Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 Seiten |
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... tion , he puts the blade to his throat . Supposing he should fail ! He pauses and thinks . After all , it is not safe to trust the chance — he might fail . Therefore , he flings down the instru- ment , and , going to his bedroom ...
... tion , he puts the blade to his throat . Supposing he should fail ! He pauses and thinks . After all , it is not safe to trust the chance — he might fail . Therefore , he flings down the instru- ment , and , going to his bedroom ...
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... tion to his hunched shoulder , which has ceased to propel the arm in the inter- rupted operation of cleaning knives . Mr. Ginn stands with his back to the entrance , poising his clenched fist in a manner peculiarly his own , as if calcu ...
... tion to his hunched shoulder , which has ceased to propel the arm in the inter- rupted operation of cleaning knives . Mr. Ginn stands with his back to the entrance , poising his clenched fist in a manner peculiarly his own , as if calcu ...
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... tion of the greater part of the Cape . There is a " beach " on the west side of Eastham , which we crossed the next summer , half a mile wide , and stretch- ing across the township , containing seventeen hundred acres , on which there ...
... tion of the greater part of the Cape . There is a " beach " on the west side of Eastham , which we crossed the next summer , half a mile wide , and stretch- ing across the township , containing seventeen hundred acres , on which there ...
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... tion , " the urbane old gentleman went on to say . " Shut up ! " shouted his indefatigable persecutor . " If there's one thing dearer to my heart than another , " the venerable sin- ner pathetically observed . " It aint your wife ...
... tion , " the urbane old gentleman went on to say . " Shut up ! " shouted his indefatigable persecutor . " If there's one thing dearer to my heart than another , " the venerable sin- ner pathetically observed . " It aint your wife ...
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... tion . His first successful attempt was the establishment of the New Yorker . This was a new step in the progress of American journalism . The first num- ber of the New Yorker appeared in the spring of 1834. It stole quietly into ...
... tion . His first successful attempt was the establishment of the New Yorker . This was a new step in the progress of American journalism . The first num- ber of the New Yorker appeared in the spring of 1834. It stole quietly into ...
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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...