Appletons' Journal, Volume 6D. Appleton and Company, 1879 - American literature |
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... picture . But the very next day , seated under the same tree , he returned to his dear torture , and after dwelling several minutes in contempla- tion of the picture which had thrown him into such a state of perturbation the day before ...
... picture . But the very next day , seated under the same tree , he returned to his dear torture , and after dwelling several minutes in contempla- tion of the picture which had thrown him into such a state of perturbation the day before ...
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... pictures , " as he expressed it in his confidential chats with his schoolmates , and with his brother , his first ... picture immediately presented itself before his eyes , and , spite of his resistance , his overcrowded brain placed ...
... pictures , " as he expressed it in his confidential chats with his schoolmates , and with his brother , his first ... picture immediately presented itself before his eyes , and , spite of his resistance , his overcrowded brain placed ...
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... pictures when fin- ished , entirely finished . Mounted on the scaffolding , where all at once he found himself in full view of the master painter's work , our young peasant stood in It was at that critical moment that a stripling ...
... pictures when fin- ished , entirely finished . Mounted on the scaffolding , where all at once he found himself in full view of the master painter's work , our young peasant stood in It was at that critical moment that a stripling ...
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... picture , and after honoring it with a " And where would you go , booby ? " he hasty glance , cast it aside , giving at the same ' Quite natural , " interposed Giovanni ; " the name of his parish is Sainte - Anne - du - Salat .... Then ...
... picture , and after honoring it with a " And where would you go , booby ? " he hasty glance , cast it aside , giving at the same ' Quite natural , " interposed Giovanni ; " the name of his parish is Sainte - Anne - du - Salat .... Then ...
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... picture called Judas betraying his Master . ' The scene is placed in the midst of an olive grove , and the moon ... pictures , one must see them ? " asked Jean Paul . 66 ' Certainly they must be seen . " " I thought people took them out ...
... picture called Judas betraying his Master . ' The scene is placed in the midst of an olive grove , and the moon ... pictures , one must see them ? " asked Jean Paul . 66 ' Certainly they must be seen . " " I thought people took them out ...
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Page 116 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Page 148 - twas a famous victory. 'My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly: So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 485 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 339 - Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter, Nature be, His art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the...
Page 496 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 155 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 265 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 354 - He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely: he doth bear His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress...
Page 395 - I will) unto the weird. sisters : More shall they speak ; for now I am bent to know, By the worst means, the worst : for mine own good, All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Page 153 - The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On...