The Living Age, Volume 109E. Littell & Company, 1871 |
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... took them both away . In a few moments two other guests entered , and then first I found myself ashamed of my costume . With them the mother re- " Oh ! I don't know . Much like other entered , calling behind her , " There's no- boys . I ...
... took them both away . In a few moments two other guests entered , and then first I found myself ashamed of my costume . With them the mother re- " Oh ! I don't know . Much like other entered , calling behind her , " There's no- boys . I ...
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... took me in . " I did not reply at once . Clara's words appeared to me quite irreverent , and I re- coiled from the very thought that there could be any sham in nature ; but what to answer her I did not know . I almost be- gan to dislike ...
... took me in . " I did not reply at once . Clara's words appeared to me quite irreverent , and I re- coiled from the very thought that there could be any sham in nature ; but what to answer her I did not know . I almost be- gan to dislike ...
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... took up mind ) . Thus " the full - bottom , formally the whole Mall , the spectators making way combed all before , now denotes the lawyer for him , while he cocked his hat and and politician ; the smart tye wig , with a marched ...
... took up mind ) . Thus " the full - bottom , formally the whole Mall , the spectators making way combed all before , now denotes the lawyer for him , while he cocked his hat and and politician ; the smart tye wig , with a marched ...
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... took shares in Tory papers , wrote articles for them , and under- took an editorial supervision , with the de- liberate purpose of defeating the aims of the party to which , professedly , he was allied , and of the proprietors with whom ...
... took shares in Tory papers , wrote articles for them , and under- took an editorial supervision , with the de- liberate purpose of defeating the aims of the party to which , professedly , he was allied , and of the proprietors with whom ...
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... took off his hat to him in order to show becoming respect to the shade of his de- parted parent . In remembrance of that feat Mr. S nith got the nickname of Mr. Hamlet . ' But ' tis a nickname which the town has already forgotten ...
... took off his hat to him in order to show becoming respect to the shade of his de- parted parent . In remembrance of that feat Mr. S nith got the nickname of Mr. Hamlet . ' But ' tis a nickname which the town has already forgotten ...
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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.