Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 páginas |
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... feet , and he fell ! It had snares of grief to entrap him , and he was a bondsman ! The imagination which had stirred his nature to heroism , by glass- ing , in colossal proportions , the wants and woes of his time , was now the magic ...
... feet , and he fell ! It had snares of grief to entrap him , and he was a bondsman ! The imagination which had stirred his nature to heroism , by glass- ing , in colossal proportions , the wants and woes of his time , was now the magic ...
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... feet pattering about in the darkness , and then he hears them stumble . There is an incoherent sound of other children's voices from a room within , talking and crying blended . Then there is a low moan , and the child begins to cry ...
... feet pattering about in the darkness , and then he hears them stumble . There is an incoherent sound of other children's voices from a room within , talking and crying blended . Then there is a low moan , and the child begins to cry ...
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... feet . " And truly , man is the master of the world . There comes a joyous breeze in free- dom through the air , and sings its merry songs in rush and reed , or plays sport- ively with branch and briar . But see , man stands upon the ...
... feet . " And truly , man is the master of the world . There comes a joyous breeze in free- dom through the air , and sings its merry songs in rush and reed , or plays sport- ively with branch and briar . But see , man stands upon the ...
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... feet by loosely arranged stones . There they live , the most miserable of men upon earth , dark gloom all around them , and deeper gloom yet within their cheerless , un- lighted hovels . If the moor is deeper , ditches are dug to carry ...
... feet by loosely arranged stones . There they live , the most miserable of men upon earth , dark gloom all around them , and deeper gloom yet within their cheerless , un- lighted hovels . If the moor is deeper , ditches are dug to carry ...
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... feet and the skins of animals around their na- ked bodies . Hundreds of brave English horsemen , who sought an honorable death in the battle of Solway , were swallowed up , horse and men , by the insatiable moor . And in years bygone ...
... feet and the skins of animals around their na- ked bodies . Hundreds of brave English horsemen , who sought an honorable death in the battle of Solway , were swallowed up , horse and men , by the insatiable moor . And in years bygone ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 506 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim...
Página 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...
Página 448 - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...