Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 Seiten |
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... Present and Fu- ture , 214 216 AT LAST , 220 WATERING PLACE WORRIES , 233 THE WINDHARP , SALT LAKE AND THE NEW SARATOGA , 260 THE LOVERS , STATISTICS AND SPECULATIONS CON- CERNING THE PACIFIC RAILROAD , 270 THE DAY OWLS OF NORTH AMERICA ...
... Present and Fu- ture , 214 216 AT LAST , 220 WATERING PLACE WORRIES , 233 THE WINDHARP , SALT LAKE AND THE NEW SARATOGA , 260 THE LOVERS , STATISTICS AND SPECULATIONS CON- CERNING THE PACIFIC RAILROAD , 270 THE DAY OWLS OF NORTH AMERICA ...
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... present ; and this , not because we know that any De Wessyngton was with him , but because one might have been . Now all this would have afforded ex- cellent matter for an article in our ma- gazine , and accordingly we have helped ...
... present ; and this , not because we know that any De Wessyngton was with him , but because one might have been . Now all this would have afforded ex- cellent matter for an article in our ma- gazine , and accordingly we have helped ...
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... present , of a selfism of which yours is but the microcosm and pigmy symbol , resulted in him , as in millions like him , making him all he was , and never to rise above that level , but to sink lower and lower forever . You are not ...
... present , of a selfism of which yours is but the microcosm and pigmy symbol , resulted in him , as in millions like him , making him all he was , and never to rise above that level , but to sink lower and lower forever . You are not ...
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... present has nothing more to give him , and the future seems to elude his grasp , he descends into the past , and raises even the spirits of the departed to serve him . Man had exhausted the resources which the vegetable world of our day ...
... present has nothing more to give him , and the future seems to elude his grasp , he descends into the past , and raises even the spirits of the departed to serve him . Man had exhausted the resources which the vegetable world of our day ...
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... presents an extraordinary illustration both of the spirit of the age and the genius of Ameri- can institutions . In ... present article , we do not ap- pear as the eulogist of Horace Greeley . Only to a limited extent do we share his ...
... presents an extraordinary illustration both of the spirit of the age and the genius of Ameri- can institutions . In ... present article , we do not ap- pear as the eulogist of Horace Greeley . Only to a limited extent do we share his ...
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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...