American Illustrated Magazine, Volume 8Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1888 |
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in the mind for years , until , at an un- expected touch , it awakes , bringing with it whole chapters of the past . There are well - authenticated stories in which the dying have been stayed for a moment upon the brink of the dark ...
in the mind for years , until , at an un- expected touch , it awakes , bringing with it whole chapters of the past . There are well - authenticated stories in which the dying have been stayed for a moment upon the brink of the dark ...
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... mind . How materi- ally he could have aided her in the clearer understanding of these perplexing details ! And why had she not remembered him before ? The truth was , she had absolutely for- gotten him for weeks . ' How ungrateful of me ...
... mind . How materi- ally he could have aided her in the clearer understanding of these perplexing details ! And why had she not remembered him before ? The truth was , she had absolutely for- gotten him for weeks . ' How ungrateful of me ...
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... mind is in a very curious state . He lies without speaking , for I " I called to see him , if I could . hope he is well enough to see me . I- " He never sees anybody , " was the in- terruption , hard as a blow . 66 " I am very sorry ...
... mind is in a very curious state . He lies without speaking , for I " I called to see him , if I could . hope he is well enough to see me . I- " He never sees anybody , " was the in- terruption , hard as a blow . 66 " I am very sorry ...
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... mind to do a certain thing , for I had lost all patience , and I suspected that she was deceiving me with false promises . If she did not send for you this very day I had determined to give her a fright - for she loves me , notwith ...
... mind to do a certain thing , for I had lost all patience , and I suspected that she was deceiving me with false promises . If she did not send for you this very day I had determined to give her a fright - for she loves me , notwith ...
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... mind was made up , and I waited my chance . " Your chance ? " " It came almost at once . He said , presently , in a husky voice , which you were too far off to hear , ' Oh , how thirsty I am ! ' . . And then I did not wait any longer ...
... mind was made up , and I waited my chance . " Your chance ? " " It came almost at once . He said , presently , in a husky voice , which you were too far off to hear , ' Oh , how thirsty I am ! ' . . And then I did not wait any longer ...
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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...