American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 46Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1855 - Periodicals |
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... heart asked of the LORD GOD in the garden a help - mate . Are we not content ? then why have we preferred to make wooden troughs to feed from , when it was expected of us that we should fashion costly golden vessels for the altar and ...
... heart asked of the LORD GOD in the garden a help - mate . Are we not content ? then why have we preferred to make wooden troughs to feed from , when it was expected of us that we should fashion costly golden vessels for the altar and ...
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... heart and greater confidence about it ; and because she knew that he would not speak in the same strain with them , she had sought and succeeded in avoidance of his comments on the subject . The reason of this he did not discover , but ...
... heart and greater confidence about it ; and because she knew that he would not speak in the same strain with them , she had sought and succeeded in avoidance of his comments on the subject . The reason of this he did not discover , but ...
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... heart , to get it back again if she happens to lose it , just in the way that all folks who find their lives must first lose them , according to the Scriptures . Think of her contracting a relation for life which don't call one of the ...
... heart , to get it back again if she happens to lose it , just in the way that all folks who find their lives must first lose them , according to the Scriptures . Think of her contracting a relation for life which don't call one of the ...
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... heart is blood - red . ' Then Louise , to be rid of the subject , would have laughed off his seriousness . ' It would be a city of maiden ladies , Everett , if you were allowed full sway . ' But his earnestness deepened . ' No , there ...
... heart is blood - red . ' Then Louise , to be rid of the subject , would have laughed off his seriousness . ' It would be a city of maiden ladies , Everett , if you were allowed full sway . ' But his earnestness deepened . ' No , there ...
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... heart knew what it was about when it asked her companionship and sympathy and aid . Do you think yet that I have judged harshly ? ' ' No matter what I think , Everett . I credit your sincerity , and that's enough . Probably when I ...
... heart knew what it was about when it asked her companionship and sympathy and aid . Do you think yet that I have judged harshly ? ' ' No matter what I think , Everett . I credit your sincerity , and that's enough . Probably when I ...
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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.