The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 106Atlantic Monthly Company, 1910 - American essays |
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... hour or two of final revision to make it con- form more perfectly to her fastidious taste , but few lovers of her work will find any flaw . The two chief characters are thus described in earlier stories : ' I turned , startled in the ...
... hour or two of final revision to make it con- form more perfectly to her fastidious taste , but few lovers of her work will find any flaw . The two chief characters are thus described in earlier stories : ' I turned , startled in the ...
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... hour yet I expect he's made every arrangement , but he said he should n't go up after Esther unless the weather was ... hour by hour . The warm air was full of birds , there was a glow of light on the sea instead of the cold shining of ...
... hour yet I expect he's made every arrangement , but he said he should n't go up after Esther unless the weather was ... hour by hour . The warm air was full of birds , there was a glow of light on the sea instead of the cold shining of ...
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... hour afterward . — At the end of that time her arch enemy , Mari ' Harris , appeared at the side - door with a gingham handkerchief over her head . She was always on hand for the news , and made some formal excuse for her presence ...
... hour afterward . — At the end of that time her arch enemy , Mari ' Harris , appeared at the side - door with a gingham handkerchief over her head . She was always on hand for the news , and made some formal excuse for her presence ...
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... hour , always en- She shook her head , rather vaguely . ' Oh , no , Mr. Todie , ' she returned . " The work was n't ... hours in the small front room of the tenement , while Rosie sewed at a lace collar , and her mother bent over some ...
... hour , always en- She shook her head , rather vaguely . ' Oh , no , Mr. Todie , ' she returned . " The work was n't ... hours in the small front room of the tenement , while Rosie sewed at a lace collar , and her mother bent over some ...
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... hour before the end of the afternoon , he had a bundle under his arm . Three days passed , and nothing was seen of him . Mrs. Curring had not yet secured a domestic . She was in de- spair . The whole house was topsy- turvy . The furnace ...
... hour before the end of the afternoon , he had a bundle under his arm . Three days passed , and nothing was seen of him . Mrs. Curring had not yet secured a domestic . She was in de- spair . The whole house was topsy- turvy . The furnace ...
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Page 126 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye, that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back : you demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Page 276 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 56 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 179 - ... a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Page 92 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 332 - Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 56 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations, upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Page 186 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 182 - Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone; Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known.
Page 92 - O reform it altogether, and let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered; that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.