The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volumen581861 |
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... person present . You see by this that Mrs. Berdona is slightly fast and brassed . Has been known to ask a young lady if her braids were real , with four indignant aunts and a lover sitting around . Well , one evening in a small party ...
... person present . You see by this that Mrs. Berdona is slightly fast and brassed . Has been known to ask a young lady if her braids were real , with four indignant aunts and a lover sitting around . Well , one evening in a small party ...
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... persons . You say that the World hardens the heart . My dear , you- -err ! Men of the world , belles of society , people who tumble about from Wall - street to Washington and the Tuileries , skimming through every thing that is afloat ...
... persons . You say that the World hardens the heart . My dear , you- -err ! Men of the world , belles of society , people who tumble about from Wall - street to Washington and the Tuileries , skimming through every thing that is afloat ...
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... persons who assume that their individual sufferings give them the right to be very unpleasant , melo- dramatic ... person with whom gratitude was ' a lively sense of benefits to come , ' and to whom every new acquaintance was a ...
... persons who assume that their individual sufferings give them the right to be very unpleasant , melo- dramatic ... person with whom gratitude was ' a lively sense of benefits to come , ' and to whom every new acquaintance was a ...
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... person . Mary was actually confounded as the moments sped on , and she realized that she was actually in the presence of the lover of her youth . Was this the méeting she had so often pictured ? This gentlemanly and graceful individual ...
... person . Mary was actually confounded as the moments sped on , and she realized that she was actually in the presence of the lover of her youth . Was this the méeting she had so often pictured ? This gentlemanly and graceful individual ...
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... person , and at the same time acquaint him with the change that had taken place in her fortunes . Mary had not seen him since he had so abruptly parted from her three months before . She had heard from time to time that he was still ...
... person , and at the same time acquaint him with the change that had taken place in her fortunes . Mary had not seen him since he had so abruptly parted from her three months before . She had heard from time to time that he was still ...
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Página 188 - What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day ? Let me fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger.
Página 282 - Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood, Should bloom, after cycles of struggle and scathe, With a single anemone trembly and rathe; His strength is so tender, his wildness...
Página 254 - And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself.
Página 363 - So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
Página 72 - But where, thought I, is the crew? Their struggle has long been over; they have gone down amidst the roar of the tempest; their bones lie whitening among the caverns of the deep. Silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end.
Página 274 - Knit they the gentle ties which long These sister States were proud to wear, And forged the kindly links so strong For idle hands in sport to tear ? For scornful hands aside to throw ? No, by our fathers...
Página 274 - Not yet the hour is nigh, when they Who deep in Eld's dim twilight sit, Earth's ancient kings, shall rise and say, ' Proud country, welcome to the pit ! So soon art thou, like us, brought low ? ' No, sullen group of shadows, No ! " For now, behold, the arm that gave The victory in our fathers...
Página 345 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 450 - The total white population of the eleven States now comprising the Confederacy is six millions, and therefore, to fill up the ranks of the proposed army, six hundred thousand — about ten per cent of the entire white population — will be required. In any other country than our own such a draft could not be met ; but the Southern States can furnish that number of men, and still not leave the material interests of the country in a suffering condition.
Página 72 - How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother pored over the daily news to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep ? How has expectation darkened into anxiety, anxiety into dread, and dread into despair ! Alas ! not one memento may ever return for love to cherish. All that may ever be known is, that she sailed from her port, ' and was never heard of more !' " The sight of this wreck, as usual, gave rise to many dismal anecdotes.