The Atlantic Monthly, 6. köideAtlantic Monthly Company, 1860 |
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... feel- ings of former generations , interpreted in actions and incidents that disclose the passions , motives , and ambition of men , and open to us a view of the actual life of our forefathers . When we can con- template the people of a ...
... feel- ings of former generations , interpreted in actions and incidents that disclose the passions , motives , and ambition of men , and open to us a view of the actual life of our forefathers . When we can con- template the people of a ...
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... feel- lings of the world , he is attractively set down as a savage and a tyrant . Thackeray and others find such a verdict artistically suitable to their criticisms or their narratives , ( a French author has written a romantic book ...
... feel- lings of the world , he is attractively set down as a savage and a tyrant . Thackeray and others find such a verdict artistically suitable to their criticisms or their narratives , ( a French author has written a romantic book ...
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... feel his caressing hand . - " You see , Ned , " Mac would say , in a deprecatory tone that amused me vastly , " I really pity the poor little devil , and can't help doing all in my power for him . He's such a soft little ass , confound ...
... feel his caressing hand . - " You see , Ned , " Mac would say , in a deprecatory tone that amused me vastly , " I really pity the poor little devil , and can't help doing all in my power for him . He's such a soft little ass , confound ...
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... feel her coming , Swelling their buds with a promise to her , — And the wild bee hears her , around them humming , And booms about with a joyous stir . Oaks , that the bark of a century covers , Feel ye the spell , as ye groan and sigh ...
... feel her coming , Swelling their buds with a promise to her , — And the wild bee hears her , around them humming , And booms about with a joyous stir . Oaks , that the bark of a century covers , Feel ye the spell , as ye groan and sigh ...
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... feel obliged to use the same strict pre- cautions against discovery . John Dix- well , like themselves , was a colonel in the Parliamentary service , a member of the High Court of Justice , and a signer of the death - warrant of the ...
... feel obliged to use the same strict pre- cautions against discovery . John Dix- well , like themselves , was a colonel in the Parliamentary service , a member of the High Court of Justice , and a signer of the death - warrant of the ...
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Page 355 - They climb up into my turret O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I' try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere.
Page 355 - HOUR. BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.
Page 69 - Sit, worthy friends : — my lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth : pray you, keep seat ; The fit is momentary ; upon a...
Page 291 - With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces.
Page 389 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 355 - I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away...
Page 491 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
Page 137 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 355 - I hear in the chamber above me • The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise.
Page 230 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...