The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 44Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1892 - American literature |
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Page 39
... things generally into shape . He bought a new suit of clothes and a second - hand two- seated carriage , notwithstanding the sarcastic reflection of his partner , who was making his own silent comment upon this thing . " The paternal ...
... things generally into shape . He bought a new suit of clothes and a second - hand two- seated carriage , notwithstanding the sarcastic reflection of his partner , who was making his own silent comment upon this thing . " The paternal ...
Page 41
... thing we can do . We'll send her right back , an ' take our chances on the crops . We can git enough to live on an ' keep her at school , I guess . " They sat silent for a long time , while the wind tore round the shed , Bert spearing ...
... thing we can do . We'll send her right back , an ' take our chances on the crops . We can git enough to live on an ' keep her at school , I guess . " They sat silent for a long time , while the wind tore round the shed , Bert spearing ...
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... thing about the whelp , " thought Bert , as he crushed Kendall's slim , lax hand in his just to see him scringe . As for the bridegroom , he was not a little afraid of these fellows , so big and so sullen , and tried his best to please ...
... thing about the whelp , " thought Bert , as he crushed Kendall's slim , lax hand in his just to see him scringe . As for the bridegroom , he was not a little afraid of these fellows , so big and so sullen , and tried his best to please ...
Page 43
... thing like that . " Arriving at this understanding , they said no more about it , but set to work to make it all as pleasant for Flaxen as possible . Anson stood bravely through the ceremony as the father of the bride , and bore himself ...
... thing like that . " Arriving at this understanding , they said no more about it , but set to work to make it all as pleasant for Flaxen as possible . Anson stood bravely through the ceremony as the father of the bride , and bore himself ...
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... thing ? " " " I don't know , mother . But he trusted me to do it , and I can't be false to him . ” " Well , you'll kill yourself , " she said weakly . " Why can't you let Ben do it ? He's willing and able . " " How can you suggest such ...
... thing ? " " " I don't know , mother . But he trusted me to do it , and I can't be false to him . ” " Well , you'll kill yourself , " she said weakly . " Why can't you let Ben do it ? He's willing and able . " " How can you suggest such ...
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Page 144 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
Page 185 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 181 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 470 - ... duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power, and it shall be his duty...
Page 182 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side...
Page 610 - But I have sinuous shells, of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace porch; where when unyoked His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens, then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Page 469 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever, and so often as the President shall be satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee. tea and hides, raw and uncurcd. or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States...
Page 203 - That whenever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction parallel to the coast from the 56th degree of north latitude to the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned...
Page 186 - IF thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, Then, to the measure of that heaven-born light, Shine, Poet ! in thy place, and be content : — The stars pre-eminent in magnitude, And they that from the zenith dart their beams, (Visible though they be to half the earth, Though half a sphere be conscious of their brightness) Are yet of no diviner origin, No purer essence, than the one that burns, Like an untended watch-fire on the ridge...
Page 369 - All passes. ART alone Enduring stays to us ; The Bust out-lasts the throne, The Coin, Tiberius ; Even the gods must go ; Only the lofty Rhyme Not countless years o'erthrow,— Not long array of time.