Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 102Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1921 - American literature |
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... head a shiny dome an Olympian , majestic even in disso- lution . The room had been lived in too long . It was a whirl of useless things : stag- gering chairs , clothes in piles , greasy medicine - bottles , and a vast writing- desk ...
... head a shiny dome an Olympian , majestic even in disso- lution . The room had been lived in too long . It was a whirl of useless things : stag- gering chairs , clothes in piles , greasy medicine - bottles , and a vast writing- desk ...
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... head of a full - page Sunday article : VICIOUS EUROPEAN CONSPIRACY HIDES DEATH OF GREATEST AMERICAN BARD I was piqued by their theft , but I was also amused to see the creation of a new mythical national hero . " The Gem " had Jason ...
... head of a full - page Sunday article : VICIOUS EUROPEAN CONSPIRACY HIDES DEATH OF GREATEST AMERICAN BARD I was piqued by their theft , but I was also amused to see the creation of a new mythical national hero . " The Gem " had Jason ...
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... head , but I recalled an obscure and provincial school , Titus College , of which I knew nothing . He lightened . " Oh , really ? Did you know I had my first instructorship in Titus ? Have n't had any news from there for years . How is ...
... head , but I recalled an obscure and provincial school , Titus College , of which I knew nothing . He lightened . " Oh , really ? Did you know I had my first instructorship in Titus ? Have n't had any news from there for years . How is ...
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... head ; " it is bad luck . " And subsequent events seemed to bear out the old Peshawari's presenti- ments . About a week later , of a sul- try evening , I was watching while the old fellow gathered in the bulbuls . As he was chasing ...
... head ; " it is bad luck . " And subsequent events seemed to bear out the old Peshawari's presenti- ments . About a week later , of a sul- try evening , I was watching while the old fellow gathered in the bulbuls . As he was chasing ...
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... head . He had not quite made up his mind what he was going to do to her . Joy stood quietly under his nose , holding an apple out on a flat hand , and murmuring affectionate and un- veracious praises of his nature . Skylark's great ...
... head . He had not quite made up his mind what he was going to do to her . Joy stood quietly under his nose , holding an apple out on a flat hand , and murmuring affectionate and un- veracious praises of his nature . Skylark's great ...
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Page 313 - Certain communities formerly belonging to the Turkish Empire have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally recognized subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory until such time as they are able to stand alone.
Page 135 - The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects respectively from the one country to the other for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.
Page 829 - And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Page 60 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 491 - ONCE did She hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea.
Page 256 - O attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Page 827 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round...
Page 124 - Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Page 302 - I am not for criticising hedgerows and black cattle. I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. There are those who for this purpose go to watering-places and carry the metropolis with them. I like more elbow-room and fewer incumbrances.
Page 256 - Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...