Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 Seiten |
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... lives and low aims of the men it had unmade - shocking him with the revelation and filling him with misan- thropy and despair . It had , then , to conceal the splendid dream of a heroic possibility , by a confusion of glittering gauds ...
... lives and low aims of the men it had unmade - shocking him with the revelation and filling him with misan- thropy and despair . It had , then , to conceal the splendid dream of a heroic possibility , by a confusion of glittering gauds ...
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... lives down here , " says Mr. Ginn , as they enter the dark lane ; " perhaps he knows about it . ” The child , upon being questioned , does not know . The trio stop for a moment before a wooden tenement , from whose half - open door ...
... lives down here , " says Mr. Ginn , as they enter the dark lane ; " perhaps he knows about it . ” The child , upon being questioned , does not know . The trio stop for a moment before a wooden tenement , from whose half - open door ...
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... live ? " exclaims the appalled listener . Well , a - guess some of ' em didn't live , " answers the caterer , with some- thing like a ghastly smile creeping out on his face . “ A - didn't want to let ye know , " he resumed , fiercely ...
... live ? " exclaims the appalled listener . Well , a - guess some of ' em didn't live , " answers the caterer , with some- thing like a ghastly smile creeping out on his face . “ A - didn't want to let ye know , " he resumed , fiercely ...
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... live in , though poor folks have to ? Say ? Why didn't somebody come an ' see to her , without waitin ' to be asked ? I did . Didn't send up no card , but walked straight in , you know , with her boy under my arm . Say - why didn't you ...
... live in , though poor folks have to ? Say ? Why didn't somebody come an ' see to her , without waitin ' to be asked ? I did . Didn't send up no card , but walked straight in , you know , with her boy under my arm . Say - why didn't you ...
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... lives entirely under water ; only when about to blossom , it rises for awhile into the air , and then sinks for- ever to the bottom , there to be changed into peat . It forms closely - woven , thick layers , filled with sand and snails ...
... lives entirely under water ; only when about to blossom , it rises for awhile into the air , and then sinks for- ever to the bottom , there to be changed into peat . It forms closely - woven , thick layers , filled with sand and snails ...
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Beliebte Passagen
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...