| 1857 - 626 pages
...stanza, Mr. Moir — himself a poet — expressly speaks with contempt. Well may we exclaim, • ' Can such things be, And overcome us, like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder 1 " As we find ourselves "racy of the soil," we shall see what Mr. Moir has to say... | |
| John Russell (author of Alfred Barton.) - 1858 - 394 pages
...She seemed to the astounded females, — alone in a foreign, popish country, — to have vanished. " Can such things be ? And overcome us, like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ! " • Gravely excited, both sisters ran up stairs, to examine their property,... | |
| 1859 - 408 pages
...the putting out the brains. So unequivocal is this construction, that he persists in rejoining : " Can such things be, and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder ? " It is also true to nature that this speculative tendency, is always overborne... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 pages
...Would a merciful Providence have given us talents', without designing that we should exert them' t Can such things be' — And overcome US', like a summer cloud', Without our special wonder' 1 Can the soldicr, when he girdeth on his armor, boast like him that putteth it... | |
| - Frame - 1860 - 110 pages
...same most undesirable manner by the more scientific hands of the common hangman. In an age like this "can such things be, and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder." The company should ascertain, before becoming surety for any life, that brain... | |
| 1851 - 424 pages
...the last stanza, Mr. Moir—himself a poet—expressly speaks with contempt. Well may we exclaim, '' Can such things be, And overcome us, like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder! " As we find ourselves "racy of the soil," we shall see what Mr. Moir has to say... | |
| Garth Rivers - 1861 - 302 pages
...Forrester ! whom Miss Stanford judged to have eyery good quality inherent. CHAPTER XXIII. A LIGHT. " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ? " " How it pours ! surely, Dr. Bryan, you can't think of walking back to Rhiw... | |
| 1850 - 412 pages
...a stupendous ass was brought forward to testify against an educated and scientific practitioner ! ' Can such things be, and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder !' "In the other instance, one of the same genus ' Doctor,' in a case where one... | |
| Sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1861 - 436 pages
...the last stanza, Mr. Moir—himself a poet—expressly speaks with contempt. Well may we exclaim, '' Can such things be, And overcome us, like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ! " As we find ourselves "racy of the soil," we shall see what Mr. Moir has to say... | |
| Edmund Baker - 1862 - 264 pages
...by him for Africa, after it had fallen into his do" minion, testifies that he had beheld the same." Can such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder ? CHAPTEE VI. THE DIALOGUE OP THE D1PABTED. Betwixt us and you there is a great... | |
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