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... wife , his children and his friends ; and creates , from the common material that every - day sounds furnish - from the talk of the fireside ; from a friend's voice reading the daily newspaper ; from the street cries , the tread of many ...
... wife , his children and his friends ; and creates , from the common material that every - day sounds furnish - from the talk of the fireside ; from a friend's voice reading the daily newspaper ; from the street cries , the tread of many ...
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... wives and little ones , their hounds and rifles . The religious service is gone through , regularly as in a cathedral . At its close , our young friend opens the capacious pockets of his saddle - bags , displaying on the split - bottom ...
... wives and little ones , their hounds and rifles . The religious service is gone through , regularly as in a cathedral . At its close , our young friend opens the capacious pockets of his saddle - bags , displaying on the split - bottom ...
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... wife . And the land of the future is none the richer for chivalry , save by a spray of amaranth and a sprig of cypress , from the graves of a gallant knight and a true - hearted lady . Jesuitism and feudalism next sought to achieve the ...
... wife . And the land of the future is none the richer for chivalry , save by a spray of amaranth and a sprig of cypress , from the graves of a gallant knight and a true - hearted lady . Jesuitism and feudalism next sought to achieve the ...
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... Wife and children are near at hand to say good - bye , perhaps for ever . Tears overflow the eye , unused to weep . A hasty farewell , and he is gone . A toilsome march of six weeks , with five com- panions , across the Alleghanies ...
... Wife and children are near at hand to say good - bye , perhaps for ever . Tears overflow the eye , unused to weep . A hasty farewell , and he is gone . A toilsome march of six weeks , with five com- panions , across the Alleghanies ...
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... joined , and the good man's benediction is given as he pronounces them man and wife . The new hus- band asks , " Is that all , parson ? " A BACKWOODS MARRIAGE . " That's all I can do 46 THE RIFLE , AXE , AND SADDLE - BAGS .
... joined , and the good man's benediction is given as he pronounces them man and wife . The new hus- band asks , " Is that all , parson ? " A BACKWOODS MARRIAGE . " That's all I can do 46 THE RIFLE , AXE , AND SADDLE - BAGS .
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Page 116 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man, as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image : but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 88 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Page 121 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 144 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement. From garret to basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
Page 119 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Page 119 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 88 - Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 145 - In she plunged boldly — No matter how coldly The rough river ran — Over the brink of it! Picture it, think of it! Dissolute man! Lave in it, drink of it, Then, if you can! Take her up tenderly — Lift her with care! Fashioned so slenderly — Young, and so fair!
Page 116 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Page 111 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.