American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 48Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1856 - American periodicals |
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... LETTER TO THE EDITOR FROM MACKINAW . ད NEW PUBLICATIONS , ART - NOTICES , ETC. 1. CHRISTINE , OR WOMAN'S TRIALS . 2. DREAMS AND REALITIES OF A PASTOR AND TEACHER . ' 3. PARISIAN AND ROMAN SIGHTS AND PRINCIPLES . 4. HENRY'S LOCKE'S ESSAY ...
... LETTER TO THE EDITOR FROM MACKINAW . ད NEW PUBLICATIONS , ART - NOTICES , ETC. 1. CHRISTINE , OR WOMAN'S TRIALS . 2. DREAMS AND REALITIES OF A PASTOR AND TEACHER . ' 3. PARISIAN AND ROMAN SIGHTS AND PRINCIPLES . 4. HENRY'S LOCKE'S ESSAY ...
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... letters , calling now and then where a friendly door opened to them but refusing to be comforted for the loss of their old dear home .'- Courier , Burlington Vt . " The great care evinced in the selection of articles that adorn its ...
... letters , calling now and then where a friendly door opened to them but refusing to be comforted for the loss of their old dear home .'- Courier , Burlington Vt . " The great care evinced in the selection of articles that adorn its ...
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... letter was not answered ; but I knew as well as written words could tell me , that my dream of happiness was over ... letter a love - letter , the first my eyes had perused ; and notwithstanding the heaviness of my spirit , thrilled it ...
... letter was not answered ; but I knew as well as written words could tell me , that my dream of happiness was over ... letter a love - letter , the first my eyes had perused ; and notwithstanding the heaviness of my spirit , thrilled it ...
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... letter . Yes , ' he said ; he could wait - wait patiently as long as Jacob waited for Rachel , if he might then be sure he should have his reward . It seemed a mysterious trial , and quite unnecessary ; but he had been greatly misjudged ...
... letter . Yes , ' he said ; he could wait - wait patiently as long as Jacob waited for Rachel , if he might then be sure he should have his reward . It seemed a mysterious trial , and quite unnecessary ; but he had been greatly misjudged ...
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... letters , but they were right eloquent messen- gers on love's errands ; and when I had formed a little herbarium of flowers which had been culled in field and forest and by the meadow- brook , selected among rare exotics in the ...
... letters , but they were right eloquent messen- gers on love's errands ; and when I had formed a little herbarium of flowers which had been culled in field and forest and by the meadow- brook , selected among rare exotics in the ...
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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...