Tints from an amateur's palette; or, A few stray hues of thought |
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... scenes , or -die ; and perhaps some of us may have had occasion- ally some faint conceptions of their over - wrought feelings , when the forms and faces we no more shall see , seem to live again in those cadences which 22 A WORD OR TWO.
... scenes , or -die ; and perhaps some of us may have had occasion- ally some faint conceptions of their over - wrought feelings , when the forms and faces we no more shall see , seem to live again in those cadences which 22 A WORD OR TWO.
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... scene around us . Steeped in sunshine , and half hidden by a screen of nets and masts , stands a little fishing - village at a short dis- tance on the opposite bank of the river - from whence the clink of chain cables , and the musical ...
... scene around us . Steeped in sunshine , and half hidden by a screen of nets and masts , stands a little fishing - village at a short dis- tance on the opposite bank of the river - from whence the clink of chain cables , and the musical ...
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... scenes of the most touching beauty or awful sublimity , his unin- formed and obtuse mind seldom appreciates their influence ; and though he visits lands basking in the rays of Nature's divinest light , and walks the streets of cities ...
... scenes of the most touching beauty or awful sublimity , his unin- formed and obtuse mind seldom appreciates their influence ; and though he visits lands basking in the rays of Nature's divinest light , and walks the streets of cities ...
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... scene , with the noisy , driving , scrambling world , and investing some imaginary isle that rears its fairy height above the blue waters , with a Medora's tower , or Haidee's grot . A few drops of the like poetic infusion seem to have ...
... scene , with the noisy , driving , scrambling world , and investing some imaginary isle that rears its fairy height above the blue waters , with a Medora's tower , or Haidee's grot . A few drops of the like poetic infusion seem to have ...
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... scenes of his childhood's buoyancy . At length , the church - spire and the vanes of the ships in harbour are discerned like specks of burning gold in the evening sky , and in due time our boat lies alongside the quay , where our ...
... scenes of his childhood's buoyancy . At length , the church - spire and the vanes of the ships in harbour are discerned like specks of burning gold in the evening sky , and in due time our boat lies alongside the quay , where our ...
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appreciation Author bear beauty better bound in cloth breath bright British calculated Change character coach coachman cold Commercial confidence consola conversation Counting-House dear decision deep delight earth Edition effect EFFINGHAM English exercise existence expression feel forming French French Language friends Genius give grief Guide hand happiness head heart heaven honour hope horses human immortal influence kind L'Echo de Paris labour language leave look mainsail mental mind Modern Cambist nation nature Nature's neatly bound never nexion object perhaps pleasure poetry price reduced principle racter Railways regard rich Royal Assent Royal Exchange sailing-master SAMUEL BAILEY scenes scrowge share SIR THOMAS GRESHAM sleep smile soul South-East Corner spirit spring stoicism suffer sweet Tables TATE Tate's thing thou thought tion topsail touch truth uncon voice warl weary WILLIAM TATE words
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