The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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A young lady ap- peared and escorted me out , threading her way with what seemed to me mar- velous dexterity through the maze of passages . Burning with curiosity , and fascina- ted already by the mystery of this ele- vated labyrinth ...
A young lady ap- peared and escorted me out , threading her way with what seemed to me mar- velous dexterity through the maze of passages . Burning with curiosity , and fascina- ted already by the mystery of this ele- vated labyrinth ...
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A young lady ap- peared and escorted me out , threading her way with what seemed to me mar- velous dexterity through the maze of passages . Burning with curiosity , and fascina- ted already by the mystery of this ele- vated labyrinth ...
A young lady ap- peared and escorted me out , threading her way with what seemed to me mar- velous dexterity through the maze of passages . Burning with curiosity , and fascina- ted already by the mystery of this ele- vated labyrinth ...
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Students still come to college to serve , come seeing visions too , being young — but visions of business . In the mul- titude of twenty college classes passing through my lecture - room I know of but one student to finish his course ...
Students still come to college to serve , come seeing visions too , being young — but visions of business . In the mul- titude of twenty college classes passing through my lecture - room I know of but one student to finish his course ...
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No father , asked for bread , would give a stone ; but when asked for truth and beauty and reality , how few of us have the courage to give a son what Jesus had , or Lincoln had , or the two years before the mast that young Richard ...
No father , asked for bread , would give a stone ; but when asked for truth and beauty and reality , how few of us have the courage to give a son what Jesus had , or Lincoln had , or the two years before the mast that young Richard ...
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Copses , ' I said to the young man who had inherited the English language , " what does " ragged copses " mean ? ' -- He took one profound look into his heritage , in the region of his dia- phragm , then cast his eyes slowly around the ...
Copses , ' I said to the young man who had inherited the English language , " what does " ragged copses " mean ? ' -- He took one profound look into his heritage , in the region of his dia- phragm , then cast his eyes slowly around the ...
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