The Century: A Popular Quarterly, Volume 110 |
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I wonder toward the Pacific coast by picking up why I never did it , never wanted to do rides in cars - a summer's adventure . it . John had carried him all of one day If he had been a bit wilder ...
I wonder toward the Pacific coast by picking up why I never did it , never wanted to do rides in cars - a summer's adventure . it . John had carried him all of one day If he had been a bit wilder ...
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No wonder it did not Grey , who owned race - horses of his knock him out as it did Herman and own , ran the livery - barn then , and John . John occasionally hired a rig there . There was a bench at the side of the He hired a rig and ...
No wonder it did not Grey , who owned race - horses of his knock him out as it did Herman and own , ran the livery - barn then , and John . John occasionally hired a rig there . There was a bench at the side of the He hired a rig and ...
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The settlers inspected their land , They seemed to celebrate the wonder- consulted with the farmstead engineer ful prune orchards , handsome fields of about house , buildings , equipment , alfalfa , meadows rustling with sturdy and the ...
The settlers inspected their land , They seemed to celebrate the wonder- consulted with the farmstead engineer ful prune orchards , handsome fields of about house , buildings , equipment , alfalfa , meadows rustling with sturdy and the ...
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... passion , humility , appear no more than a moving part of and wonder ; it is human , not divine , the invisible , now glided from the not animal , but the love of mortal for obscurity of the garden . mortal ; it is at your service .
... passion , humility , appear no more than a moving part of and wonder ; it is human , not divine , the invisible , now glided from the not animal , but the love of mortal for obscurity of the garden . mortal ; it is at your service .
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A bit of both , Mr. Justice , " I said ' How is he getting on , I wonder . laughingly . “ ' Oh , he is as shiftless as usual , I “ But most of that has been recorded suppose . Always puttering away in in a biography of him .
A bit of both , Mr. Justice , " I said ' How is he getting on , I wonder . laughingly . “ ' Oh , he is as shiftless as usual , I “ But most of that has been recorded suppose . Always puttering away in in a biography of him .
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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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