The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 49Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1857 - American periodicals |
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... Sampson , what's that ? ' C What's what ? ' said Sampson . Hush ! do n't you hear something ? ' I listened , and heard the dull sound of the water - fall , and the melan- choly cry of the whippoorwill , whose note , not distant , broke ...
... Sampson , what's that ? ' C What's what ? ' said Sampson . Hush ! do n't you hear something ? ' I listened , and heard the dull sound of the water - fall , and the melan- choly cry of the whippoorwill , whose note , not distant , broke ...
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... Sampson . He was sitting with his hands upon his knees , and his gray head slightly depressed , and , as I at first thought , in profound sleep ; but in fact the old gentleman was making a count upon his ten fingers . The clock had just ...
... Sampson . He was sitting with his hands upon his knees , and his gray head slightly depressed , and , as I at first thought , in profound sleep ; but in fact the old gentleman was making a count upon his ten fingers . The clock had just ...
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... Sampson , with a broad grin upon his face . Massa , this old woman here has said that every night for the LORD knows ... Sampson and I both laughed at the incident . Whether old Sampson had heard what I heard , I did not know . If he had ...
... Sampson , with a broad grin upon his face . Massa , this old woman here has said that every night for the LORD knows ... Sampson and I both laughed at the incident . Whether old Sampson had heard what I heard , I did not know . If he had ...
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... Sampson waved her into silence . " Then there's the old farm old master's father bought from the Injins , away up in the moun- tain , that must be some three hundred acres ; and there's the piece Mass Richard took up from the State for ...
... Sampson waved her into silence . " Then there's the old farm old master's father bought from the Injins , away up in the moun- tain , that must be some three hundred acres ; and there's the piece Mass Richard took up from the State for ...
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... Sampson , and she can take care of my house and darn my stockings , and cook my little meals for me , and feed the chickens , and fatten the pigs , and do any thing she likes , except run away and leave us both here alone in the woods ...
... Sampson , and she can take care of my house and darn my stockings , and cook my little meals for me , and feed the chickens , and fatten the pigs , and do any thing she likes , except run away and leave us both here alone in the woods ...
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Page 30 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 246 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest, I will go ! and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried : the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 29 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 184 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 550 - ... gossamers That twinkle into green and gold : Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps with all its autumn bowers, And crowded farms and lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main : Calm and deep peace in this wide air, These leaves that redden to the fall; And in my heart, if calm at all, | If any calm, a calm despair : Calm on the seas, and silver sleep, And waves that sway themselves in rest, And dead calm in that noble breast Which heaves but with the heaving deep. XII....
Page 59 - In the world's broad field of battle. In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Page 185 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Page 29 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 323 - ... but little affected by her presence. Jupiter, two hours high, was the herald of the day; the Pleiades just above the horizon shed their sweet influence in the east; Lyra sparkled near the zenith ; Andromeda...