Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 Seiten |
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... means the only advantage which the former possess . Though not ranked so high in the critic's scale , their merits and beauties and power of pleas- ing are much more level to the common apprehension , and more likely to be generally ...
... means the only advantage which the former possess . Though not ranked so high in the critic's scale , their merits and beauties and power of pleas- ing are much more level to the common apprehension , and more likely to be generally ...
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... means to be despised , and very useful on fitting oc- casions . Who does not feel a certain admiration of Braddock's two cooks , commemorated by Mr. Irving , " who could make an excellent ragout out of a pair of boots , had they but ...
... means to be despised , and very useful on fitting oc- casions . Who does not feel a certain admiration of Braddock's two cooks , commemorated by Mr. Irving , " who could make an excellent ragout out of a pair of boots , had they but ...
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... means of the " old chivalrous spirit of the De Wessyngtons ' , " that " passion for arms " which made Washington , in spite of the remonstrances of his mother , anxious to join in Braddock's expedition . In Wash- ington's younger days ...
... means of the " old chivalrous spirit of the De Wessyngtons ' , " that " passion for arms " which made Washington , in spite of the remonstrances of his mother , anxious to join in Braddock's expedition . In Wash- ington's younger days ...
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... means , a mere collector of facts . He combines a keen perception of principles with a wonderful memory for events . Hence , his comments on the topics of the day form an important element in his ability as a journalist . In the course ...
... means , a mere collector of facts . He combines a keen perception of principles with a wonderful memory for events . Hence , his comments on the topics of the day form an important element in his ability as a journalist . In the course ...
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... mean wife - as she'd took a fancy for ; if so be she'd ha ' chosen a decent young feller ; though , even in that case , I should ha ' rather she'd ha ' had Joab ; well - no - but - well - I de- clare , " added the Colonel , after a ...
... mean wife - as she'd took a fancy for ; if so be she'd ha ' chosen a decent young feller ; though , even in that case , I should ha ' rather she'd ha ' had Joab ; well - no - but - well - I de- clare , " added the Colonel , after a ...
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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...