The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumen20Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1850 |
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... lived in her brother's house . wilderness of first cousins , and uncles and She had a small estate held on lives . Two half - uncles , to whom we are now presented , dropped , and the last , when he knew the and we shall get out of the ...
... lived in her brother's house . wilderness of first cousins , and uncles and She had a small estate held on lives . Two half - uncles , to whom we are now presented , dropped , and the last , when he knew the and we shall get out of the ...
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... lived from the age of two years till six , with many indulgences , but more privations . The privations were such as do a child most mischief . maiden aunt was above all things afraid of his soiling his clothes , and healthy exercise ...
... lived from the age of two years till six , with many indulgences , but more privations . The privations were such as do a child most mischief . maiden aunt was above all things afraid of his soiling his clothes , and healthy exercise ...
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... lived happily and usefully . For the management of a school he was wholly unfit ; he was about fifty , had lost his first wife , and was now married to a drunken , slatternly servant - maid . Boys and servants were allowed to do very ...
... lived happily and usefully . For the management of a school he was wholly unfit ; he was about fifty , had lost his first wife , and was now married to a drunken , slatternly servant - maid . Boys and servants were allowed to do very ...
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... lived . The best kitchen is an apartment that belongs to other days , and is now no longer to be seen , except in houses which , having re- mained unaltered for the last half centry , are in- habited by persons a degree lower in society ...
... lived . The best kitchen is an apartment that belongs to other days , and is now no longer to be seen , except in houses which , having re- mained unaltered for the last half centry , are in- habited by persons a degree lower in society ...
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... lived . The best room was never opened but for company , except now and then on a fine day to be aired and dusted , if dust could be detected there . In the other parlor I was allowed sometimes to read , and she wrote her letters there ...
... lived . The best room was never opened but for company , except now and then on a fine day to be aired and dusted , if dust could be detected there . In the other parlor I was allowed sometimes to read , and she wrote her letters there ...
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Página 326 - The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Página 482 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 191 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Página 327 - The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — 1 Excelsior !' " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue —
Página 329 - Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air; Year after year, her tender steps pursuing, Behold her grown more fair. Thus do we walk with her, and keep unbroken The bond which nature gives, Thinking that our remembrance, though unspoken, May reach her where she lives.
Página 482 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 327 - Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent Is deep and wide!" And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior ! "O stay," the maiden said, "and rest Thy weary head upon this breast!
Página 328 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more...
Página 328 - And with them the being beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine ; And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Página 184 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.