The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 14; Volume 36Century Company, 1888 - American literature |
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... fire - engine nozzles , horse collars , an officer's sword , axe helves , carriage cushions , gilt brace- lets , iron barrel - hoops , trunks , accordions , three or four soup plates filled with old nails and screws , carving - knives ...
... fire - engine nozzles , horse collars , an officer's sword , axe helves , carriage cushions , gilt brace- lets , iron barrel - hoops , trunks , accordions , three or four soup plates filled with old nails and screws , carving - knives ...
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... fire near one end of the raft , drinking tea ; and I could not help fancying that I was looking at a fragment of a peasant village which had in some way gotten adrift in a freshet and was miraculously floating down the river with all ...
... fire near one end of the raft , drinking tea ; and I could not help fancying that I was looking at a fragment of a peasant village which had in some way gotten adrift in a freshet and was miraculously floating down the river with all ...
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... fire drinking tea , formed a strange , striking , and peculiarly Rus- sian picture . We traveled without stop throughout the night , changing horses at every post station , and making about eight miles an hour over a fairly good road ...
... fire drinking tea , formed a strange , striking , and peculiarly Rus- sian picture . We traveled without stop throughout the night , changing horses at every post station , and making about eight miles an hour over a fairly good road ...
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... fire in the grate fitfully illumines the forms and faces of two young women who are seated before it talking earnestly in low tones . It is apparent from their costumes that they have been spending the evening out . The fair girl in the ...
... fire in the grate fitfully illumines the forms and faces of two young women who are seated before it talking earnestly in low tones . It is apparent from their costumes that they have been spending the evening out . The fair girl in the ...
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... fire , listening to her fanciful talk about the The final touch to her humiliation was im- advantages which might be expected to attend parted by the reflection that she had done the franker relations in love affairs between men thing ...
... fire , listening to her fanciful talk about the The final touch to her humiliation was im- advantages which might be expected to attend parted by the reflection that she had done the franker relations in love affairs between men thing ...
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Page 53 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 588 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 60 - The whole of the laws which were required to be faithfully executed were being resisted and failing of execution in nearly one-third of the States. Must they be allowed to finally fail of execution, even had it been perfectly clear that by the use of the means necessary to their execution some single law, made in such extreme tenderness of the citizen's liberty that, practically, it relieves more of the guilty than of the innocent, should to a very limited extent be violated ? To state the question...
Page 279 - An act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes...
Page 42 - Not see? because of night perhaps? why, day Came back again for that! before it left, The dying sunset kindled through a cleft: The hills, like giants at a hunting, lay, Chin upon hand, to see the game at bay, "Now stab and end the creature to the heft!
Page 139 - Thou metest him by centuries, And lo ! he passes like the breeze ; Thou seek'st in globe and galaxy, He hides in pure transparency ; Thou askest in fountains and in fires, He is the essence that inquires. He is the axis of the star ; He is the sparkle of the spar ; He is the heart of every creature ; He is the meaning of each feature ; And his mind is the sky, Than all it holds more deep, more high.
Page 574 - Some prophet of that day said: "The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea, And Wickliffe's dust shall spread abroad, Wide as the waters be.
Page 430 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Page 167 - We have poems which seem to exist merely for the sake of single lines and passages ; not for the sake of producing any total impression. We have critics who seem to direct their attention merely to detached expressions, to the language about the action, not to the action itself.
Page 60 - Now, it is insisted that Congress and not the Executive is vested with this power. But the Constitution itself is silent as to which, or who, is to exercise the power; and as the provision was plainly made for a dangerous emergency, it cannot be believed the framers of the instrument intended that in every case the danger should run its course until Congress could be called together, the very assembling of which might be prevented, as was intended in this case, by the rebellion.