The Living Age, Volume 109E. Littell & Company, 1871 |
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... head . " Meantime hadn't better give me your diamond pin ? It would fasten this troublesome collar so nicely ! " " There child ! " he answered , proceed- ing to take it from his shirt . Anything else ? " 66 " No , no , papa dear . I ...
... head . " Meantime hadn't better give me your diamond pin ? It would fasten this troublesome collar so nicely ! " " There child ! " he answered , proceed- ing to take it from his shirt . Anything else ? " 66 " No , no , papa dear . I ...
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... head . " " I never read the Pilgrim's Progress , " she returned , in a careless if not contemp- tuous tone . " Didn't you ? Oh , you would like it so much ! " " I don't think I should . I don't like religious books . " - " Oh ! dear no ...
... head . " " I never read the Pilgrim's Progress , " she returned , in a careless if not contemp- tuous tone . " Didn't you ? Oh , you would like it so much ! " " I don't think I should . I don't like religious books . " - " Oh ! dear no ...
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... head and addressed me sud- denly . “ You see it was all a sham , Wilfrid ! " she said . " What was a sham ? I don't know what you mean , " I rejoined . " Why that , " she returned , pointing with her hand . Then addressing her father ...
... head and addressed me sud- denly . “ You see it was all a sham , Wilfrid ! " she said . " What was a sham ? I don't know what you mean , " I rejoined . " Why that , " she returned , pointing with her hand . Then addressing her father ...
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... head of people dead of the plague . " A very awkward ques- tion , one would have thought , for all wearers of periwigs , but which had no practical issue . The subject of dress , viewed on its psychological side , presents no phenomenon ...
... head of people dead of the plague . " A very awkward ques- tion , one would have thought , for all wearers of periwigs , but which had no practical issue . The subject of dress , viewed on its psychological side , presents no phenomenon ...
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... head to foot as the equivalent for wit the same who had thrown together some hasty observations upon stockings , of which his friends told him he need not be ashamed- that it is intolerable for a blockhead to be a sloven ; and though ...
... head to foot as the equivalent for wit the same who had thrown together some hasty observations upon stockings , of which his friends told him he need not be ashamed- that it is intolerable for a blockhead to be a sloven ; and though ...
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Page 210 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 369 - A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora.
Page 451 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Page 64 - In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight whence England bore the bell. Go to Paris; rank on rank Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank! You shall look long enough ere you come to Herve Riel.
Page 201 - he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 177 - And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 63 - Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this Formidable clear, Make the others follow mine, And I lead them, most and least, by a passage I know well...
Page 218 - Before his work be done; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But...
Page 326 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: ;"Tis clear...
Page 27 - I'll read, his for his love." XXXIII Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.