Littell's Living Age, Volume 71Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1861 |
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... French hearts ! Four An ugly twinge of recollection . days after , the savage fishwomen are storm- ing the splendid palace . They are in the salons , the gardens , everywhere ! And then followed the hot , dusty , weary procession to ...
... French hearts ! Four An ugly twinge of recollection . days after , the savage fishwomen are storm- ing the splendid palace . They are in the salons , the gardens , everywhere ! And then followed the hot , dusty , weary procession to ...
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... French comedy . They are playing a piece with a strangely significant title , Unforeseen Events and from the front of this box the pretty child of six years looks down and laughs and makes his remarks . No doubt the burr and mur - woman ...
... French comedy . They are playing a piece with a strangely significant title , Unforeseen Events and from the front of this box the pretty child of six years looks down and laughs and makes his remarks . No doubt the burr and mur - woman ...
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... French astronomer believes that this is the celebrated Comet of Charles V. , which ap- peared in March , 1556 , and caused the retire- ment of that monarch , and the return of which has for the last few years been looked for ; but Mr ...
... French astronomer believes that this is the celebrated Comet of Charles V. , which ap- peared in March , 1556 , and caused the retire- ment of that monarch , and the return of which has for the last few years been looked for ; but Mr ...
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... French houses , and rest their limbs on seats that and English by a chasm which cannot be are as comfortable as they are cheap . Many of these amusements are intensely slow to At first we do not understand what is English people . Let ...
... French houses , and rest their limbs on seats that and English by a chasm which cannot be are as comfortable as they are cheap . Many of these amusements are intensely slow to At first we do not understand what is English people . Let ...
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... French audience to sit through five acts of a play without any incidents . What takes the place of incidents is the one thing that to the spectators of Western Europe is most utterly repulsive . The substitute is a suc- cession of ...
... French audience to sit through five acts of a play without any incidents . What takes the place of incidents is the one thing that to the spectators of Western Europe is most utterly repulsive . The substitute is a suc- cession of ...
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Page 223 - Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't; examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender Prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, 104 Even for an egg-shell.
Page 235 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue) A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page 463 - He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely. He doth bear His part, while the One Spirit's plastic stress...
Page 119 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him ; and he became a captain over them : and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 119 - LORD is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. 9 O fear the LORD, ye that are his saints: for they that fear him lack nothing. 10 The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good. 11 Come, ye children, and hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Page 463 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 92 - Sweetly along the Salem road Bloom of orchard and lilac showed. Little the wicked skipper knew Of the fields so green and the sky so blue.
Page 47 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street : On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined ; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet...
Page 518 - O bless our God, ye people, And make the voice of His praise to be heard : Which holdeth our soul in life, And suffereth not our feet to be moved.
Page 92 - Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead! Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, "God has touched him! why should we!