The Dancing Feather: Or, The Amateur Freebooters. To which is Added The Scarlet FeatherJ. S. Pratt, 1849 - 441 pages |
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Page 425 - O'er bog, and brake, and precipice, till death ? And toil we still for sublunary pay ? Defy the dangers of the field and flood, Or, spider-like, spin out our precious All, Our more than vitals spin (if no regard To great futurity) in curious webs...
Page 441 - There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
Page 438 - glorious orb," which " was a worship ere the mystery of his making was revealed," had disappeared. Quickly as the fading pageantry of some dream of oriental splendour, — of some such dream as that of Kublah Khan, which resolved itself into music that did not remain " unwritten," — the red glory which had " come down on the land and sea
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| Title | The Dancing Feather: Or, The Amateur Freebooters. To which is Added The Scarlet Feather |
| Author | Joseph Holt Ingraham |
| Publisher | J. S. Pratt, 1849 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Oct 30, 2006 |
| Length | 441 pages |
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