The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8Atlantic Monthly Company, 1861 |
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... hand of an art- ist . Mr. Bierstadt has given it to us very well . Rather an imbecile old gentleman , one would say ... hand . See the shop - boys with their bundles , the young fellow with a lighted cigar in his hand , as you see by the ...
... hand of an art- ist . Mr. Bierstadt has given it to us very well . Rather an imbecile old gentleman , one would say ... hand . See the shop - boys with their bundles , the young fellow with a lighted cigar in his hand , as you see by the ...
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... hand , and every crinkle of the vermiculated stone - work . What a curious pleasure it is to puzzle out the inscriptions on the monuments in the background ! —for the beauty of your photograph is , that you may work out minute details ...
... hand , and every crinkle of the vermiculated stone - work . What a curious pleasure it is to puzzle out the inscriptions on the monuments in the background ! —for the beauty of your photograph is , that you may work out minute details ...
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... hand , saying , " Miss Emmons is busy . She can't well leave her work . Did you want some sewin ' done ? " 66 " No , " said I ; " I wish to speak with her . It's on private and particular busi- ness . " Well , " she answered with some ...
... hand , saying , " Miss Emmons is busy . She can't well leave her work . Did you want some sewin ' done ? " 66 " No , " said I ; " I wish to speak with her . It's on private and particular busi- ness . " Well , " she answered with some ...
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... hand , which lay cold and passive in mine , so much like a dead hand that it required a strong effort in me to repress a ner- vous shudder , I said , " Farewell , Ra- chel Emmons , and remember that they who seek peace in the right ...
... hand , which lay cold and passive in mine , so much like a dead hand that it required a strong effort in me to repress a ner- vous shudder , I said , " Farewell , Ra- chel Emmons , and remember that they who seek peace in the right ...
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... hand- somely , or they will fail to do so . If they fail to do it , they are the derision of the world forever , since no one ever spares a beaten bully , —and thenceforward their social system must go down of itself . If , on the other ...
... hand- somely , or they will fail to do so . If they fail to do it , they are the derision of the world forever , since no one ever spares a beaten bully , —and thenceforward their social system must go down of itself . If , on the other ...
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Page 181 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 83 - I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Page 225 - He giveth His beloved, sleep." For me, my heart that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose Who giveth His beloved, sleep. And friends, dear friends, when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And round my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, " Not a tear must o'er her fall ! He giveth His beloved, sleep.
Page 207 - And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own...
Page 131 - That king James II, having endeavored to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is vacant." Also: "That it hath been found by experience to be inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish prince.
Page 47 - To interrupt, sidelong he works his way. As when a ship by skilful steersman wrought Nigh river's mouth or foreland, where the wind Veers oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her sail ; So varied he, and of his tortuous train Curl'd many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve, To lure her eye...
Page 9 - At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Page 346 - were so much exhausted with fatigue that they were obliged to lie down for rest on the ground, their tongues hanging out of their mouths, like those of dogs after a chase.
Page 198 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...
Page 181 - By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on— it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one, — and here he lies.