Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 110Scribner & Company, 1925 |
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Page 54
... told him I meant to beat it over to Boston and back and then go West . I knew how desperately Frisco was longing for the sea , and I did n't want him to feel that he was responsible for me . Any- way , I was sure I could go it alone ...
... told him I meant to beat it over to Boston and back and then go West . I knew how desperately Frisco was longing for the sea , and I did n't want him to feel that he was responsible for me . Any- way , I was sure I could go it alone ...
Page 70
... told himself in reassurance . Nevertheless his buckled shoes leaped over the ground like the hoofs of a stallion , and he reached the end of the laurel alley three seconds in ad- vance of Rosalba , who had danced into his vision on the ...
... told himself in reassurance . Nevertheless his buckled shoes leaped over the ground like the hoofs of a stallion , and he reached the end of the laurel alley three seconds in ad- vance of Rosalba , who had danced into his vision on the ...
Page 86
... told ; this is not art . It tells a story . It is liter- ary . The plain man looks at a book and asks , “ Is this art ? " and again the answer is , " No. " This , he learns , is This , he learns , is only propaganda . Should the plain ...
... told ; this is not art . It tells a story . It is liter- ary . The plain man looks at a book and asks , “ Is this art ? " and again the answer is , " No. " This , he learns , is This , he learns , is only propaganda . Should the plain ...
Page 87
... told that , to be significant , form must mean nothing that can possibly bear a name or be associated with any other thinkable thing . " To appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life , no ideas and affairs , no ...
... told that , to be significant , form must mean nothing that can possibly bear a name or be associated with any other thinkable thing . " To appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life , no ideas and affairs , no ...
Page 98
... told him that he had no chance in the East ; but that he might make some headway in the West , if he would spend a good deal of time there , hammer Wall Street , and proclaim and emphasize a liberal attitude on railroad and farm ...
... told him that he had no chance in the East ; but that he might make some headway in the West , if he would spend a good deal of time there , hammer Wall Street , and proclaim and emphasize a liberal attitude on railroad and farm ...
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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.