American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 48Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1856 - American periodicals |
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... less walls . These wicker - walls - for such is their construction in the Danubian cities - are so well plastered , internally and externally , as to defy the eye of the curious howadji on the qui vive for the veiled beauties within ...
... less walls . These wicker - walls - for such is their construction in the Danubian cities - are so well plastered , internally and externally , as to defy the eye of the curious howadji on the qui vive for the veiled beauties within ...
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... less than true of the Turkish and Arab troops who defended Silistria during an eventful siege of thirty - nine days . In vain did Paskiewitch attempt to unlock the gates of Silistria with a golden key . By the side of one of the ruined ...
... less than true of the Turkish and Arab troops who defended Silistria during an eventful siege of thirty - nine days . In vain did Paskiewitch attempt to unlock the gates of Silistria with a golden key . By the side of one of the ruined ...
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... less devout Nizam , overrunning province after province , with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other . An officer appeared to lead , and they performed their prostrations and semi - prostrations as if they had been accustomed ...
... less devout Nizam , overrunning province after province , with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other . An officer appeared to lead , and they performed their prostrations and semi - prostrations as if they had been accustomed ...
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... less severe for this outward calm ; and the nervous energy wasted fast in its effort to aid the strong will to overcome and subdue . No panics or hysterics ever revealed my soul's agony ; but suffering did not less surely perform its ...
... less severe for this outward calm ; and the nervous energy wasted fast in its effort to aid the strong will to overcome and subdue . No panics or hysterics ever revealed my soul's agony ; but suffering did not less surely perform its ...
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... less valued because I was obliged to consult Flora's interpreters in order fully to understand their import . Lilies and geraniums were not letters , but they were right eloquent messen- gers on love's errands ; and when I had formed a ...
... less valued because I was obliged to consult Flora's interpreters in order fully to understand their import . Lilies and geraniums were not letters , but they were right eloquent messen- gers on love's errands ; and when I had formed a ...
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Page 308 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee : Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Page 36 - From the rich peasant cheek of ruddy bronze, And large black eyes that flash on you a volley Of rays that say a thousand things at once, To the high dama's brow, more melancholy, But clear, and with a wild and liquid glance, Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.
Page 264 - ... that general Visitation™ of GOD, Who saw that all that He had made was good, that is, conformable to His Will, which abhors deformity, and is the rule of order and beauty. There is no deformity but in Monstrosity; wherein, notwithstanding, there is a kind of Beauty; Nature so ingeniously contriving the irregular parts, as they become sometimes more remarkable than the principal Fabrick.
Page 242 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Page 151 - Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Page 151 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed Angler ; for when the Lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the Statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 511 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 308 - Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful doze I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.
Page 188 - this pallid hue ! This blood my veins is clotting in. My years are many ; they were few When first I entered at the U— niversity of Gottingen — niversity of Gottingen...
Page 308 - twere possible After long grief and pain To find the arms of my true love Round me once again...