The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 77Atlantic Monthly Company, 1896 |
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... tion . I know what I speak of ; those who have laughed at me little know how much reason my ideas are based upon . " He waved his hand toward the village below . " In that handful of houses they fancy that they comprehend the uni- verse ...
... tion . I know what I speak of ; those who have laughed at me little know how much reason my ideas are based upon . " He waved his hand toward the village below . " In that handful of houses they fancy that they comprehend the uni- verse ...
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... tion . I expected a larger river where I found only a clear quick brook . I believe I had imaged a valley enclosed by rocks , and terminated by a broad expanse of water . " Nevertheless he maintains that " he that has seen Dovedale has ...
... tion . I expected a larger river where I found only a clear quick brook . I believe I had imaged a valley enclosed by rocks , and terminated by a broad expanse of water . " Nevertheless he maintains that " he that has seen Dovedale has ...
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... tion of the men who passed them . If they spoke at all , it was in fluttering whispers to one another ; if they looked at anything , it was at one another's gowns . They are seldom pretty , these sallow daughters of France ; yet , like ...
... tion of the men who passed them . If they spoke at all , it was in fluttering whispers to one another ; if they looked at anything , it was at one another's gowns . They are seldom pretty , these sallow daughters of France ; yet , like ...
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... tion , and never have I found anything like the state of affairs which even the general public believes to exist . For every child forced by starvation to re- sort to the road I have met ten who were born there , and nearly the same ...
... tion , and never have I found anything like the state of affairs which even the general public believes to exist . For every child forced by starvation to re- sort to the road I have met ten who were born there , and nearly the same ...
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... tion ; to Mercedes least of all . With such natures as hers there also goes instinc- tive knowledge of how far male natures , most widely different , may be trusted . But Jamie had thought it over many times . Until one morning , James ...
... tion ; to Mercedes least of all . With such natures as hers there also goes instinc- tive knowledge of how far male natures , most widely different , may be trusted . But Jamie had thought it over many times . Until one morning , James ...
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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...