Scribner's Magazine, 40. köideEdward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan Charles Scribners Sons, 1906 |
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... seemed to be the suffering of the gentleman , the careful student , the heir of sins of the world . Abraham Lincoln , Presi- traditions of learning and breeding , of schol- dent of the United States , journeyed with his alry instincts ...
... seemed to be the suffering of the gentleman , the careful student , the heir of sins of the world . Abraham Lincoln , Presi- traditions of learning and breeding , of schol- dent of the United States , journeyed with his alry instincts ...
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... seemed to him , were to the Bos- tonian a key - board facile to make music , to Lincoln tools to do his labor . He put the idea aside , for it hindered him . As he found the sword fitted to his hand he must fight with it ; it might be ...
... seemed to him , were to the Bos- tonian a key - board facile to make music , to Lincoln tools to do his labor . He put the idea aside , for it hindered him . As he found the sword fitted to his hand he must fight with it ; it might be ...
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... seemed now so hopelessly inadequate . There was the railroad over which we had just travelled plainly marked with step - lad- der ties , leading to the town where I now stood , but how to find the path beside which stood the amiable cow ...
... seemed now so hopelessly inadequate . There was the railroad over which we had just travelled plainly marked with step - lad- der ties , leading to the town where I now stood , but how to find the path beside which stood the amiable cow ...
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... seemed to have been painted only yesterday . Trees stood about the house like guards , forming a screen for the ever - blowing words that I depended most upon and hid herself behind a counter in the farther end of the room . I must have ...
... seemed to have been painted only yesterday . Trees stood about the house like guards , forming a screen for the ever - blowing words that I depended most upon and hid herself behind a counter in the farther end of the room . I must have ...
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... seemed as though a simple , straight spike would be so much more effective . The incurved point and its half - way snag seemed like buttons on the rapier , like efforts to disarm the well- armed knight while leaving him in posses- sion ...
... seemed as though a simple , straight spike would be so much more effective . The incurved point and its half - way snag seemed like buttons on the rapier , like efforts to disarm the well- armed knight while leaving him in posses- sion ...
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Page 411 - Since, with pure and firm affection, Thou on GOD hast set thy love, With the wings of his protection He will shield thee from above.