Littell's Living Age, Volume 192Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1892 |
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... Poor Gentlewoman of the Last Cen- tury , 180 Manx Humor , SPEAKER . SUNDAY MAGAZINE . The Dukes of Teck , Pris , 272 Birds on their Travels , 376 CHAMBERS ' JOURNAL . LEISURE HOUR . The Colors of the Stars , That Foreign - Office Bag ...
... Poor Gentlewoman of the Last Cen- tury , 180 Manx Humor , SPEAKER . SUNDAY MAGAZINE . The Dukes of Teck , Pris , 272 Birds on their Travels , 376 CHAMBERS ' JOURNAL . LEISURE HOUR . The Colors of the Stars , That Foreign - Office Bag ...
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... Poor , of the Last 673 Century , 99 254 · 259 467 • 600 , 815 638 180 • · 235 • 340 · 352 · 476 690 49 Gosse , Philip , Incidents in the Life of 41 Goethe's Mother , 106 Gardens , 243 Gothic and Saracen Architecture ,. 318 Gravitation ...
... Poor , of the Last 673 Century , 99 254 · 259 467 • 600 , 815 638 180 • · 235 • 340 · 352 · 476 690 49 Gosse , Philip , Incidents in the Life of 41 Goethe's Mother , 106 Gardens , 243 Gothic and Saracen Architecture ,. 318 Gravitation ...
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... poor , white- her daily walk . She is often French or washed buildings with no pretence to English , and she is supposed to benefit architectural beauty . More striking to her charge by conversing in her native the foreigner are the ...
... poor , white- her daily walk . She is often French or washed buildings with no pretence to English , and she is supposed to benefit architectural beauty . More striking to her charge by conversing in her native the foreigner are the ...
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... poor peas- antry . The hospital is under the care of deaconesses , some of whom have been trained at Stuttgard ; and it sends out sorely needed Protestant nurses to Vienna , to Meran , and to other towns . The home for orphans and ...
... poor peas- antry . The hospital is under the care of deaconesses , some of whom have been trained at Stuttgard ; and it sends out sorely needed Protestant nurses to Vienna , to Meran , and to other towns . The home for orphans and ...
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... poor Harms was but a mediocre pianist . It was reserved for Vieth to combine a just appreciation of Schoene- mann's genius with a fine illustrative tal- ent of his own . Naturally , if Harms had possessed such a talent , he would not ...
... poor Harms was but a mediocre pianist . It was reserved for Vieth to combine a just appreciation of Schoene- mann's genius with a fine illustrative tal- ent of his own . Naturally , if Harms had possessed such a talent , he would not ...
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Page 509 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Page 509 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 510 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 509 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend* to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of -dining. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit: Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right, to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold,...
Page 443 - Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Page 345 - For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Page 435 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms.
Page 436 - I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Page 444 - Though the waters thereof rage and swell : and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.
Page 142 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.