Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 116Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1928 - American literature |
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Page 56
... less if she let the conversation drift with the tide of his mood in a restful ebb and flow of talk . Some- times there were long silences be- tween them , when she would pick up a puzzle , and old Mr. Seaton would drop off into a short ...
... less if she let the conversation drift with the tide of his mood in a restful ebb and flow of talk . Some- times there were long silences be- tween them , when she would pick up a puzzle , and old Mr. Seaton would drop off into a short ...
Page 69
... less " amenable " to the wishes of the majority than were the city delegations in the Republican Con- vention , which has its Philadelphia as the Democratic has its Tammany , which has its Thompson as the Democratic has its Brennan ...
... less " amenable " to the wishes of the majority than were the city delegations in the Republican Con- vention , which has its Philadelphia as the Democratic has its Tammany , which has its Thompson as the Democratic has its Brennan ...
Page 82
... less spirit will ever produce anything great , there is much doubt . Great work is not often done by passionless men . Even great ironists are not un- emotional . But Baltimore city is moved to the depths by one thing only , to wit ...
... less spirit will ever produce anything great , there is much doubt . Great work is not often done by passionless men . Even great ironists are not un- emotional . But Baltimore city is moved to the depths by one thing only , to wit ...
Page 112
... less chain of causation , this perpetual round of the eternal wheel of birth , death , and all these recurring changes , that the Hindus ( and also the Buddhists ) seek liberation . For all this is Nature . This is not God . The ...
... less chain of causation , this perpetual round of the eternal wheel of birth , death , and all these recurring changes , that the Hindus ( and also the Buddhists ) seek liberation . For all this is Nature . This is not God . The ...
Page 82
... less . She has serenity , and in America in 1928 that is a pearl of great price . Baltimore is full of excited monu- ments - generals brandishing weap- ons , poets singing lustily , soldiers dying uncomfortably , civic digni- taries ...
... less . She has serenity , and in America in 1928 that is a pearl of great price . Baltimore is full of excited monu- ments - generals brandishing weap- ons , poets singing lustily , soldiers dying uncomfortably , civic digni- taries ...
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