Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 31Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells Harper's Magazine Company, 1865 Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... light and shade , the dazzle of its sun upon a cloudless sky , and its parched earth panting thirstily . some thought — a puzzled thought apparently- into the sand with his whip - lash , was aroused at last by a woman's voice behind him ...
... light and shade , the dazzle of its sun upon a cloudless sky , and its parched earth panting thirstily . some thought — a puzzled thought apparently- into the sand with his whip - lash , was aroused at last by a woman's voice behind him ...
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... lights were chasing each other deep into golden hollyhocks , and blazing in the scar- " I tell you no . I won't have any ... light dress that she wore fluttered in the wind ; her hands fluttered too , in a little nervous way they had ...
... lights were chasing each other deep into golden hollyhocks , and blazing in the scar- " I tell you no . I won't have any ... light dress that she wore fluttered in the wind ; her hands fluttered too , in a little nervous way they had ...
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... light filled the hollows ; the sickly willows at the road - side cast gray , cold shadows over him . I do not think he knew it . The flats with their stretch of unmown grass , the windows of the clustering houses by the river , the long ...
... light filled the hollows ; the sickly willows at the road - side cast gray , cold shadows over him . I do not think he knew it . The flats with their stretch of unmown grass , the windows of the clustering houses by the river , the long ...
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... light , he saw that for which he looked - a white horse daintily treading the pine - strewn road , his rider playing idly with a whip , and a gloved He turned away from the spot , walking rap- idly , beating the ground with his oaken ...
... light , he saw that for which he looked - a white horse daintily treading the pine - strewn road , his rider playing idly with a whip , and a gloved He turned away from the spot , walking rap- idly , beating the ground with his oaken ...
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... light in her face . Andrew's hand caught her . Would she have sprang into the grave ? He could not tell . She was quiet under his touch , and stood as be- fore . The crowd broke up at last . Only the sexton lingered about among the ...
... light in her face . Andrew's hand caught her . Would she have sprang into the grave ? He could not tell . She was quiet under his touch , and stood as be- fore . The crowd broke up at last . Only the sexton lingered about among the ...
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Page 192 - GOD Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 399 - I am a Jew. Hath not a, Jew eyes ? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Page 193 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 122 - HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9, 1865. "GENERAL: — I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. "RE LEE, General. "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL US GRANT.
Page 122 - The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
Page 122 - ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9, 1865. " GENERAL : I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. RE LEE, General. "Lieutenant-General US GRANT.
Page 202 - OH ! weep for the hour, When to Eveleen's bower The Lord of the Valley with false vows came ; The moon hid her light From the heavens that night, And wept behind her clouds o'er the maiden's shame. The clouds...
Page 225 - ... vanished. On lying down again, I saw it a second time, plainer, if possible, than before; and then I noticed that one of the faces was a little paler, say five shades, than the other. I got up and the thing melted away and I went off, and in the excitement of the hour forgot all about it — nearly, but not quite, for the thing would once in a while come up, and give me a little pang, as though something uncomfortable had happened.
Page 60 - ... ecclesiastic; the churches and monasteries, with the monuments which are therein extant; the walls and fortifications of cities and towns; and so the havens and harbours, antiquities and ruins, libraries, colleges, disputations, and lectures, where any are ; shipping and navies ; houses and gardens of state and pleasure, near great cities; armories, arsenals, magazines...
Page 124 - The Confederate armies now in existence to be disbanded and conducted to their several State capitals, there to deposit their arms and public property in the State arsenal; and each officer and man to execute and file an agreement to cease from acts of war, and to abide the action of the State and Federal authority.