The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 37

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Atlantic Monthly Company, 1876
 

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Page 110 - Good night! good night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken thy lamp and gone to bed ; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.
Page 58 - But beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast ; The glory of this sunset heaven Into my soul has passed, — A sense of gladness unconfined To mortal date or clime ; As the soul liveth, it shall live Beyond the years of time. Beside the mystic asphodels Shall bloom the home-born flowers, And new horizons flush and glow With sunset hues of ours.
Page 167 - Punch, brothers, punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare !" A pang shot through me as I said to myself, '
Page 22 - States. 2. No receding by the executive of the United States on the slavery question from the position assumed thereon in the late annual message to Congress, and in preceding documents. 3. No cessation of hostilities short of an end of the war, and the disbanding of all forces hostile to the government.
Page 57 - The drowsy maple-shadows rest Like fingers on its lips. A waif from Carroll's wildest hills, Unstoried and unknown ; The ursine legend of its name Prowls on its banks alone. Yet flowers as fair its slopes adorn As ever Yarrow knew, Or, under rainy Irish skies, By Spenser's Mulla grew...
Page 57 - Touched by a light that hath no name, A glory never sung, Aloft on sky and mountain wall Are God's great pictures hung.
Page 408 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue...
Page 494 - The secret of Dante's power is not far to seek. Whoever can express himself with the full force of unconscious sincerity will be found to have uttered something ideal and universal. Dante intended a didactic poem, but the most picturesque of poets could not escape his genius, and his sermon sings and glows and charms in a manner that surprises more at the fiftieth reading than the first, such variety of freshness is in imagination. There are no doubt in the...
Page 476 - It is very diverting to walk among the camps. They are as different in their form, as the owners are in their dress; and every tent is a portraiture of the temper and taste of the persons, who encamp in it. Some are made of boards, and some of sailcloth. Some partly of one and partly of the other. Again others are made of stone and turf, brick or brush. Some are thrown up in a hurry, others curiously wrought with doors and windows, done with wreaths and withes in the manner of a basket.
Page 168 - He said— he said— he never said anything but Punch, punch, punch in the presence of the passenjare! Oh, leave me, madam! In the name of all that is generous, leave me to my madness, my misery, my despair!— a buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, a pink trip slip for a three-cent fare— endu-rance can no fur-ther go!— PUNCH in the presence of the passenjare!

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