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... readers of fiction , when mailed knights did prodigies of valour on scowling infidels ; when generous Robin Hoods and profligate but stalwart cattle - lifters bore swooning maidens into mountain fastnesses , and while cowled . monks and ...
... readers of fiction , when mailed knights did prodigies of valour on scowling infidels ; when generous Robin Hoods and profligate but stalwart cattle - lifters bore swooning maidens into mountain fastnesses , and while cowled . monks and ...
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... readers ; with the addition of certain dramatic surroundings , inseparable from the spirit of adventure which inspired our pioneer colonists , and the atmosphere of crime and violence which threw a lurid glare over their involuntary ...
... readers ; with the addition of certain dramatic surroundings , inseparable from the spirit of adventure which inspired our pioneer colonists , and the atmosphere of crime and violence which threw a lurid glare over their involuntary ...
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... readers than our busy community has yet been able to furnish ; while we have hitherto been too intent on more material interests to produce a class of men like the poet Rogers , who , combining affluence with cultivation , was willing ...
... readers than our busy community has yet been able to furnish ; while we have hitherto been too intent on more material interests to produce a class of men like the poet Rogers , who , combining affluence with cultivation , was willing ...
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... reader takes in the horrible surroundings , and the mind is benumbed with the pain of realizing that it is no exaggeration of the truth . The dehumanizing effect upon the officials , of the exercise of arbitrary , irresponsible ...
... reader takes in the horrible surroundings , and the mind is benumbed with the pain of realizing that it is no exaggeration of the truth . The dehumanizing effect upon the officials , of the exercise of arbitrary , irresponsible ...
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... reader . It revels in an unwholesome field , but in its amplitude of physiological details , its notebook - like record of sequence , and its absence of sentiment , it forcibly recalls some of the more ghastly stories of Edgar Allan Poe ...
... reader . It revels in an unwholesome field , but in its amplitude of physiological details , its notebook - like record of sequence , and its absence of sentiment , it forcibly recalls some of the more ghastly stories of Edgar Allan Poe ...
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Seite 76 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Seite 152 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Seite 38 - I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with and inseparable from British soil; which proclaims even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation.
Seite 74 - And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
Seite 340 - Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on ! The night is dark and I am far from home; Lead thou me on ! Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me.
Seite 442 - My canvass of you was not on the 'change, nor in the county meetings, nor in the clubs of this city. It was in the House of Commons, it was at the Custom-house, it was at the Council, it was at the Treasury, it was at the Admiralty. I canvassed you through your affairs, and not your persons.
Seite 81 - LORD heard him. 10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel : but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them ; and they were smitten before Israel.
Seite 81 - And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days : and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Seite 106 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Seite 440 - Commanding-in-Chief downwards ; she could dismiss all the sailors too ; she could sell off all our ships of war and all our naval stores ; she could make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall, and begin a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, a peer ; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a 1 university ' ; she could dismiss most of the civil servants ; she could pardon all offenders.