The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 77Atlantic Monthly Company, 1896 |
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... taken place at one o'clock , and now , at quarter past two , I stood at the schoolhouse win- dow , looking down at the procession as it went along the lower road close to the shore . It was a walking funeral , and even at that distance ...
... taken place at one o'clock , and now , at quarter past two , I stood at the schoolhouse win- dow , looking down at the procession as it went along the lower road close to the shore . It was a walking funeral , and even at that distance ...
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... taken to the pastor's house until I got better ; but they were crowded , and I felt myself in the way , and made excuse to join with an old sea- man , a Scotchman , who had built him a warm cabin , and had room in it for an- other . He ...
... taken to the pastor's house until I got better ; but they were crowded , and I felt myself in the way , and made excuse to join with an old sea- man , a Scotchman , who had built him a warm cabin , and had room in it for an- other . He ...
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... taken up with their own notions ; some did n't even take pains to answer the let- ters I wrote . You observe that I said this crippled man Gaffett had been shipped on a voyage of discovery . I now tell you that the ship was lost on its ...
... taken up with their own notions ; some did n't even take pains to answer the let- ters I wrote . You observe that I said this crippled man Gaffett had been shipped on a voyage of discovery . I now tell you that the ship was lost on its ...
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... taken away or something . He had all his directions written out straight as a string to give the right ones . I wanted him to trust ' em to me , so I might have something to show , but he would n't . I suppose he's dead now . I wrote to ...
... taken away or something . He had all his directions written out straight as a string to give the right ones . I wanted him to trust ' em to me , so I might have something to show , but he would n't . I suppose he's dead now . I wrote to ...
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... in contrast with the family shoes which stood in a row on a cupboard , neatly blacked , both wood and leather . I had taken the precaution to bring coffee and tea from Paris . She always had a porce- lain 1896. ] 33 A Farm in Marne .
... in contrast with the family shoes which stood in a row on a cupboard , neatly blacked , both wood and leather . I had taken the precaution to bring coffee and tea from Paris . She always had a porce- lain 1896. ] 33 A Farm in Marne .
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Page 599 - Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate! And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem...
Page 520 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Page 29 - I was disobedient ; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault ; I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bareheaded in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.
Page 190 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 585 - BELOW the thunders of the upper deep ; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth : faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides : above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height ; And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumber'd and enormous polypi Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
Page 271 - In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?
Page 583 - But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies, Where the lean black craft like flies Seem well-nigh stagnated, Soon to drop off dead. Seemed it so to us When I was thine and thou wast mine, And all these things were thus, But all our world in us ? Could we be so now ? Not if all beneath heaven's pall Lay dead but I and thou, Could we be so now ! THE WOODSPURGE.
Page 190 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 518 - ... point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast, as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude (of the same meridian) ; and finally, from the said point of intersection, the said meridian line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean.
Page 591 - Yet may I not forget that I was 'ware, So journeying, of his face at intervals Transfigured where the fringed horizon falls, — A fiery bush with coruscating hair. And now that I have climbed and won this height, I must tread downward through the sloping shade And Travel the bewildered tracks till night. Yet for this hour I still may here be stayed And see the gold air and the...