American Illustrated Magazine, Volume 8Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... half around her ; above her head the blackbirds with their jew- eled plumes sail to and fro , and all day long she may hear the soft cadence of the song - sparrow - he who wears the dusky tie beneath his chubby throat and pours forth a ...
... half around her ; above her head the blackbirds with their jew- eled plumes sail to and fro , and all day long she may hear the soft cadence of the song - sparrow - he who wears the dusky tie beneath his chubby throat and pours forth a ...
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... half hour . Mrs. Nelson , the chaperon of the party , beed that they had been waiting for her ; bu . after descending with great dignity to take her place , was somewhat mortified to find that she had still an- other fifteen minutes to ...
... half hour . Mrs. Nelson , the chaperon of the party , beed that they had been waiting for her ; bu . after descending with great dignity to take her place , was somewhat mortified to find that she had still an- other fifteen minutes to ...
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... half unconscious of what she clasped and kissed , except that it represented gain contrasted with an irreparable loss . In that confusion of many sorrows , all lifting up their voices at once , it was the first grief of her life which ...
... half unconscious of what she clasped and kissed , except that it represented gain contrasted with an irreparable loss . In that confusion of many sorrows , all lifting up their voices at once , it was the first grief of her life which ...
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... half revealed In every dell and dingle , And every vision half concealed Where night and morning mingle ; Knows well each grace and marvel caught By moonbeams softly shining , And loves the pictures deftly wrought By shadows ...
... half revealed In every dell and dingle , And every vision half concealed Where night and morning mingle ; Knows well each grace and marvel caught By moonbeams softly shining , And loves the pictures deftly wrought By shadows ...
Page 76
... half of the head was above a line drawn through the eyes , and one - half below ; and see [ measuring with her charcoal ] , that's the way mine is . " And it was the work of some minutes to show the lady that it was a self - evident ...
... half of the head was above a line drawn through the eyes , and one - half below ; and see [ measuring with her charcoal ] , that's the way mine is . " And it was the work of some minutes to show the lady that it was a self - evident ...
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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...