Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 110Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1925 - American literature |
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... side street lined with pre- tentious - looking apartment - houses . I did n't mean to squander on supper the twenty - five cents I had recently earned , not if I could help it . I had other plans for that twenty - five cents . But I did ...
... side street lined with pre- tentious - looking apartment - houses . I did n't mean to squander on supper the twenty - five cents I had recently earned , not if I could help it . I had other plans for that twenty - five cents . But I did ...
Page 68
... side of the two friends , first spreading a shawl of Scot- tish plaid against the frigidity of the stone . His eyes sought the distant figure of Rosalba , which flitted un- quietly along the vistas of the garden , exquisitely strange ...
... side of the two friends , first spreading a shawl of Scot- tish plaid against the frigidity of the stone . His eyes sought the distant figure of Rosalba , which flitted un- quietly along the vistas of the garden , exquisitely strange ...
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... side ; when I run to the window , he pulls the covers about his ears ; when I fling the curtains apart to let the light rush in , he faints upon his pillow ; the delicate vibration of the dawn afflicts him like a thunder - stroke . I ...
... side ; when I run to the window , he pulls the covers about his ears ; when I fling the curtains apart to let the light rush in , he faints upon his pillow ; the delicate vibration of the dawn afflicts him like a thunder - stroke . I ...
Page 77
... side by side beneath his hand , and Peter Innocent's musings were made audible as prayer , and in the silence smoke rose like incense from the crumbling cedar logs , ascending through the chimney to the frosty night , and thence perhaps ...
... side by side beneath his hand , and Peter Innocent's musings were made audible as prayer , and in the silence smoke rose like incense from the crumbling cedar logs , ascending through the chimney to the frosty night , and thence perhaps ...
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... side is inferior , but we should not be tricked by any interest in art or in works of art into measuring personal- ity by art power alone . On the other hand , a person with art power may not choose or be able to offer for embodi- ment ...
... side is inferior , but we should not be tricked by any interest in art or in works of art into measuring personal- ity by art power alone . On the other hand , a person with art power may not choose or be able to offer for embodi- ment ...
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Page 338 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 437 - Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man ! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky, The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — There with the glorious General's name, Be it said, in letters both bold and bright, " Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester, twenty miles away!
Page 475 - Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Page 472 - tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Page 471 - But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Page 625 - We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
Page 471 - There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
Page 620 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 696 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 473 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.