The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 19Atlantic Monthly Company, 1867 |
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... hundred years ago was clicking the steady pulse - beats of its second century . The featured moon on its dial had lifted one eye , as if to watch the child , as it had watched so many gen- erations of children , while the swinging ...
... hundred years ago was clicking the steady pulse - beats of its second century . The featured moon on its dial had lifted one eye , as if to watch the child , as it had watched so many gen- erations of children , while the swinging ...
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... hundred years ago , the British Museum and the Bodleian Li- brary had each but about ten thousand volumes . The Imperial Library at Paris had then but fifty thousand , and the present century has added the most valuable half of its ...
... hundred years ago , the British Museum and the Bodleian Li- brary had each but about ten thousand volumes . The Imperial Library at Paris had then but fifty thousand , and the present century has added the most valuable half of its ...
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... hundred ? The hundred contributed their lives , their hopes , their passions , their despairs , to enrich the one . Ge- nius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it . How sad seems the intellectual isolation ...
... hundred ? The hundred contributed their lives , their hopes , their passions , their despairs , to enrich the one . Ge- nius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it . How sad seems the intellectual isolation ...
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... hundred and seventy- five thousand dollars were thencefor- ward to be exerted on behalf of objects which he esteemed the highest . therefore the church before our view cannot boast of a numerous attendance , it more than consoles itself ...
... hundred and seventy- five thousand dollars were thencefor- ward to be exerted on behalf of objects which he esteemed the highest . therefore the church before our view cannot boast of a numerous attendance , it more than consoles itself ...
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... hundred persons . Those celestial strains of music , -well , they enchant the ear , if the ear hap- pens to be within hearing of them ; but somehow they do not furnish a continuous attraction . When this fine prelude is ended , the ...
... hundred persons . Those celestial strains of music , -well , they enchant the ear , if the ear hap- pens to be within hearing of them ; but somehow they do not furnish a continuous attraction . When this fine prelude is ended , the ...
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Page 445 - 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 188 - 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 635 - 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 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 596 - Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Page 261 - Far in the deep, where darkness dwells. The land of horror and despair, — Justice has built a dismal hell, And laid her stores of vengeance there 3 (Eternal plagues and heavy chains, Tormenting racks and fiery coals, — And darts to inflict immortal pains, Dyed in the blood of damned souls.
Page 656 - 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...
Page 491 - Nr.ture fails my walks to bless With all her golden inwardness ; And as blind nestlings, unafraid, Stretch up wide-mouthed to every shade By which their downy dream is stirred, Taking it for the mother-bird, So, when God's shadow, which is light, Unheralded, by day or night, My wakening instincts falls across, Silent as sunbeams over moss, In my heart's nest half-conscious things Stir with a helpless sense of wings, Lift themselves up, and tremble long With premonitions sweet of song.
Page 261 - And darts t' inflict immortal pains, Dyed in the blood of damne*d souls." This last verse was a duet, and not a trio. Myrtle closed her lips while it was singing, and when it was done threw down the book with a look of anger and disgust. The hunted soul was at bay. " I won't sing such words," she said, " and I won't stay here to hear them sung.
Page 92 - O Goddess ! sing the wrath of Peleus' son, Achilles ; sing the deadly wrath that brought Woes numberless upon the Greeks, and swept To Hades many a valiant soul, and gave Their limbs a prey to dogs and birds of air, — For so had Jove appointed, — from the time When the two chiefs, Atrides, king of men, And great Achilles, parted first as foes.