The Atlantic Monthly, 34. köideAtlantic Monthly Company, 1874 |
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... human ; and besides , they all do things in a set kind of way , and I'm afraid they would n't enter into the spirit of any scheme of instruction that departed very widely from Ollendorff . " He paused , and Mrs. Vervain gave a sketch of ...
... human ; and besides , they all do things in a set kind of way , and I'm afraid they would n't enter into the spirit of any scheme of instruction that departed very widely from Ollendorff . " He paused , and Mrs. Vervain gave a sketch of ...
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... human experiences than this sudden and unaccountable nervous prostration that has sometimes visited an actor after many years of varied success . I sin cerely hope it comes not the second time to any given victim , for there is cruel ...
... human experiences than this sudden and unaccountable nervous prostration that has sometimes visited an actor after many years of varied success . I sin cerely hope it comes not the second time to any given victim , for there is cruel ...
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... human mind abhors a vacuum , and it must be that Katy is to blame . They " hoped it would be a lesson to her to be more careful . " " How could you trust a rascally agent three years without in- quiry ? " cried her lover . " I declare ...
... human mind abhors a vacuum , and it must be that Katy is to blame . They " hoped it would be a lesson to her to be more careful . " " How could you trust a rascally agent three years without in- quiry ? " cried her lover . " I declare ...
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... human ; this is a common frailty in all occupations , especially such as are literary or political . We have an amus- ing instance in a religious poet of the seventeenth century , who had a picture of himself engraved , kneeling before ...
... human ; this is a common frailty in all occupations , especially such as are literary or political . We have an amus- ing instance in a religious poet of the seventeenth century , who had a picture of himself engraved , kneeling before ...
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... human civiliza- tion and moral purity . " The original Jefferson Brick has departed , no doubt , but he has left a family , and a numer- ous one , who have divided his mantle between them . Who is not forced to smile , sometimes , in ...
... human civiliza- tion and moral purity . " The original Jefferson Brick has departed , no doubt , but he has left a family , and a numer- ous one , who have divided his mantle between them . Who is not forced to smile , sometimes , in ...
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Page 83 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Page 584 - You shan't take him away,' I says; ' I'll kill de man dat tetches him !' I says. But my little Henry whisper an' say, ' I gwyne to run away, an' den I work an' buy yo' freedom.' Oh, bless de chile, he always so good! But dey got him — dey got him, de men did ; but I took and tear de clo'es mos' off of 'em an' beat 'em over de head wid my chain; an' dey give it to me, too, but I didn't mine dat.
Page 585 - I don't sleep no mo' dis night. You go 'long,' he says, 'an' leave me by my own se'f.' "Dis was 'bout one o'clock in de mawnin'.
Page 320 - A screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers; nay, the voice of a cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable, which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is filled with omens and prognostics. A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoot up into prodigies.
Page 56 - Thus journals are daily multiplied without increase of knowledge. The tale of the morning paper is told again in the evening, and the narratives of the evening are bought again in the morning.
Page 357 - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Page 617 - CONTENTS : — Defoe's Novels — Richardson's Novels — Pope as a Moralist — Mr. Elwin's Edition of Pope— Some Words about Sir Walter Scott— Nathaniel Hawthorne— Balzac's Novels — De Quincey. HOURS IN A LIBRARY.