Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 páginas |
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... respect , skillfulness and elaboration in details , so far from making up for it , may only render con- fusion worse confounded , and the failure more conspicuous . This power of group- ing is , indeed , essential to every species of ...
... respect , skillfulness and elaboration in details , so far from making up for it , may only render con- fusion worse confounded , and the failure more conspicuous . This power of group- ing is , indeed , essential to every species of ...
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... respect for him . For it is among the precious gifts of Irving's genius , that he not only " Finds tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , Sermons in stones , " but " good in every thing , " even in those very things which more ...
... respect for him . For it is among the precious gifts of Irving's genius , that he not only " Finds tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , Sermons in stones , " but " good in every thing , " even in those very things which more ...
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... respect , that Mr. Irving has left all others of Wash- ington's biographers , and of those who have undertaken to illustrate his career , very far out of sight . We profess to some acquaintance with this subject , having had occasion to ...
... respect , that Mr. Irving has left all others of Wash- ington's biographers , and of those who have undertaken to illustrate his career , very far out of sight . We profess to some acquaintance with this subject , having had occasion to ...
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... respect for human nature . 66 Ginn , " whispers the young man , " why didn't she - what's her name ? - Mrs. Gilhooley - why didn't she apply for relief to somebody ? Why didn't she go to the City , and represent that she was in want ...
... respect for human nature . 66 Ginn , " whispers the young man , " why didn't she - what's her name ? - Mrs. Gilhooley - why didn't she apply for relief to somebody ? Why didn't she go to the City , and represent that she was in want ...
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... respect , far inferior to the humble log cabin . And then our better houses , close to the highway , erect , stiff , sharp- cornered , full of windows as a lantern , so that we look through them from side to side , and see the clouds ...
... respect , far inferior to the humble log cabin . And then our better houses , close to the highway , erect , stiff , sharp- cornered , full of windows as a lantern , so that we look through them from side to side , and see the clouds ...
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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...