Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 Seiten |
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... followed the banner of St. Cuthbert to the holy wars . " An ancestor of Washington crusading to Palestine , and fighting under the banner of St. Cuthbert for the Holy Sepulchre , would afford doubt- less a very pretty picture to hang up ...
... followed the banner of St. Cuthbert to the holy wars . " An ancestor of Washington crusading to Palestine , and fighting under the banner of St. Cuthbert for the Holy Sepulchre , would afford doubt- less a very pretty picture to hang up ...
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... followed one general plan , but with an intention to make the minor details constantly varied , or , as if there had been a tendency in nature to develop similar forms in distant lands . This is observed in all forms of life , and also ...
... followed one general plan , but with an intention to make the minor details constantly varied , or , as if there had been a tendency in nature to develop similar forms in distant lands . This is observed in all forms of life , and also ...
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... the ocean , and , looking up , there came out of the dark wall of mist , not more than a half mile from where I stood , the hull of a great strange ship . Other guns followed in quick succession , 1855. ] 45 How I Came to Like Diamonds .
... the ocean , and , looking up , there came out of the dark wall of mist , not more than a half mile from where I stood , the hull of a great strange ship . Other guns followed in quick succession , 1855. ] 45 How I Came to Like Diamonds .
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Selected from Putnam's Magazine. strange ship . Other guns followed in quick succession , and I knew that they were signals of distress . I ran to the light - house in a moment , but before I could reach the door the keeper and all his ...
Selected from Putnam's Magazine. strange ship . Other guns followed in quick succession , and I knew that they were signals of distress . I ran to the light - house in a moment , but before I could reach the door the keeper and all his ...
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... followed by the longest poem in the collection , " Ariadne , " in the form of a masque . This is an admirable Academic performance . The changing emotions of Ariadne's mind , as she re- flects upon her loss , are well depicted ; but ...
... followed by the longest poem in the collection , " Ariadne , " in the form of a masque . This is an admirable Academic performance . The changing emotions of Ariadne's mind , as she re- flects upon her loss , are well depicted ; but ...
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Seite 202 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Seite 167 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Seite 49 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Seite 506 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim...
Seite 524 - Here the free spirit of mankind at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race...
Seite 448 - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Seite 8 - At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.
Seite 249 - Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face.
Seite 319 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Seite 472 - Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason. But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct...