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... The Storm , The Twilight Hour , The Worn Pen , To a Little Boy , To Eliza , Το Washington at the grave of De Kalb , 8 , 60 36 335 360 368 54 203 129 372 278 267 158 THE YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE . VOL . II . OCTOBER iv INDEX . Stanzas,
... The Storm , The Twilight Hour , The Worn Pen , To a Little Boy , To Eliza , Το Washington at the grave of De Kalb , 8 , 60 36 335 360 368 54 203 129 372 278 267 158 THE YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE . VOL . II . OCTOBER iv INDEX . Stanzas,
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... hours ago . " " Choose for yourself , now , " cried the men , as no one else ad- vanced . Henry stepped among them , touching such as he wanted on the shoulder . These , laying aside their blankets , proceeded to the side of Williams ...
... hours ago . " " Choose for yourself , now , " cried the men , as no one else ad- vanced . Henry stepped among them , touching such as he wanted on the shoulder . These , laying aside their blankets , proceeded to the side of Williams ...
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... How bright I'll be ! " — When lo ! like childhood's early dreams Of beauty's magic power , She vanished in an hour . R. B. 17 VACATION ADVENTURES . No. I. " An inconsiderable snapper 16 THE DEW - DROP . The Dew-drop-A Fable,
... How bright I'll be ! " — When lo ! like childhood's early dreams Of beauty's magic power , She vanished in an hour . R. B. 17 VACATION ADVENTURES . No. I. " An inconsiderable snapper 16 THE DEW - DROP . The Dew-drop-A Fable,
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... hours good driving brought me to his vicinity , and a little inquiry led me up to his door . As these are sketches I can't stop for trifles ; the reader will therefore imagine just such a house as he chooses . Knocking at a friend's ...
... hours good driving brought me to his vicinity , and a little inquiry led me up to his door . As these are sketches I can't stop for trifles ; the reader will therefore imagine just such a house as he chooses . Knocking at a friend's ...
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... hour with a thought , and paint a character ' such as gods and men don't approve of . ' The pure fountains of English have been more defiled by this man , than by all the writers of the present age put together . This is our opinion ...
... hour with a thought , and paint a character ' such as gods and men don't approve of . ' The pure fountains of English have been more defiled by this man , than by all the writers of the present age put together . This is our opinion ...
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Page 33 - A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically consecrated to this one object, the wearing of Clothes wisely and well : so that as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
Page 120 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Page 311 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since: their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; — not so thou. Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 264 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 123 - Certainly a man has a right to do what he likes with his own, but then every man who does so must make up his mind to certain little penalties.
Page 282 - The passage of the Patowmac through the Blue ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
Page 121 - He took the paper, and I watched, And saw him peep within ; At the first line he read, his face Was all upon the grin. He read the next ; the grin grew broad, And shot from ear to ear ; He read the third ; a chuckling noise I now began to hear. The fourth ; he broke into a roar ; • The fifth ; his waistband split ; The sixth ; he burst five buttons off, And tumbled in a fit. Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can.
Page 282 - But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the fore-ground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous.
Page 121 - They were so queer, so very queer, I laughed as I would die ; Albeit, in the general way, A sober man am I. I called my servant, and he came ; How kind it was of him To mind a slender man like me, He of the mighty limb.
Page 253 - Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!