Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 102Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1921 - American literature |
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Page 120
... Italian and a Scan- dinavian prince had wooed her . I spoke of Loti again , and of other writers ' comments upon the attitude of women in Tahiti toward man . The princess sat up and adjusted her hei of ferns . She studied a min- ute ...
... Italian and a Scan- dinavian prince had wooed her . I spoke of Loti again , and of other writers ' comments upon the attitude of women in Tahiti toward man . The princess sat up and adjusted her hei of ferns . She studied a min- ute ...
Page 125
... Italy . The state of São Paulo , for instance , has built up her great coffee industry and her factory production chiefly on Italian immi- gration . § 5 The lines of southern Brazil could scarcely be made a real railroad in the American ...
... Italy . The state of São Paulo , for instance , has built up her great coffee industry and her factory production chiefly on Italian immi- gration . § 5 The lines of southern Brazil could scarcely be made a real railroad in the American ...
Page 141
... Italian thing of glory , with the sea singing almost up to its very bor- ders , and with nothing between it and Spain but this same plunging , foam- ing ocean . For the narrow strip of land that begins at Fire Island ends at Shinnecock ...
... Italian thing of glory , with the sea singing almost up to its very bor- ders , and with nothing between it and Spain but this same plunging , foam- ing ocean . For the narrow strip of land that begins at Fire Island ends at Shinnecock ...
Page 142
... you imagine you are in Italy . A lonely railroad - track follows you on the left ; and that , with a wireless station farther on , are the only reminders of civilization . You are suddenly and gloriously 142 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
... you imagine you are in Italy . A lonely railroad - track follows you on the left ; and that , with a wireless station farther on , are the only reminders of civilization . You are suddenly and gloriously 142 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
Page 149
... Italy for principle's sake while yielding to Japan in sacrifice of principle . Gen- eral Bliss wrote : If it be right for Japan to annex the territory of an Ally , then it cannot be wrong for Italy to retain Fiume taken from the enemy ...
... Italy for principle's sake while yielding to Japan in sacrifice of principle . Gen- eral Bliss wrote : If it be right for Japan to annex the territory of an Ally , then it cannot be wrong for Italy to retain Fiume taken from the enemy ...
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Page 313 - Certain communities formerly belonging to the Turkish Empire have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally recognized subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory until such time as they are able to stand alone.
Page 135 - The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects respectively from the one country to the other for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.
Page 829 - And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Page 60 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 491 - ONCE did She hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea.
Page 256 - O attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Page 827 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round...
Page 124 - Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Page 302 - I am not for criticising hedgerows and black cattle. I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. There are those who for this purpose go to watering-places and carry the metropolis with them. I like more elbow-room and fewer incumbrances.
Page 256 - Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...