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Page 9
... early part of the last century . Deeply impressed with his importance in the order of things , he had chosen to place it a little removed from the cluster of smaller dwellings about the Oxbow ; and with some vague fancy in his mind of ...
... early part of the last century . Deeply impressed with his importance in the order of things , he had chosen to place it a little removed from the cluster of smaller dwellings about the Oxbow ; and with some vague fancy in his mind of ...
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... early days writing verses himself to Celia or to Chloe , which sounded just as fine to him as Effie and Minnie sound to young people now , as Musidora , as Saccharissa , as Lesbia , as Helena , as Adah and Zillah , have all sounded to ...
... early days writing verses himself to Celia or to Chloe , which sounded just as fine to him as Effie and Minnie sound to young people now , as Musidora , as Saccharissa , as Lesbia , as Helena , as Adah and Zillah , have all sounded to ...
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... early compelled attendance on those occasions , when , with their hands firmly held in the maternal grasp , lest at the last moment they should bolt under cover of the darkness , they glided round into the back parts of the church ...
... early compelled attendance on those occasions , when , with their hands firmly held in the maternal grasp , lest at the last moment they should bolt under cover of the darkness , they glided round into the back parts of the church ...
Page 64
... early profuseness , but found means to move the sympathies of a cousin of the latter , a rich , eccentric old bachelor , who had long been estranged by a fam- ily quarrel . To this cousin he finally confided the character of the exile ...
... early profuseness , but found means to move the sympathies of a cousin of the latter , a rich , eccentric old bachelor , who had long been estranged by a fam- ily quarrel . To this cousin he finally confided the character of the exile ...
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... early times . The great Italian paint- ers , Titian , Paul Veronese , Giorgione , and others , had gold - red hair " on the brain . " Their beauties were nearly all crowned with a glory of the fascinating tint . In " beautiful Venice ...
... early times . The great Italian paint- ers , Titian , Paul Veronese , Giorgione , and others , had gold - red hair " on the brain . " Their beauties were nearly all crowned with a glory of the fascinating tint . In " beautiful Venice ...
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Page 443 - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 186 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; and they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 592 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O Sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 633 - A valuable contribution to the evidences of revelation, and disposes very conclusively of the arguments of those who would set God's Works against God's Word. No real difficulty is shirked, and no sophistry is left unexposed.
Page 418 - Commission of Inquiry and Advice in Respect of the Sanitary Interests of the United States Forces...
Page 597 - Stimulants, the only mode of treatment hitherto attempted, cannot quell the disease; they do but heighten the delirium.
Page 119 - AZgon, rough and merry, A Broadway Daphnis, on his tryst With Nais at the Brooklyn Ferry. A one-eyed Cyclops halted long In tattered cloak of army pattern; And Galatea joined the throng, — A blowsy, apple-vending slattern; While old Silenus staggered out From some new-fangled lunch-house handy, And bade the piper, with a shout. To strike up Yankee Doodle Dandy!
Page 52 - Old wives spinning their webs of tow, Or rocking weirdly to and fro In and out of the peat's dull glow, And old men mending their nets of twine, Talk together of dream and sign, Talk of the lost ship Palatine, — The ship that, a hundred years before, Freighted deep with its goodly store, In the gales of the equinox went ashore. The eager islanders one by one Counted the shots of her signal gun, And heard the crash when she drove right on...
Page 150 - Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud That beautifies Aurora's face, Or like the silver crimson shroud That Phoebus' smiling looks doth grace: Heigh ho, fair Rosalynde.
Page 654 - In the old French portion of the town, the thoroughfares are narrow and crooked, and some of the houses are very quaint and picturesque; being built of wood, with tumbledown galleries before the windows, approachable by stairs or rather ladders from the street. There are queer little barbers...