Standard Novels, Volume 2J. Cunningham, 1840 |
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Alfred Stevens Alma answer arms Barnabas Beauchampe beautiful believe bosom brother Stevens Calvert Captain Hendee Charlemont Charles Warrington Colonel Sharpe companion countenance Covington dark Darrow dear door doubt ears Ellisland enemy Ethan Allen exclaimed eyes face fancy father fear feel felt Flemming followed girl glance Green Mountain Boys Hampshire Grants hand hear heard heart heaven hope John Cross Jones knew lady lake leave lips look M'Intosh Margaret Cooper matter ment mind Miss Hendee morning mother nature Neshobee never night once passed passion Paul Flemming perhaps Pete Jones pistols racter replied scarcely seemed Selden Sherwood silent Skenesboro smile soon soul speak spirit stood strange stranger suffered suppose sure sweet tell thing thou thought tion tone tree truth turned utterance voice Warrington wife William Hinkley window woman words young youth
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Page 41 - O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars...
Page 86 - And how felt he, the wretched Man reclining there — while memory ran o'er many a year of guilt and strife, flew o'er the dark flood of his life, nor found one sunny resting-place, nor brought him back one branch of grace !
Page 14 - It is better, therefore, that they should soon make up their minds to this ; well knowing, that, as their bodies must...
Page 46 - O Land ! For all the broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great departed, Into the Silent Land ! L'ENVOI.
Page 61 - After the sun's .remove. I see them walking in an air of glory, Whose light doth trample on my days — My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmerings and decays.
Page 56 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Page 1 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page 90 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!
Page 61 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest, may know At first sight, if the bird be flown ; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown. And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themeSi And into glory peep.
Page 27 - Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me...