American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 46Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1855 - Periodicals |
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... come up to spend another Saturday at the house , determined that she should help him to the opinion and feeling which he ought to have in regard to the developing family affairs . When Louise came , it happened that his sisters had gone ...
... come up to spend another Saturday at the house , determined that she should help him to the opinion and feeling which he ought to have in regard to the developing family affairs . When Louise came , it happened that his sisters had gone ...
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... comes to me in a larger and better form than it does now , as I suppose it will . More happiness and more vexation ... come to some certain opinions on the subject . ' The boy entered into her spirit , caught her tone , and replied ...
... comes to me in a larger and better form than it does now , as I suppose it will . More happiness and more vexation ... come to some certain opinions on the subject . ' The boy entered into her spirit , caught her tone , and replied ...
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... come again to occupy the boxes , or perchance old hats , which were put up for them , and in them build their nests , and there they live rent - free yet not exactly so , for they pay us with their notes . Sometimes these little people ...
... come again to occupy the boxes , or perchance old hats , which were put up for them , and in them build their nests , and there they live rent - free yet not exactly so , for they pay us with their notes . Sometimes these little people ...
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... comes to our very doors . He hops along the piazza , gathering crumbs of comfort ' and of bread , and knows that not a soul within the house , not even that ' unfeeling school- boy , ' would harm a feather of his tail . He keeps a ...
... comes to our very doors . He hops along the piazza , gathering crumbs of comfort ' and of bread , and knows that not a soul within the house , not even that ' unfeeling school- boy , ' would harm a feather of his tail . He keeps a ...
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... come and help pull up a field of corn , just beginning to put forth its tender blades . All these and more come flocking ... comes , he devotes himself to its destruction with a perfect ruthless- ness , and fills his own crop with the ...
... come and help pull up a field of corn , just beginning to put forth its tender blades . All these and more come flocking ... comes , he devotes himself to its destruction with a perfect ruthless- ness , and fills his own crop with the ...
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Page 25 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Page 626 - Ye who love a nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people, That like voices from afar off Call to us to pause and listen, Speak in tones so plain and childlike, Scarcely can the ear distinguish Whether they are sung or spoken...
Page 627 - Hiawatha!" And the rabbit from his pathway Leaped aside, and at a distance Sat erect upon his haunches, Half in fear and half in frolic, Saying to the little hunter, "Do not shoot me, Hiawatha!" But he heeded not, nor heard them, For his thoughts were with the red deer^ On their tracks his eyes were fastened, Leading downward to the river, To the ford across the river, And as one in slumber walked he.
Page 627 - There he waited till the deer came, Till he saw two antlers lifted, Saw two eyes look from the thicket, Saw two nostrils point to windward, And a deer came down the pathway, Flecked with leafy light and shadow.
Page 625 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 530 - Some might lament that I were cold, As I when this sweet day is gone, Which my lost heart, too soon grown old, Insults with this untimely moan ; They might lament — for I am one Whom men love not — and yet regret, Unlike this day, which, when the sun Shall on its stainless glory set, Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy, in memory yet ODE TO THE WEST WIND.
Page 398 - Ye are furrowed all o'er; Strength of my youth, All your vigor is gone; Thoughts of my youth, Your gay visions are flown.
Page 112 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 263 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.
Page 20 - We resolve to have nothing more to do with it ; for "there is a point beyond which forbearance ceases to be a virtue," and we conceive that point to be thirty-two degrees above zero 4 at the very least.