Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 110Scribner & Company, 1925 |
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... him until too late . Youth , rather wild and undisci- plined , running wild , eh ? I wonder why I never did it , never wanted to do it . If he had been a bit wilder , more reckless - that night , that time when he and 6 THE CENTURY ...
... him until too late . Youth , rather wild and undisci- plined , running wild , eh ? I wonder why I never did it , never wanted to do it . If he had been a bit wilder , more reckless - that night , that time when he and 6 THE CENTURY ...
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... wonder it did not knock him out as it did Herman and John . There was a bench at the side of the railroad station , in the shade , and John sat there for a long time - two hours , three hours . Why had n't he brought a book ? In fancy ...
... wonder it did not knock him out as it did Herman and John . There was a bench at the side of the railroad station , in the shade , and John sat there for a long time - two hours , three hours . Why had n't he brought a book ? In fancy ...
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... wonder- ful prune orchards , handsome fields of alfalfa , meadows rustling with sturdy Kaffir corn , and browsing herds of high - bred cattle . The commission purchased 6200 acres from the Leland Stanford estate . Formerly the land ...
... wonder- ful prune orchards , handsome fields of alfalfa , meadows rustling with sturdy Kaffir corn , and browsing herds of high - bred cattle . The commission purchased 6200 acres from the Leland Stanford estate . Formerly the land ...
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... wonder ; it is human , not divine , not animal , but the love of mortal for mortal ; it is at your service . I love you ; I have loved many times and in many fashions , but this love is all your own . Use it as you will ; I have no ex ...
... wonder ; it is human , not divine , not animal , but the love of mortal for mortal ; it is at your service . I love you ; I have loved many times and in many fashions , but this love is all your own . Use it as you will ; I have no ex ...
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... wonder . ' ' Oh , he is as shiftless as usual , I suppose . Always puttering away in that old shop of his . He'll never amount to his salt , ' and more in a sim- ilar strain . A second meeting between the two was supposed to occur after ...
... wonder . ' ' Oh , he is as shiftless as usual , I suppose . Always puttering away in that old shop of his . He'll never amount to his salt , ' and more in a sim- ilar strain . A second meeting between the two was supposed to occur after ...
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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.