| John Russell (author of Alfred Barton.) - 1858 - 394 pages
...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, and to see if any part... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...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 off' 1 Can the merchant... | |
| Race in literature - 1859 - 408 pages
...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 at the first by the... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1859 - 826 pages
...coalition, with the hoji. Member for Birmingham ensconced as " bodkin" between them. " Could sncli things be, And overcome us, like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ?" What wns the bond of union between this „choice triumvirate ? Was it peace Î That was not the... | |
| 1860 - 112 pages
...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 and body are healthy,... | |
| George Rose - Great Britain - 1860 - 554 pages
...tidings of Mr. Pitt's resignation were received by his followers, who seemed to say, " Can these things be, and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder?" Either not knowing, or not appreciating at their real value, the motives by which he was actuated,... | |
| Sir John Thomas Gilbert - Annals of the Four Masters - 1861 - 436 pages
...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 on a subject which... | |
| Garth Rivers - 1861 - 302 pages
...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 to-night ? " Mr. Gwynne... | |
| Medicine - 1850 - 412 pages
...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 of the oldest and most... | |
| Peter Livingston - Scottish poetry - 1862 - 150 pages
...to womankind, she is in poverty; the Christian philosopher, Dr Dick, is overlooked. Can such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder. Here is a man over whose eloquent pages millions in this country, in Europe, and America, have hung... | |
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