Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 Seiten |
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... turned towards him , and seems to muse on his mystery . He is con- scious of all this . He thinks of it as a picture - himself reading , and the beau- teous head watching him -- the two cen- tral objects in the room . The room is large ...
... turned towards him , and seems to muse on his mystery . He is con- scious of all this . He thinks of it as a picture - himself reading , and the beau- teous head watching him -- the two cen- tral objects in the room . The room is large ...
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... Turning to the smaller quadrupeds , we find the foxes of both hemispheres closely similar . The European badger is ... turned on his back and floated dying under the ice . A hole was soon broken , and the poor musquash pulled out and ...
... Turning to the smaller quadrupeds , we find the foxes of both hemispheres closely similar . The European badger is ... turned on his back and floated dying under the ice . A hole was soon broken , and the poor musquash pulled out and ...
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... turned out of doors as soon as he could fly ( for we were tired of providing for him in the house ) , he refused to leave us at all . He would sit all day in the fork of a pine , and towards sunset would come out and be very sociable ...
... turned out of doors as soon as he could fly ( for we were tired of providing for him in the house ) , he refused to leave us at all . He would sit all day in the fork of a pine , and towards sunset would come out and be very sociable ...
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... turned his eyes slowly from the fire on hearing these words , rose , or , as it appeared to me then , towered to his full proportions , ad- vanced to the corner where I was , and , putting my aunt Deborah calmly aside , said , with a ...
... turned his eyes slowly from the fire on hearing these words , rose , or , as it appeared to me then , towered to his full proportions , ad- vanced to the corner where I was , and , putting my aunt Deborah calmly aside , said , with a ...
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... turned his head just in time to see me fall headlong . In an instant he was on the ground , and I in his arms . “ Who dares maltreat this boy ? " he exclaimed , advancing into the centre of the store , and laying his heavy riding- whip ...
... turned his head just in time to see me fall headlong . In an instant he was on the ground , and I in his arms . “ Who dares maltreat this boy ? " he exclaimed , advancing into the centre of the store , and laying his heavy riding- whip ...
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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...