The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volumen581861 |
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... reached — the struggle o'er . For Liberty's pure flame , Shrined in a crystal name , Such peaceful triumphs to his country brings ; Wins love that discords heal , From brothers steadfast zeal , And fleets and armies from apostate kings ...
... reached — the struggle o'er . For Liberty's pure flame , Shrined in a crystal name , Such peaceful triumphs to his country brings ; Wins love that discords heal , From brothers steadfast zeal , And fleets and armies from apostate kings ...
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... reaching to her feet , that none suspected that she was not clad in a domino ; and she appeared on the whole to be the most modest person present . You see by this that Mrs. Berdona is slightly fast and brassed . Has been known to ask a ...
... reaching to her feet , that none suspected that she was not clad in a domino ; and she appeared on the whole to be the most modest person present . You see by this that Mrs. Berdona is slightly fast and brassed . Has been known to ask a ...
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... reached his little shop , where he found Bully with his head immersed in a bath of feathers , with all his rosy breast - plumes ruffled about him in sleep , until he looked like a pink poppy on one leg . It was a glorious autumn day ...
... reached his little shop , where he found Bully with his head immersed in a bath of feathers , with all his rosy breast - plumes ruffled about him in sleep , until he looked like a pink poppy on one leg . It was a glorious autumn day ...
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... reached his door he was so much out of breath that he could not for a moment put the key in the lock . In that brief pause he thought he heard a faint , shrill sound . He put his car close to the door , and listened . I will not tell ...
... reached his door he was so much out of breath that he could not for a moment put the key in the lock . In that brief pause he thought he heard a faint , shrill sound . He put his car close to the door , and listened . I will not tell ...
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... reaching his usual halting - places , his feathered companion would run before , and turn round and signify , by cackling , all right , at the resting - place . When he went into the inn for a glass of ale , Gander followed , until he ...
... reaching his usual halting - places , his feathered companion would run before , and turn round and signify , by cackling , all right , at the resting - place . When he went into the inn for a glass of ale , Gander followed , until he ...
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Abolitionists abolitionized asked Beauchamb beautiful Belvidere better brave called Centreville CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Colonel Constantinople dark darky dear dollars door Downer dream Edwin of Deira Emancipation eyes face fear feel fight FREMONT gentleman give grace hand Harley heard heart honor hope hour hundred JACINTA John Bull Kamm knew KNICKERBOCKER labor lady land leave light live look LVIII massa matter meerschaum MILLEDGEVILLE mind morning mother nation nature negro never New-York niggers night North o'er once Ottoman Empire paper passed picul poor present racter reader replied scrybe Sculpin secession seemed slavery slaves soon soul South Southern spirit Staten Island stood strange sure sweet tell thing thought thousand tion Turkey turned whole woman words young Zouaves
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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.