Littell's Living Age, 74. köideLiving Age Company Incorporated, 1862 |
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... Miss Rossetti's , German Pepys , ཝཱ ... SHORT ARTICLES . 47 211 162 330 95 123 131. Among the Pines , American Degeneracy , 66 Conservatism , 66 War , Roebuck on the ,. 333 Hunter , General , 380 Handel , George Frederick , 521 615 ...
... Miss Rossetti's , German Pepys , ཝཱ ... SHORT ARTICLES . 47 211 162 330 95 123 131. Among the Pines , American Degeneracy , 66 Conservatism , 66 War , Roebuck on the ,. 333 Hunter , General , 380 Handel , George Frederick , 521 615 ...
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... Miss Violet Fuller sits very busy indeed , sewing . It looks very much as though she were engaged on one of a new set of shirts for the doctor , and bent upon putting the most minute work that ever was seen into his wristbands . Miss ...
... Miss Violet Fuller sits very busy indeed , sewing . It looks very much as though she were engaged on one of a new set of shirts for the doctor , and bent upon putting the most minute work that ever was seen into his wristbands . Miss ...
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... Miss Violet was always distinguished as the " pretty Miss Fuller , " a distinction creditable to the per- ceptions of the Grilling Abbots people , although a decided slight appeared to be conveyed by it to the not trifling attractions of ...
... Miss Violet was always distinguished as the " pretty Miss Fuller , " a distinction creditable to the per- ceptions of the Grilling Abbots people , although a decided slight appeared to be conveyed by it to the not trifling attractions of ...
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... Miss Madge Fuller , with all their defects of scribble and smudge , had merits which would have received unequivocating hom- age in numerous family circles . I have known many worse productions pronounced to be " wonderfully clever " by ...
... Miss Madge Fuller , with all their defects of scribble and smudge , had merits which would have received unequivocating hom- age in numerous family circles . I have known many worse productions pronounced to be " wonderfully clever " by ...
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... Miss Violet , laughing ; " though I dare say if you put on your bonnet and go round to the Laurels , you'll find Tommy Eastwood very happy to play at snow - balls with you as long as you like . " Madge blushes a superb crimson . it sets ...
... Miss Violet , laughing ; " though I dare say if you put on your bonnet and go round to the Laurels , you'll find Tommy Eastwood very happy to play at snow - balls with you as long as you like . " Madge blushes a superb crimson . it sets ...
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Page 359 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Page 359 - Not, that he may not here Taste of the cheer : But as birds drink, and straight lift up their head ; So must he sip, and think Of better drink He may attain to, after he is dead.
Page 356 - Ferrar, and tell him he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom...
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Page 242 - ENOUGH ! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I, You see we're tired, my heart and I.
Page 470 - In traversing that county one will discover numerous farmhouses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted, and dilapidated ; he will observe fields, once fertile, now unfenced, abandoned, and covered with those evil harbingers — fox-tail and broom-sedge ; he will see the moss growing on the mouldering walls of once thrifty villages ; and will find ' one only master grasps the whole domain ' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen...
Page 356 - ... enough* and that was dead. Nothing could seem too rich to clothe the sun, Much less those joys which trample on his head. As flames do work and wind, when they ascend ; So did I weave myself into the sense. But while I bustled, I might hear a friend Whisper, " How wide is all this long pretence! " There is in love a sweetness ready penned : " Copy out only that, and save expense.