The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 66Atlantic Monthly Company, 1890 - American essays |
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... young girl , who sat near him , one summer morning , in a large parlor on the shady side of the house . The welcome watering - carts rumbled up and down the street , giving to the air the taste of sudden showers ; the breeze waved the ...
... young girl , who sat near him , one summer morning , in a large parlor on the shady side of the house . The welcome watering - carts rumbled up and down the street , giving to the air the taste of sudden showers ; the breeze waved the ...
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... young- quite young , I mean , ten years ago — I was a little bookworm ; very intellectual , I assure you , though you might not think it now . I read everything ; I was very precocious . I cared nothing for the other young girls and ...
... young- quite young , I mean , ten years ago — I was a little bookworm ; very intellectual , I assure you , though you might not think it now . I read everything ; I was very precocious . I cared nothing for the other young girls and ...
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... young men more highly . He says they are well read , and cultivated , and all that . Of course they are . It is their métier to be cultivated . But they know books , and nothing else . They don't know life ; they don't know human nature ...
... young men more highly . He says they are well read , and cultivated , and all that . Of course they are . It is their métier to be cultivated . But they know books , and nothing else . They don't know life ; they don't know human nature ...
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... young or old , married or single , Amer- ican or foreign . I only want them to be interesting . That does n't seem too much to ask of human nature , does it ? " Cousin Robert admitted that it did not , and added that if the congregation ...
... young or old , married or single , Amer- ican or foreign . I only want them to be interesting . That does n't seem too much to ask of human nature , does it ? " Cousin Robert admitted that it did not , and added that if the congregation ...
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... young girls . He had deeply set gray eyes , an aquiline nose , a large , firm chin , a finely chiseled mouth with flexible lips , about which were lines that showed a capacity for varying expression . The heavy lower jaw and broad ...
... young girls . He had deeply set gray eyes , an aquiline nose , a large , firm chin , a finely chiseled mouth with flexible lips , about which were lines that showed a capacity for varying expression . The heavy lower jaw and broad ...
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Page 673 - The Constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one supreme court and such inferior courts as Congress shall, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Page 27 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, on the subject of the proposed Stamp Act.
Page 138 - Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Page 663 - Fair youth beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare. Bold lover, never — never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal ; yet do not grieve, She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair.
Page 213 - Bookes to it, the gifts of diverse of our friends, their Chambers and studies also fitted for, and possessed by the Students, and all other roomes of Office necessary and convenient, with all needfull Offices thereto belonging...
Page 663 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 669 - And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
Page 512 - I know you young men are all in love with Mrs. Arnold, and wish to get where she is as soon as possible. You may go and take your breakfast with her, and tell her not to wait for me; for I must ride down and examine the redoubts on this side of the river, and will be there in a short time.
Page 390 - ... poetry" in which the reader must make the rhythms which the poet has not made for him, then I think we had better continue literary colonists. I shrink from a lawless independence to which all the virile energy and trampling audacity of Mr. Whitman fail to reconcile me. But there is room for everybody and everything in our huge hemisphere. Young America is like a three-year-old colt with his saddle and bridle just taken off. The first thing he wants to do is to roll. He is a droll object, sprawling...
Page 388 - A world primal again, vistas of glory incessant and branching, A new race dominating previous ones and grander far, with new contests, New politics, new literatures and religions, new inventions and arts.