Littell's Living Age, Volume 264Living Age Company, 1910 |
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... voice of the coun- try in calling upon the man who had proved himself so skilful a ruler at a time of great national trouble and anx- iety , to retain office as President . His fifth term fortunately found the coun- try rescued from its ...
... voice of the coun- try in calling upon the man who had proved himself so skilful a ruler at a time of great national trouble and anx- iety , to retain office as President . His fifth term fortunately found the coun- try rescued from its ...
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... voice and manner which are at once attractive and impressive . While he has shone , perhaps , more as 21 worker than as an orator , his qualities as an administrator are not less re- markable than his statesmanship . No man of his age ...
... voice and manner which are at once attractive and impressive . While he has shone , perhaps , more as 21 worker than as an orator , his qualities as an administrator are not less re- markable than his statesmanship . No man of his age ...
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... voice , for a time . With the coming of Susan the un- rest revived . Its recrudescence was laid at her door with a conscious in- justice that provoked reprisals . She was " in the way . " ( She slept in the hitherto unused attic , took ...
... voice , for a time . With the coming of Susan the un- rest revived . Its recrudescence was laid at her door with a conscious in- justice that provoked reprisals . She was " in the way . " ( She slept in the hitherto unused attic , took ...
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... voice of a singer - the voice of a man , florid and luscious and evil , you could hear the heavy , sensuous jowl above the vast and flowing neck- tie - defiled the purity of the night with words which were received with rounds of ...
... voice of a singer - the voice of a man , florid and luscious and evil , you could hear the heavy , sensuous jowl above the vast and flowing neck- tie - defiled the purity of the night with words which were received with rounds of ...
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... voice . " What , the boy ' Arbart ? He's there . He look precious sick too . It's his first trip . " " I don't see old Joe , " said Mr. Cu- fande as the boat ran gently up to her berth , and two or three of the crew dropped rope fenders ...
... voice . " What , the boy ' Arbart ? He's there . He look precious sick too . It's his first trip . " " I don't see old Joe , " said Mr. Cu- fande as the boat ran gently up to her berth , and two or three of the crew dropped rope fenders ...
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Page 229 - Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Page 407 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 202 - At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a flutter'd bird, came flying from far away: "Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!
Page 610 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, — Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Page 388 - Lamp of Earth ! where'er thou movest, Its dim shapes are clad with brightness, And the souls of whom thou lovest Walk upon the winds with lightness, Till they fail, as I am failing, Dizzy, lost, yet unbewailing ! ASIA.
Page 388 - Life of Life ! thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them ; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.
Page 611 - For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the smooth-faced snubnosed rogue would leap from his counter and till, And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home.
Page 185 - While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 197 - By me o'r thee, as justments to the dead, Forgive, forgive me ; since I did not know Whether thy bones had here their rest, or no. But now 'tis known, behold, behold, I bring Unto thy ghost th...
Page 388 - I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine— have I not kept the vow? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from his voiceless grave ; they have in...