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...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...Doctor Parker Peps would walk upstairs again. ‘Good! W e must not disguise from you, Sir,’ said Doctor Parker Peps, ‘that there is a want of power in ... ...ow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsid- erately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.’ ‘I hope I k... ...ess. It was a rude shock to his sense of property in his child, that these people— the mere dust of the earth, as he thought them -should be necessary... ...t-time, when it came with the water-carts and the old clothes men, and the people with geraniums, and the umbrella-mender, and the man who trilled the... ... ever. It had its part, perhaps, in saving her curls; for Mrs Brown, after hovering about her with the scis- sors for some moments, like a new kind of... ...plans and speculations, rested on that baby head; and could have seen them hovering, in all their heterogeneous confusion and disorder, round the puck... ...s soon as they were well out of the street, to whistle a tune. ‘Uncle much hove down, Wal’r?’ inquired the Captain, as 129 Charles Dickens they were ...

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...e Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quotations and allusions, his favourite of the classics was Horace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. ...

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...6 LESLIE STEPHEN?1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

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...........................................................1 3 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ................................................ ..., as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. T o judge by quotations and allusio... ... generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon on the rocky island. In his young man... ...ian policy was from step to step a mis- reading of the will of the English people. He went forth on this campaign, with the finger of Egypt not ineffe... ... and we shall be made sensible that we have an enemy in our midst, until a people, slow to think, have taken counsel of their native generosity to put... ...of those cries, we shall see how they illumine the councils of a governing people. They are wiser than the barking dogs. Cromwell and Bis- marck are g... ...tak- ing with him the carrettieri of the whole army. At last Casalmaggiore hove in sight, and, when good for- tune and the carmen permitted, I reached...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfi...

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...ING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WATCHMATE, 94 -- CHAPTER XXIV ? SAN DIEGO AGAI...

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...ING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAPTER XX — LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORN... ...VIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPTER XXIX — LOADING FOR HOME—A SURPRISE—LAST OF ... ...3 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER XXXVI — SOUNDINGS—SIGHTS FROM HOME—BOSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 HARBOR—LEAVING THE SHIP -... ...f, I was, no doubt, known for a landsman by every one on board as soon as I hove in sight. A sailor has a peculiar cut to his clothes, and a way of ... ...and a breeze having sprung up from the southward, we took a pilot on board, hove up our anchor, and began beating down the bay. I took leave of those... ...e terra firma of the deck. In a few minutes seven bells were struck, the log hove, the watch called, and we went to breakfast. Here I cannot but rem... ...e no one cares for; so that when ‘‘the mate’’ thinks fit to entertain ‘‘the people’’ with a coarse joke or a little practical wit, every one feels b... ...t among landsmen about a sailor’s life. Nothing is more common than to hear people say—‘‘Are not sailors very idle at sea?—what can they find to do?’... ...o the forecastle, filled our jacket pockets with tobacco to barter with the people ashore, and - 21 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana w...

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...var Horsetail. Onund was the brother of Gudbjorg, the mother of Gudbrand Knob, the father of Asta, the mother of King Olaf the Saint. His mother came from the Upplands, while his father?s relations were mostly in Rogaland and Hordland. He was a great viking and used to harry away in the West over the sea. He was accompanied on these expeditions by one Balki, the son of Bla...

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...Knob, the father of Asta, the mother of King Olaf the Saint. His mother came from the Upplands, while his father’s relations were mostly in Rogaland a... ...ea. He was accompanied on these expeditions by one Balki, the son of Blaeing from Sotanes, and by Orm the Wealthy. Another comrade of theirs was named... ...ltitude led by Kjotvi the Wealthy, Thorir Long chin, and Soti and King Sulki from South Rogaland. Geirmund Swarthyskin was then away in the West, beyo... ...Norway. There are many accounts of it, for one always hears much about those people of whom the saga is told. Troops had come in from all the country... ...him Audun Nannygoat. The Saga of Grettir the Strong 12 When the farmers and people about heard of the disturbances they all came out to help the jar]... ...later Asgrim went to Hallsteinn’s house and gave him a severe wound. All the people who were present started up and attacked Asgrim. He defended himse... .... He said: “Home I rode the mare to Grim’s, a better man than the hovel dweller! Nothing will I pay for hire! Now we may be frien... ...rift. Thorgeir took the ox by the stern and Thormod by the head, and so they hove him into the boat. Then they started heading for the bay, Thormod ta...

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...y a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log-hut, I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highe...

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... on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bang... ...ce, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log hut, I ... ...mountain may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik Rive... ...rprising neighbors that he did n’t know enough to put a question to them. No people can long continue provincial in character who have the propensity ... ... among the parents, than which nothing can be more acceptable to a backwoods people. It was really an important item in our outfit, and, at times, the ... ...f Maine spend the winter in, in the wilderness. There were the camps and the hovels for the cattle, hardly distinguishable, except that the latter had... ...t it would n’t do to have anything of the bird kind on the premises.” A hawk hovering over was not allowed to alight, but barked off by the dogs circl... ... come down to drink, or else a wolf. The little rill tinkled the louder, and peopled all the wilderness for me; and the glassy smooth ness of the sle... ...he captain, “I don’t see it”; but he held on, nevertheless, and by and by it hove in sight. We reached the head of the lake about noon. The weather ha...

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... more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, between two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dea...

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...art only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, between two ex... ... process of the mind, but in a supreme self-dictation, which keeps varying from hour to hour in its dictates with the varia- tion of events and circum... ...ery generation has to educate another which it has brought upon the stage. People who readily accept the responsibility of parentship, having very dif... ...e-eyed brat three bad things: the terror of public opinion, and, flow- ing from that as a fountain, the desire of wealth and ap- plause. Besides these... ... ing, and how to walk through a quadrille. But, you may tell me, the young people are taught to be Christians. It may be want of penetration, but I ha... ...ins the cause. And thus you find Christ giving various counsels to varying people, and often jealously careful to avoid definite precept. Is he asked,... ...; and perhaps most noticeably, when he sketches the burned letters as they hover along the gusty flue, ‘Thin, sable veils, wherein a restless spark Ye... ...alf a mile beyond the borders of the wood the lights of the ‘Green Dragon’ hove in sight, and running close be- side them, very faint in the dying dus... ...r with an eager and furtive eye. It seemed as if the idea that had so long hovered before him had now taken a more solid shape, and, while it still at...

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...n, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highly meritorious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and repute, though, it must be acknowledged, not quite so highly esteemed in the City as she might be. This is the more rema...

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...he long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their emp loyer. They were bound to a highly meri torious lady (na... ...n hands. The misguided young men who thus shirked their duty to the mistress from whom they had received many favours, were actuated by the low idea o... ...d he walk? He wouldn’t walk. He swore it by this milestone! It was the fifth from London, so far had they pen etrated into the North. Submitting to t... ... ture and art combined, it yet glided over dangerous heights in the sight of people looking up from fields and roads, as smoothly and unreally as a li... ...it fired itself in like a volley of cannon balls, swooped away four country people with nosegays, and three men of business with portmanteaus, and fi... ... the Circus was last week. The temperature changed, the dialect changed, the people changed, faces got sharper, manner got shorter, eyes got shrewder ... ...ceived from the first sight of the corpse. Before long the face seemed to be hovering out in the middle of the darkness, confronting him through the w... ...nels Pay here for the Boxes, Pay here for the Pit, Pay here for the Gallery, hove down in a corner and locked up; nobody near the tent but the man on ...

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...nd ditch and wall? O that was a Legion’s camping-place, When Caesar sailed from Gaul! 5 Rudyard Kipling And see you marks that show and fade, Like sh... ...nging his broken June tune, ‘cuckoo-cuck’, while a busy kingfisher crossed from the mill-stream, to the brook which ran on the other side of the meado... ...nd in ‘ies’. They were both so pleased that they acted it three times over from be- ginning to end before they sat down in the unthistly centre of the... ...hing. ‘If this had happened a few hundred years ago you’d have had all the People of the Hills out like bees in June!’ ‘We didn’t know it was wrong,’ ... ...at’s just why you did it. Unluck- ily the Hills are empty now, and all the People of the Hills are gone. I’m the only one left. I’m Puck, the oldest O... ...eard that sung, but there’s no good beating about the bush: it’s true. The People of the Hills have all left. I saw them come into Old England and I s... ...at the block of stone he was fetching me from France for our new font he’d hove over- board to lighten his ship, chased by Andrew Barton up to Rye Por... ...t of cruel Old England. Silver you could hear chinkin’, an’ liddle bundles hove down dunt on the bottom- boards, an’ passels o’ liddle swords an’ shie...

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...ed about the lattice side-work and the iron roof of the railway-line, hung from invisible staging under the bellies of the girders, clus- tered round ... ...contractors by the half-hundred—fitters and riv- eters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subo... ...g as remorse- lessly as they worked themselves. Findlayson thought it over from the beginning: the months of office-work destroyed at a blow when the ... ...he big gong had brought the dinghy back at racing speed, and Peroo and his people were stripped to the waist, working for the honour and credit which ... ...pling grow as fat as myself. And I, who am Ganesh of Good Luck, I bless my peoples.” “They have changed the face of the land-which is my land. They ha... ...Bhairon went on thickly. “By day and night they pray to me, all the Common People in the fields and the roads. Who is like Bhairon today? What talk is... ...friends took up the tale one after another. “Which has advanced—“That wave hove green water over the funnel. “As far as Cape Hatteras—” He drenched th... ...an’ they took haud o’ that volunteer before he knew what was in store, and hove him over, in the bight of my life- line. So I e’en hauled him upon the... ...so close I feared she’d roll in an’ do the Grotkau’s plates a mischief. He hove anither life-line to me, an’ went astern, an’ we had all the weary win...

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...r slough the dross of Earth — E’en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth. So... ...waddy chills, An’ a Zulu impi dished us up in style: But all we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller; We ‘eld our ... ... SOLDIER, SOLDIER SOLDIER, SOLDIER SOLDIER, SOLDIER “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Why don’t you march with my true love?” “We’re fresh from of... ... his crew on the live bamboo that grows through the gangrened flesh; I had hove him down by the mangroves brown, where the mud-reef sucks and draws, M... ...us Gods are made, And whoso makes them otherwise shall die.” And all the people praised him. . . . Then he died. Read here the story of Evarra — ma... ... 1889 to 1896 129 And whoso makes them otherwise shall die.” And all the people praised him… . Then he died. Read here the story of Evarra — man — ... ...ding their neighbours’ tails: — “Our fathers lived in the forest, Foolish people were they, They went down to the cornland To teach the farmers to p...

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... long ago as October 7. Against Cummings both private and official advices from Paris state that there is no charge what- ever. He has been subjected ... ... has made among the French soldiers, that even while suffer- ing in health from his unjust confinement, he excuses the ingratitude of the country he h... ...mosphere of in- tense suspicion and distrust that has naturally re- sulted from the painful experience which France has had with foreign emissaries. B... ...d- ded a number of times. The moustache rang. I understood that these kind people were planning to make me out the innocent victim of a wily villain, ... ... as my friend has so often said to me, the French are after all the finest people in the world.” This double-blow stopped Noyon dead, but only for a s... ... believe that my friend is not as sincere a lover of France and the French people as any man living!—T ell him to write it,” I commanded Noyon stonily... ...ep their mouths shut or they’d get it worse than they had it. Finally they hove in sight of La Ferté and the handcuffs were removed in order to enable...

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..., a mind as thine, Thou noble Father of her Kings to be, Laborious for her people and her poor— Voice in the rich dawn of an ampler day— Far-sighted s... ...pass Thee, The love of all Thy daughters cherish Thee, The love of all Thy people comfort Thee, Till God’s love set Thee at his side again! The Coming... ... isle, and ever waging war Each upon other, wasted all the land; And still from time to time the heathen host Swarmed overseas, and harried what was l... ...r said That there between the man and beast they die. Shall I not lift her from this land of beasts Up to my throne, and side by side with me? What ha... ...h day the morning star. So when the King had set his banner broad, At once from either side, with trumpet-blast, And shouts, and clarions shrilling un... ...d no king, Or else baseborn.” Yet Merlin through his craft, And while the people clamoured for a king, Had Arthur crowned; but after, the great lords... ...s was mute, For he is alway sullen: what care I?’ And Gareth went, and hovering round her chair Asked, ‘Mother, though ye count me still the child... ... there Her constant motion round him, and the breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him, Filled all the genial courses of his blood With deeper a... ...To learn what Arthur meant by courtesy, Manhood, and knighthood; wherefore hovered round Lancelot, but when he marked his high sweet smile In passing,...

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...ley, Ulster County, New York. Colonel Ardinburgh belonged to that class of people called Low Dutch. Of her first master, she can give no account, as s... ..., docil- ity, and respectful behavior, won his particular regard, received from him particular favors-among which was a lot of land, lying back on the... ...habit among slaveholders, of expecting a willing and intelligent obedience from the slave, because he is a man—at the same time every thing belonging ... ...e was the mother of some ten or twelve children; though So- journer is far from knowing the exact number of her brothers and sisters; she being the yo... ...some time very comfortably. The strangers who rented the house were humane people, and very kind to them; they were not rich, and owned no slaves. How... ...Scriver, besides being a fisherman, kept a tavern for the accommodation of people of his own class-for his was a rude, uneducated family, exceedingly ... ...stioned relative to the bad scar on his forehead, he said, ‘Fowler’s horse hove him. ’ And of the one on his cheek, ‘That was done by running against ... ...d to un- derstand, much less entertain, a high or bright idea,— in a dirty hovel, destitute of every comfort, and where the fumes of whiskey were abun...

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... Roy, of having some scien- tific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my... ...o him; and to add that, during the five years we were together, I received from him the most cordial friendship and steady as- sistance. Both to Capta... ...ollected, and I trust that many others will here- after follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, in his g... ...ar water. It happened to be a grand feast-day, and the village was full of people. On our return we overtook a party of about twenty young black girls... ...st falls in such quantities as to dirty every- thing on board, and to hurt people’s eyes; vessels even have run on shore owing to the obscurity of the... ...sphores- cent in the dark. ST. PAUL’S ROCKS. — In crossing the Atlantic we hove-to during the morning of February 16th, close to the island of St. Pau... ...dation of forks, knives, and spoons is common; and I am sure no cottage or hovel in England could be found in a state so utterly destitute of every co... ...his day I found a specimen of a curious fungus, called Hymenophallus. Most people know the English Phallus, which in autumn taints the air with its od... ...be compared to many birds. I have frequently observed it, hunting a field, hover- ing over one spot like a hawk, and then proceeding on to another. Wh...

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... OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES EDGAR ALLAN POE AN APPRECIATION Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followe... ... Hope that melancholy burden bore Of “never—never more!” THIS STANZA from “The Raven” was recommended by James Russell Lowell as an inscription ... ... which inthralls every reader, Mr. Lowell suggested this additional verse, from the “Haunted Palace”: And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fai... ... “He was at all times a dreamer-dwelling in ideal realms-in heaven or hell-peopled with the creatures and the accidents of his brain. He walked-the st... ...n season’ from you made ‘The Raven,’ and made ‘Ulalume’ (which by-the-way, people have done me the honor of attributing to you), there- fore, I would ... ... on the — — day of — — (I am not positive about the date), a vast crowd of people, for purposes not specifically mentioned, were assembled in the grea... ...to my ascent. Never- theless, I could easily perceive that the balloon now hovered above the range of great lakes in the continent of North America, a... ...I must acknowledge. Still there is an infinity of mud huts, and abominable hovels. W e cannot help perceiving abun- dance of filth in every kennel, an... ...ght directly above us, and upon the very verge of the precipitous descent, hovered a gigantic ship of, perhaps, four thousand tons. Although upreared ...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position,... ..., would be thrown upon the house wall that was over the gateway, and would hover there like shadows from a great magic lantern. As the room-ridden inv... ...wel-stands; there was no shadow of Mr Merdle’s complaint on young Sparkler hovering about the rooms, monomaniacally seeking any sufficiently ineligibl... ...ering soared around him, that he was yet to be told, My Lords, that it be- hoved him as the Minister of this free country, to set bounds to the philan...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position,... ..., would be thrown upon the house wall that was over the gateway, and would hover there like shadows from a great magic lantern. As the room-ridden inv... ...wel-stands; there was no shadow of Mr Merdle’s complaint on young Sparkler hovering about the rooms, monomaniacally seeking any sufficiently ineligibl... ...ering soared around him, that he was yet to be told, My Lords, that it be- hoved him as the Minister of this free country, to set bounds to the philan...

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...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...te so good author ity, “rises in the south part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between ... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... ... hold but speak not, silently glided past the firm lands of Concord, both peopled cape and lonely summer meadow, with steady sweeps. And yet we did u... ...of his, sounding his rattle along the fluvial street. Erelong another scow hove in sight, creeping down the river; and hailing it, we attached ourselv... ...th your company. My love must be as free As is the eagle’s wing, Hovering o’er land and sea And everything. 218 AWeekontheConcordandMer...

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...ad leaves, in which she was accustomed to perform these avocations -hidden from human sight at other times in a table drawer—and went methodically to ... ... a growing scent, Miss T ox said. There was a tiny blink of sun peeping in from the great street round the cor- ner, and the smoky sparrows hopped ove... ...or had re- turned home to his lodgings opposite, and had just bowed to her from his window. What other reason could Miss T ox have for connecting Mr D... ...laim to be considered a person of superior intellect—though I believe some people have been extraordinary enough to con- sider me so; one so little hu... ...and I really don’ t know, as Paul is going to be very grand, and these are people of condition, that she would have been quite presentable, and might ... ...oo seri- ous! Take me downstairs, like an angel, and let us see what these people intend to give us for dinner. Bless you, dear Dombey!’ Cleopatra ski... ...n doors, dawn, at first, can only peep at night, and see that it is there. Hovering feebly round the church, and looking in, dawn moans and weeps for ... ... Where’s that there man’s spirit, all afire, that wouldn’t see the old man hove down for a minute, and cared nothing for itself? Gone down with W al’r... ...s, if they deserved the name, spread something dry upon her shoulders, and hovered humbly about her, muttering to herself, as she recognised her old f...

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... can studiously travel through sheets of leaves now ca- pable of a stretch from the Lizard to the last few poor pul- monary snips and shreds of league... ...ulness, and that prolongation of the vasty and the noisy, out of which, as from an undrained fen, steams the malady of sameness, our modern malady. We... ...nd aft. We were the same, and animals into the bargain. That is all we got from Science. Art is the specific. We have little to learn of apes, and the... ...th tell us, royal blood in common trades. For all our pride we are a queer people; and you may be ordering butcher’s meat of a T udor, sitting on the ... ...had been strictly sagacious. “Patternes marry money; they are not romantic people,” she said. Miss Durham had money, and she had health and beauty: th... ...ughby and Miss Dale. It was a pleasant and romantic story, and it put most people in good humour with the county’s favourite, as his choice of a porti... ...ra. “Some one, I suppose, was walking over my grave.” The gulf of a caress hove in view like an enormous billow hollowing under the curled ridge. She ... ...ndeed. But I am going immedi- ately,” said Laetitia, seeing Sir Willoughby hovering to snap up his bride. “Yes; and a garden-hat and I am on the march... ...ted friend.” “He is an untiring pedestrian.” “Oh!” Colonel De Craye, after hovering near the ladies in the hope of seeing them divide, now adopted the...