The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 29Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1847 - American periodicals |
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... feels it on the New Year . It is the general feeling ; Nature is beginning anew , and we must also begin anew . But is it not a fact that we live in a new moral atmosphere ; in 1 VOL . XXIX . 1 more light of mind , in more benevolence ...
... feels it on the New Year . It is the general feeling ; Nature is beginning anew , and we must also begin anew . But is it not a fact that we live in a new moral atmosphere ; in 1 VOL . XXIX . 1 more light of mind , in more benevolence ...
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... feeling , Would that all the lords of the creation could be resolved into one great hand , that so I might refuse it ! ' 6 But my subject is widows . Let me give you the history of one . It was the misfortune of ALICE DERVILLE to lose ...
... feeling , Would that all the lords of the creation could be resolved into one great hand , that so I might refuse it ! ' 6 But my subject is widows . Let me give you the history of one . It was the misfortune of ALICE DERVILLE to lose ...
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... feelings ; and the poor orphan's childhood was passed in the performance of distasteful tasks , or in the midst of turbulence and confusion . It was no slight addition to her misfortunes that she re- tained vivid recollections of a ...
... feelings ; and the poor orphan's childhood was passed in the performance of distasteful tasks , or in the midst of turbulence and confusion . It was no slight addition to her misfortunes that she re- tained vivid recollections of a ...
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... feelings ! Things began to look rather suspicious touching their visitor ; and though poor dear Mr. Benson insisted that his cupidity was excited by a certain corner - lot of which he was the owner , and that he would soon be in treaty ...
... feelings ! Things began to look rather suspicious touching their visitor ; and though poor dear Mr. Benson insisted that his cupidity was excited by a certain corner - lot of which he was the owner , and that he would soon be in treaty ...
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... feelings of the amiable reader . The report is soon rife in the land that the portionless orphan has secured the ... feeling of marble , the fitting words were spoken and the sacrifice completed . A distinguished writer , whose works ...
... feelings of the amiable reader . The report is soon rife in the land that the portionless orphan has secured the ... feeling of marble , the fitting words were spoken and the sacrifice completed . A distinguished writer , whose works ...
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Page 337 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 371 - By a daisy whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me, Than all Nature's beauties can, In some other wiser man.
Page 265 - God, as he doth hang the greatest weight upon the smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts thereof. But lives, if they be well written, propounding to themselves a person to represent, in whom actions both greater and smaller, public and private, have a commixture, must of necessity contain a more true, native, and lively representation.
Page 95 - I say, like the stertorous, unquiet slumber of sick Life, is heard in Heaven ! Oh, under that hideous coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermentingvat lies simmering and hid! The joyful and the sorrowful are there; men are dying there, men are being born; men are praying, — on the other side of a brick partition, men are cursing; and around them all is the vast, void Night.
Page 477 - Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice : To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight.
Page 312 - The prairies had been his school ; he could neither read nor write, but he had a natural refinement and delicacy of mind, such as is rare even in women. His manly face was a mirror of uprightness, simplicity, and kindness of heart ; he had, moreover, a keen perception of character, and a tact that would preserve him from flagrant error in any society.
Page 372 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 371 - I saw I could some invention draw, And raise pleasure to her height Through the meanest object's sight. By the murmur of a spring...
Page 371 - In the very gall of sadness. The dull loneness, the black shade, That these hanging vaults have made ; The strange music of the waves Beating on these hollow caves ; This black den, which rocks emboss, Overgrown with eldest moss ; The rude portals that give light More to terror than delight ; This my chamber of neglect...
Page 389 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.