American Illustrated Magazine, Volume 8Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... appearing abrupt- ly from the group of foot - hills that bathe their toes in the surf , and sitting like a Monarch of Mountains hoary and im- pressive , where it can overlook the ocean as well as the land . There is no grander spectacle ...
... appearing abrupt- ly from the group of foot - hills that bathe their toes in the surf , and sitting like a Monarch of Mountains hoary and im- pressive , where it can overlook the ocean as well as the land . There is no grander spectacle ...
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... appeared at the city gate and were allowed to enter . Without firing a gun the Imperial guards were surprised , dis- armed and made prisoners , and the way was thus opened for the Republican troops to pour in and occupy the city . Lopez ...
... appeared at the city gate and were allowed to enter . Without firing a gun the Imperial guards were surprised , dis- armed and made prisoners , and the way was thus opened for the Republican troops to pour in and occupy the city . Lopez ...
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... appeared and received the money in person . I myself had no conversation with her , but I be- lieve she said her son was seriously ill with a fever . Several of the clerks called at Etherege's house , but I don't think any of them ...
... appeared and received the money in person . I myself had no conversation with her , but I be- lieve she said her son was seriously ill with a fever . Several of the clerks called at Etherege's house , but I don't think any of them ...
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... appeared quite possible to Olivia that she might raise them any minute , and show them glittering with most inhospitable beams . It was evident that the woman did not like her boldness in coming thither , but also that she had motives ...
... appeared quite possible to Olivia that she might raise them any minute , and show them glittering with most inhospitable beams . It was evident that the woman did not like her boldness in coming thither , but also that she had motives ...
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... appeared purposely to emphasize that last iterated sentence . He spoke in a low voice - almost too low for his mother , if she had chosen the part of eavesdropper , to have heard him . Speaking doubtless fatigued him , and at times a ...
... appeared purposely to emphasize that last iterated sentence . He spoke in a low voice - almost too low for his mother , if she had chosen the part of eavesdropper , to have heard him . Speaking doubtless fatigued him , and at times a ...
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Page 482 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 531 - The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study.
Page 532 - Not what man sees, but what God sees — the Ideas of Plato, seeds of creation lying burningly on the Divine Hand — it is toward these that he struggles. Not with the combination of humanity in action, but with the primal elements of humanity he has to do; and he digs where he stands, — preferring to seek them in his own soul as the nearest reflex of that absolute Mind, according to the intuitions of which he desires to perceive and speak.
Page 421 - Ackland, a lady of the first distinction of family, rank, and personal virtues, is under such concern on account of Major Ackland, her husband, wounded and a prisoner in your hands, that I cannot refuse her request to commit her to your protection. Whatever general impropriety there may be in persons...
Page 503 - And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness : for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Page 479 - THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright.
Page 481 - Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done...
Page 482 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 705 - I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Page 479 - Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope...