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Página 102 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...
Página 9 - Neversink, described by him as a "very good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see.
Página 80 - To the rare Few who early in life have rid themselves of the Friendship of the Many, these pathetic papers are inscribed.
Página 103 - The tulip-tree, high up, Opened, in airs of June, her multitude Of golden chalices to humming-birds And silken-winged insects of the sky.
Página 40 - ... never dream a dream but of serving her as she bids you, though the service carry you through a thousand hells. No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand...
Página 40 - And for your country, boy," and the words rattled in his throat, " and for that flag," and he pointed to the ship, "never dream a dream but of serving her as she bids you, though the service carry you through a thousand hells. No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even,...
Página 106 - October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know; But lay an Opal on her breast And hope will lull those woes to rest. November. Who first comes to this world below With drear November's fog and snow Should prize the Topaz amber hue — Emblem of friends and lovers true.
Página 105 - Who on this world of ours their eyes In March first open, shall be wise, In days of peril firm and brave, And wear a Bloodstone to their grave. (34) The Wedding. 35 APRIL. She who from April dates her years Diamonds should wear, lest bitter tears For vain repentance flow ; this stone, Emblem of innocence is known.
Página 9 - ... and a ray as great as four men could haul into the ship. So we trimmed our boat and rode still all day. At night the wind blew hard at the north-west, and our anchor came home, and we drove on shore, but took no hurt, thanked be God, for the ground is soft sand and ooze. This day the people of the country came aboard of us, seeming very glad of our coming...
Página 72 - My wish is that my Drawings, my Prints, my Curiosities, my Books — in a word these things of art which have been the joy of my life — shall not be consigned to the cold tomb of a museum, and subjected to the stupid glance of the careless passer-by; but I require that they shall all be dispersed under the hammer, of the Auctioneer, so that the pleasure which the acquiring of each one of them has given me shall be given again, in each case, to some inheritor of my own tastes.

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