The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 101Atlantic Monthly Company, 1908 - American essays |
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... knew how pleasant it is when it only means somebody understands and likes you just as well— ” " Better , " said the voice . " I always like you better . Whatever you do , that's the effect it has . Now let's talk about your father . We ...
... knew how pleasant it is when it only means somebody understands and likes you just as well— ” " Better , " said the voice . " I always like you better . Whatever you do , that's the effect it has . Now let's talk about your father . We ...
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... knew the truth . She essayed a miserable gayety . " Very well , Electra , " she smiled , " call it So , if you like , but we won't say any more about it . I can't have houses made over to me . I may totter into the grave to - morrow ...
... knew the truth . She essayed a miserable gayety . " Very well , Electra , " she smiled , " call it So , if you like , but we won't say any more about it . I can't have houses made over to me . I may totter into the grave to - morrow ...
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... knew what else had happened . The prince had urged , " Go over to America . Influence her . Bring her back with you . " But this she did not say . The unbroken cordiality of his attitude al- ways made his best defense . If she had ever ...
... knew what else had happened . The prince had urged , " Go over to America . Influence her . Bring her back with you . " But this she did not say . The unbroken cordiality of his attitude al- ways made his best defense . If she had ever ...
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... knew , so she reflected , what that was . Rose had been between them . But she listened with an attentive gravity . " We must go back to Paris , " Peter was urging . " I shall work there . We will live simply and turn in everything to ...
... knew , so she reflected , what that was . Rose had been between them . But she listened with an attentive gravity . " We must go back to Paris , " Peter was urging . " I shall work there . We will live simply and turn in everything to ...
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... knew what was coming and her color deepened . Again Rose had stepped between them , and Electra felt herself back in their old atmosphere of con- straint . " I have inherited it from Tom , " she rejoined . " You ignore his wife ...
... knew what was coming and her color deepened . Again Rose had stepped between them , and Electra felt herself back in their old atmosphere of con- straint . " I have inherited it from Tom , " she rejoined . " You ignore his wife ...
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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...