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... expressed to me in April , 1850 , that I should resume the pen I had laid aside , after the publication , in 1848 , of " Peter Schlemihl in America . " The plan of my book was suggested to me by Haw- thorne's inimitable allegory , " The ...
... expressed to me in April , 1850 , that I should resume the pen I had laid aside , after the publication , in 1848 , of " Peter Schlemihl in America . " The plan of my book was suggested to me by Haw- thorne's inimitable allegory , " The ...
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... expressed especially toward the ladies , he took his departure . The hour of retiring having come , our ladies withdrew , after having obtained the accustomed promise from their husbands not to sit up talking till past midnight . The ...
... expressed especially toward the ladies , he took his departure . The hour of retiring having come , our ladies withdrew , after having obtained the accustomed promise from their husbands not to sit up talking till past midnight . The ...
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... expressed , as she pictured the wildness of the waves rolling up and sweeping her off her feet , while she was upheld by her attendant beaux ; one gentleman , in particular , Miss Julia described as a handsome French count . She was ...
... expressed , as she pictured the wildness of the waves rolling up and sweeping her off her feet , while she was upheld by her attendant beaux ; one gentleman , in particular , Miss Julia described as a handsome French count . She was ...
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... expressed , and so sweetly too , by that gentle , loving wife to Frank ? It is all nature , and is spoken in every modulation of her voice , and every glance of her eye . I wish to heaven there were more such wives in the world , and ...
... expressed , and so sweetly too , by that gentle , loving wife to Frank ? It is all nature , and is spoken in every modulation of her voice , and every glance of her eye . I wish to heaven there were more such wives in the world , and ...
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... expressed by the nearest friend than by Mrs. S. One would have believed the friendship had been the growth of years ; but it was not so , for an exchange of calls last year was all they knew of each other . This lady belonged to the ...
... expressed by the nearest friend than by Mrs. S. One would have believed the friendship had been the growth of years ; but it was not so , for an exchange of calls last year was all they knew of each other . This lady belonged to the ...
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Page 330 - High and more high It dives into noon, With wing unspent, Untold intent; But it is a god, Knows its own path And the outlets of the sky. It was never for the mean; It requireth courage stout. Souls above doubt...
Page 62 - When one, that holds communion with the skies, Has filled his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis even as if an Angel shook his wings; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied.
Page 331 - ... forever, Free as an Arab Of thy beloved. Cling with life to the maid; But when the surprise, First vague shadow of surmise Flits across her bosom young, Of a joy apart from thee, Free be she, fancy-free; Nor thou detain her vesture's hem, Nor the palest rose she flung From her summer diadem. Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Though her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive; Heartily know, When half-gods go. The gods arrive.
Page 153 - But yet, when the Son of man cometh, will he find faith on the earth...
Page 331 - To-morrow, forever, Free as an Arab Of thy beloved. Cling with life to the maid; But when the surprise, First vague shadow of surmise Flits across her bosom young, Of a joy apart from thee, Free be she, fancy-free; Nor thou detain her vesture's hern, Nor the palest rose she flung From her summer diadem.
Page 358 - They bear the mandate ; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery : Let it work, For 't is the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar...
Page 396 - ... and the fust thing you know, he cums down, and down, and down, and is a fillin' himself on the carkiss of a dead hoss by the side of the road, and "He played on a harp uv a thousand strings, sperits uv jest men made perfeck.
Page 203 - To all my foes, dear Fortune, send Thy gifts, but never to my friend : I tamely can endure the first ; But this with envy makes me burst.
Page 231 - I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto the Lord, which is your reasonable service.
Page 396 - And then, my brethring, thar's the Baptist, ah! and they have been likened unto a possum on a 'simmon tree, and thunders may roll and the earth may quake, but that possum clings thar still, ah ! and you may shake one foot loose, and the other's thar, and you may shake all feet loose, and he laps his tail around the limb, and clings, and he clings furever, for "He played on the harp uv a thousand strings, sperits uv jest men made perfeck.