The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volumen581861 |
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... true pleasure ; a mere preparation of the soil in which flowers are to grow . Sir , poets have compared your like to a great spider , but they did the fly - catcher injustice . I'm not sure that Nature herself does n't indulge in human ...
... true pleasure ; a mere preparation of the soil in which flowers are to grow . Sir , poets have compared your like to a great spider , but they did the fly - catcher injustice . I'm not sure that Nature herself does n't indulge in human ...
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... true that Mary had outgrown her affection for him . ' The tables are turned upon me , ' he exclaimed at last . ' Instead of jilting , I am jilted . I could almost laugh at the whole affair . ' But he did not laugh . On the contrary , he ...
... true that Mary had outgrown her affection for him . ' The tables are turned upon me , ' he exclaimed at last . ' Instead of jilting , I am jilted . I could almost laugh at the whole affair . ' But he did not laugh . On the contrary , he ...
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... true because more real pictures of the future . And thus a serene light deepened in her thoughtful eyes as she unconsciously drew nearer the threshold of a fairer life than any she had yet known . Let us now go back to Mary herself , as ...
... true because more real pictures of the future . And thus a serene light deepened in her thoughtful eyes as she unconsciously drew nearer the threshold of a fairer life than any she had yet known . Let us now go back to Mary herself , as ...
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... true , that there are men who spend their whole lives in Wall - street , and who do nothing else but buy notes . They come in early and go out late . Their time is occupied in making fresh inquiries , and in haggling about the rate per ...
... true , that there are men who spend their whole lives in Wall - street , and who do nothing else but buy notes . They come in early and go out late . Their time is occupied in making fresh inquiries , and in haggling about the rate per ...
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... true dramatic GENIUS is concerned , we may say here , what we can say of no other modern comedian whom we ever saw upon the American stage , that POWER was always fresh and original . There was something electric about his personations ...
... true dramatic GENIUS is concerned , we may say here , what we can say of no other modern comedian whom we ever saw upon the American stage , that POWER was always fresh and original . There was something electric about his personations ...
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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.