The Continental Monthly, Volume 4J.R. Gilmore, 1863 - American periodicals |
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... young people who have been subjected to the best influences , exhibit already the vir- tues of public spirit and faithfulness to a very gratifying degree . The trouble is that they are a minority of the whole . And until the character ...
... young people who have been subjected to the best influences , exhibit already the vir- tues of public spirit and faithfulness to a very gratifying degree . The trouble is that they are a minority of the whole . And until the character ...
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... young men greatly surpass their par- ents in forecast in the laying out of labor , and had got over the miserliness shown by the old people in providing means for carrying it on . He said a few years before he could not have sold a good ...
... young men greatly surpass their par- ents in forecast in the laying out of labor , and had got over the miserliness shown by the old people in providing means for carrying it on . He said a few years before he could not have sold a good ...
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... young demoiselle whom I never had met , I took a position to dance with the rest , And soon I was doing the thing with a zest . For an hour the divinest sensations were mine ; But then my enjoyment commenced to decline . In halting to ...
... young demoiselle whom I never had met , I took a position to dance with the rest , And soon I was doing the thing with a zest . For an hour the divinest sensations were mine ; But then my enjoyment commenced to decline . In halting to ...
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... young damsels to scan , And sighingly say - ' What a love of a man ! ' And then there was one sentimental young man , Got up on a rather irregular plan of features and form , with a wandering air , A collar Byronic , and very long hair ...
... young damsels to scan , And sighingly say - ' What a love of a man ! ' And then there was one sentimental young man , Got up on a rather irregular plan of features and form , with a wandering air , A collar Byronic , and very long hair ...
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... ( Young Sentimentality called them divine " ) . So graceful and pleasing , I could but confess Not one of the galaxy wanted address ( For dress was abundant , nor lacking in taste , Though the waist was reduced , there was plenty of waste ) ...
... ( Young Sentimentality called them divine " ) . So graceful and pleasing , I could but confess Not one of the galaxy wanted address ( For dress was abundant , nor lacking in taste , Though the waist was reduced , there was plenty of waste ) ...
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Page 401 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form : Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 535 - Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 401 - An' naething, now, to big a new ane, O' foggage green ! An' bleak December's winds ensuin', Baith snell and keen ! Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste, An' weary winter comin' fast, An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, 'Till, crash ! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell. That wee bit heap o...
Page 27 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Page 534 - THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, — tliou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summerblooms may be.
Page 535 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' speckled breast, When upward-springing, blithe, to greet The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth : Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce reared above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High sheltering woods and wa's maun shield, But thou beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane.
Page 401 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born. But now will...
Page 534 - Tis the Spring's largess, which she scatters now To rich and poor alike with lavish hand, Though most hearts never understand To take it at God's value, but pass by The offered wealth with unrewarded eye.
Page 486 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 171 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.