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In a few years, he bitterly predicted, his poetic eye would not be “rolling in a fine frenzy, but steadily fixed on the pole-star of humanity, $!”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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In a few years, he bitterly predicted, his poetic eye would not be “rolling in a fine frenzy, but steadily fixed on the pole-star of humanity, $!”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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'Tis the general humour of all lovers, she is their stern, pole-star, and guide.
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The pole-star, exactly opposite my cabin door, burned like a lamp.
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Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
Been here before? Chickenlady 2007
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Euripes, and a great rock of loadstones, which may cause the needle in the compass still to bend that way, and what should be the true cause of the variation of the compass, [2998] is it a magnetical rock, or the pole-star, as Cardan will; or some other star in the bear, as
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Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
Archive 2007-06-01 Chickenlady 2007
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How faithfully did she instil into his young bosom those principles which had been the pole-star of the existence of his gallant father!
Burlesques 2006
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How faithfully did she instil into his young bosom those principles which had been the pole-star of the existence of his gallant father!
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Who can doubt, that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years?
The American Scholar 2006
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