Literary News, Volumes 20-21Publication Office, 1899 - American literature |
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... interest is the character- study of the beautiful empress , first introduced as the gracious lady devoted to charities , a pillar of the church , the devoted mother of the Prince Imperial , and then is followed step by step as she ...
... interest is the character- study of the beautiful empress , first introduced as the gracious lady devoted to charities , a pillar of the church , the devoted mother of the Prince Imperial , and then is followed step by step as she ...
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... interest from the social and his- toric points of view as from the literary . It is a story of the South immediately after the war , when the control of affairs was in the hands of the worst products of the slave system , the old ...
... interest from the social and his- toric points of view as from the literary . It is a story of the South immediately after the war , when the control of affairs was in the hands of the worst products of the slave system , the old ...
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... interest of France to ally herself with Ger- do , in an attempt to break the English power , or whether France should make advances to England in order to lay the foundation of a litical interest is secondary and the home - life Franco ...
... interest of France to ally herself with Ger- do , in an attempt to break the English power , or whether France should make advances to England in order to lay the foundation of a litical interest is secondary and the home - life Franco ...
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... interest to women and men . Some of the girl ; Dangerous letter - writing ; Flirts and flirta- tion ; On falling in love ; Engaged to be mar- ried ; Shall our daughters have dowries ?; The ring upon the finger ; Flirting wives ; Mothers ...
... interest to women and men . Some of the girl ; Dangerous letter - writing ; Flirts and flirta- tion ; On falling in love ; Engaged to be mar- ried ; Shall our daughters have dowries ?; The ring upon the finger ; Flirting wives ; Mothers ...
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... Interest . A MORAL PRINCIPLE met a Material Interest on a bridge wide enough for but one . " Down , you base thing ! " thundered the Moral Principle , " and let me pass over you ! " The Material Interest merely looked in the other's ...
... Interest . A MORAL PRINCIPLE met a Material Interest on a bridge wide enough for but one . " Down , you base thing ! " thundered the Moral Principle , " and let me pass over you ! " The Material Interest merely looked in the other's ...
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Page 94 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 16 - THE stranger who would form a correct opinion of the English character must not confine his observations to the metropolis. He must go forth into the country; he must sojourn in villages and hamlets; he must visit castles, villas, farm-houses, cottages; he must wander through parks and gardens; along hedges and green lanes; he must loiter about country churches; attend wakes...
Page 83 - Nations guides Thy blind obedient keels to reach The harbor where thy future rides! The guns that spoke at Lexington Knew not that God was planning then The trumpet word of Jefferson To bugle forth the rights of men. To them that wept and cursed Bull Run, What was it but despair and shame? Who saw behind the cloud the sun? Who knew that God was in the flame?
Page 73 - Next, Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.
Page 24 - That slew the ox, That drank the water, That quenched the fire, That burned the staff, That beat the dog, That bit the cat, That ate the kid, That my father bought For two pieces of money : A kid, a kid.
Page 47 - Bible in Spain; or the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula.
Page 64 - It is immense — there is no other word. I've never read anything that equals it in its deep-sea wonder and mystery, nor do I think that any book before has so completely covered the whole business of whale-fishing, and, at the same time, given such real and new sea pictures. I congratulate you most heartily. It's a new world you've opened the door to.
Page 72 - Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.
Page xvi - The Story of the Railroad. By CY WARMAN, Author of " The Express Messenger," etc. With Maps and many Illustrations by B. West Clinedinst and from photographs. The Story of the Cowboy. By E. HOUGH, Author of " The Singing Mouse Stories,
Page 96 - OLIVER CROMWELL: A HISTORY. Comprising a Narrative of his Life, with Extracts from his Letters and Speeches, and an Account of the Political, Religious, and Military Affairs of England during his Time. By SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH.