Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 110Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1925 - American literature |
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... sure that everything was all right , that he had towels and soap and everything he needed . there was a watch company from Cin- cinnati talking of putting up a plant . " They figure there is less chance of labor trouble in a small town ...
... sure that everything was all right , that he had towels and soap and everything he needed . there was a watch company from Cin- cinnati talking of putting up a plant . " They figure there is less chance of labor trouble in a small town ...
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... sure feeling fine , I pushed back my hat , I picked up my twine . " Twine , " explained Charlie , " means rope , lasso , lariat . " He made a sug- Well , they lasted about a month . Of course THE BIRTH OF A BALLAD 23.
... sure feeling fine , I pushed back my hat , I picked up my twine . " Twine , " explained Charlie , " means rope , lasso , lariat . " He made a sug- Well , they lasted about a month . Of course THE BIRTH OF A BALLAD 23.
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... sure was a fight . Next came my saddle ; I screwed her down tight . " I stepped up into his middle And pulled up the blind . ' Git out of the road , boys ; Let's see him unwind . ' " I guess that old pony Sure come unwound , For he did ...
... sure was a fight . Next came my saddle ; I screwed her down tight . " I stepped up into his middle And pulled up the blind . ' Git out of the road , boys ; Let's see him unwind . ' " I guess that old pony Sure come unwound , For he did ...
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... sure ; I like a sailor - strictly yes or no . A pirate turban ' s priceless for a talk ; A rose - wreathed leghorn when one ' s feeling vain ; I fancy tricornes for the morning walk , And a little leather London slouch for rain ; Wide ...
... sure ; I like a sailor - strictly yes or no . A pirate turban ' s priceless for a talk ; A rose - wreathed leghorn when one ' s feeling vain ; I fancy tricornes for the morning walk , And a little leather London slouch for rain ; Wide ...
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... sure , to look quite old - fashioned by 1950. Or if the national histories are still in use , I am sure they will have been completely re - scaled , all their proportions over- hauled and subordinated to those of earth history as a ...
... sure , to look quite old - fashioned by 1950. Or if the national histories are still in use , I am sure they will have been completely re - scaled , all their proportions over- hauled and subordinated to those of earth history as a ...
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Page 338 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 437 - Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man ! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky, The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — There with the glorious General's name, Be it said, in letters both bold and bright, " Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester, twenty miles away!
Page 475 - Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Page 472 - tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Page 471 - But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Page 625 - We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
Page 471 - There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
Page 620 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 696 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 473 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.