The Century: A Popular Quarterly, Volume 110 |
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When he had left the Middle down through small valleys , seeing the Western town to go live in New York white farm - houses set back from the City he was twenty - two , and now , on road , and the big red barns . his way back there ...
When he had left the Middle down through small valleys , seeing the Western town to go live in New York white farm - houses set back from the City he was twenty - two , and now , on road , and the big red barns . his way back there ...
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John Holden was forty on the day Once it had been — how they had when he sat at lunch at the hotel in felt , he and Lillian , sitting there to the town ten miles from Caxton . gether ! It had been rather hard to Now , he thought ...
John Holden was forty on the day Once it had been — how they had when he sat at lunch at the hotel in felt , he and Lillian , sitting there to the town ten miles from Caxton . gether ! It had been rather hard to Now , he thought ...
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John Holden's mind flashed pictures Men were at work in the fields and in of hot Eastern deserts , crowded Asithe towns , farmers drove into towns atic towns , wild half - savage mountain in their cars , clouds of dust arose on ...
John Holden's mind flashed pictures Men were at work in the fields and in of hot Eastern deserts , crowded Asithe towns , farmers drove into towns atic towns , wild half - savage mountain in their cars , clouds of dust arose on ...
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He was small town , you yourself lighting reputed to be wild , a gambler and out ” — He remembered sharply that on drinker . the night , long before , as he sat with Once the cousin came to the Holden Lillian on the porch before her ...
He was small town , you yourself lighting reputed to be wild , a gambler and out ” — He remembered sharply that on drinker . the night , long before , as he sat with Once the cousin came to the Holden Lillian on the porch before her ...
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but- It was as though the uncle had John Holden was now walking along said , as though Lillian during that a residence street of a small Ohio town night long ago had said , composing in fancy a letter to his son Had they all said the ...
but- It was as though the uncle had John Holden was now walking along said , as though Lillian during that a residence street of a small Ohio town night long ago had said , composing in fancy a letter to his son Had they all said the ...
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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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Century: A Popular Quarterly, Volume 110 |
| Editors | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder |
| Publisher | Century Company, 1925 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Sep 2006 |
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