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The Analectic Magazine - Page 482
1813
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Selections from the Irish Quarterly Review: 1st ser. ...

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...
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The Jesuit in England; with the horrors of the Inquisition in Rome, Volume 526

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,...
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New Exegesis of Shakespeare: Interpretation of His Principal Characters and ...

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...
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The Standard First[-fifth] Reader ...

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...
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The Philosophy of Insanity

- 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...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 1, Part 2

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...
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Miss Gwynne of Woodford, Volume 2

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...
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American Medical Gazette and Journal of Health, Volume 1

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...
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The Celtic Records and Historic Literature of Ireland

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...
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“To be, or not to be?” or, Man's present and future condition considered. By ...

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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