The Literary World, Volume 7S.R. Crocker, 1877 - Literature |
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... eyes , and commenting gravely on the tempts the wife to sit for Godiva ; after a long solemn act . This drama is in no respect a struggle , she consents . In the Isle of Wight , brilliant composition , but it has merit enough , Sir ...
... eyes , and commenting gravely on the tempts the wife to sit for Godiva ; after a long solemn act . This drama is in no respect a struggle , she consents . In the Isle of Wight , brilliant composition , but it has merit enough , Sir ...
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... eyes . It says of a recent number of this paper : ---- " We have examined the May number of the Literary World with great pleasure and profit . The editor , in closing the sixth vol- ume , states the design of this publication in these ...
... eyes . It says of a recent number of this paper : ---- " We have examined the May number of the Literary World with great pleasure and profit . The editor , in closing the sixth vol- ume , states the design of this publication in these ...
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... eyes and the sweat from her face , which I mode of life at this time was characteristic ; tion as this ( p . 124 ) : " In the history and did ; then she desired that she might lean her- he sat in his little room in the house on Her ...
... eyes and the sweat from her face , which I mode of life at this time was characteristic ; tion as this ( p . 124 ) : " In the history and did ; then she desired that she might lean her- he sat in his little room in the house on Her ...
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... eyes might be painted , the pure and pleasant philosophy , and deft dealing with the beings thoughts that peeped through them could and forces of the invisible world , bud forth only be seen and felt . ” " Women cannot , so on these ...
... eyes might be painted , the pure and pleasant philosophy , and deft dealing with the beings thoughts that peeped through them could and forces of the invisible world , bud forth only be seen and felt . ” " Women cannot , so on these ...
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... eye of a lady curious as to the belief clear idea of the causes which led to the due from her touching the future state . We downfall of the Stuarts . In its characteriza- can believe that she was comforted by her tion of the principal ...
... eye of a lady curious as to the belief clear idea of the causes which led to the due from her touching the future state . We downfall of the Stuarts . In its characteriza- can believe that she was comforted by her tion of the principal ...
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Page 149 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 149 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 149 - If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have the old Constitution unimpaired...
Page 136 - For this is the Great Story of the North, which should be to all 'our race what the Tale of Troy was to the Greeks — to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been — a story too — then should it be to those that come after us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us.
Page 149 - MY FRIENDS : No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again.
Page 149 - I have lived more than a quarter of a century, here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington.
Page 42 - ... There is no death! The dust we tread Shall change beneath the summer showers To golden grain or mellow fruit Or rainbow-tinted flowers.
Page 55 - That it should come to this: But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 135 - It was so calm, and so solitary, it did one good as one gazed around; and the pure mountain air was most refreshing. All seemed to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils.
Page 21 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.