Littell's Living Age, Volume 23Living Age Company Incorporated, 1849 |
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... never think so highly of a woman the children with their bread and milk , distributed as when she contributes to the comfort of others ; the steaming cups to her elder brother and sister ,. and how can she contribute , to the comfort of ...
... never think so highly of a woman the children with their bread and milk , distributed as when she contributes to the comfort of others ; the steaming cups to her elder brother and sister ,. and how can she contribute , to the comfort of ...
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... never clean , and shoe - strings understand her ; for , with an original and striking never tied . They got on very well at the day - character , keen thoughts and decided opinions , she school , thought it great fun to call their ...
... never clean , and shoe - strings understand her ; for , with an original and striking never tied . They got on very well at the day - character , keen thoughts and decided opinions , she school , thought it great fun to call their ...
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... never clean , and shoe - strings understand her ; for , with an original and striking never tied . They got on very well at the day - character , keen thoughts and decided opinions , she school , thought it great fun to call their ...
... never clean , and shoe - strings understand her ; for , with an original and striking never tied . They got on very well at the day - character , keen thoughts and decided opinions , she school , thought it great fun to call their ...
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... never taken the trouble to know . In person he was gentlemanlike and pleasing , without being handsome ; but he was afflicted with lameness , the consequence of a fall from his horse in college days . He assumed complete indifference to ...
... never taken the trouble to know . In person he was gentlemanlike and pleasing , without being handsome ; but he was afflicted with lameness , the consequence of a fall from his horse in college days . He assumed complete indifference to ...
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... never discovered . And the wedding came and passed - a common- place wedding enough . The bride , of course , had never looked so pretty , and the bridegroom be- haved admirably . I never yet heard of a wedding at which it was not ...
... never discovered . And the wedding came and passed - a common- place wedding enough . The bride , of course , had never looked so pretty , and the bridegroom be- haved admirably . I never yet heard of a wedding at which it was not ...
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Page 373 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 400 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 395 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 373 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 401 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Page 380 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 401 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 141 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 380 - 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 400 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...