The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 101Atlantic Monthly Company, 1908 - American essays |
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... friend bore his full share of the labor and went through very deep water before , at the end of five years of great ... friends were always ready to help the officers of the company , and the end was a great victory . It would be very ...
... friend bore his full share of the labor and went through very deep water before , at the end of five years of great ... friends were always ready to help the officers of the company , and the end was a great victory . It would be very ...
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... friends of Dana and Roe and Lambert , who had died in the field , that the work go on , the harsh reproaches of the men from the West . It would be betraying a trust , they said , to give up : it would be putting one's hand to the ...
... friends of Dana and Roe and Lambert , who had died in the field , that the work go on , the harsh reproaches of the men from the West . It would be betraying a trust , they said , to give up : it would be putting one's hand to the ...
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... friends with the children : and climbed the little hill beyond the Calvary , and looked at the great river running to the sea , wishing he might follow it . " There are many nice things here , " he said , invading the kitchen for cake ...
... friends with the children : and climbed the little hill beyond the Calvary , and looked at the great river running to the sea , wishing he might follow it . " There are many nice things here , " he said , invading the kitchen for cake ...
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... friends with Sorrow , mon petit ? " she asked , gazing at him strangely . “ I am grieved . Maxime and La Tristesse ... friends with Maxime's La Tristesse ? " he demanded of old Telephore . Telephore stared at him as Madame had done , and ...
... friends with Sorrow , mon petit ? " she asked , gazing at him strangely . “ I am grieved . Maxime and La Tristesse ... friends with Maxime's La Tristesse ? " he demanded of old Telephore . Telephore stared at him as Madame had done , and ...
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... friend to you and La Tristesse if you will have me , " said Hy- polite . " Monsieur honors us , " said Maxime simply , " but Loneliness and Sorrow are an ill pair of friends . ” Hypolite dined with Maxime and La Tristesse , under the ...
... friend to you and La Tristesse if you will have me , " said Hy- polite . " Monsieur honors us , " said Maxime simply , " but Loneliness and Sorrow are an ill pair of friends . ” Hypolite dined with Maxime and La Tristesse , under the ...
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Page 491 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Page 435 - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Page 371 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and .all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 581 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all, constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 210 - Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about. Content to let the north- wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast , Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed...
Page 211 - How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.
Page 210 - The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons...
Page 290 - No man has come to true greatness who has not felt, in some degree, that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him He gives him for mankind.
Page 442 - They sent influences to look after what was to hold me. Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care. All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
Page 389 - words of art" as he calls them, which Philemon Holland, a voluminous translator at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century...