American Illustrated Magazine, Volume 8Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... tell . She was occupying a straight - backed chair in front of the easier one into which Olivia had sunk . She had drooped her eyes and was scan- ning the carpet with them . It appeared quite possible to Olivia that she might raise them ...
... tell . She was occupying a straight - backed chair in front of the easier one into which Olivia had sunk . She had drooped her eyes and was scan- ning the carpet with them . It appeared quite possible to Olivia that she might raise them ...
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... tell me , you are a relation of Mr. Delaplaine's , " Olivia at once an- swered , " I shall be glad to make some amends for my husband's neglect . " She said this , thinking of Adrian , and hoping that she could thus turn a little golden ...
... tell me , you are a relation of Mr. Delaplaine's , " Olivia at once an- swered , " I shall be glad to make some amends for my husband's neglect . " She said this , thinking of Adrian , and hoping that she could thus turn a little golden ...
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... tell me yesterday . He is a clever man , Dr. Wallace ; he saw that I was in earnest , and that no prevarication would avail with me . Mother thinks that because my mind wanders , now and then , while I'm lying here as weak as a little ...
... tell me yesterday . He is a clever man , Dr. Wallace ; he saw that I was in earnest , and that no prevarication would avail with me . Mother thinks that because my mind wanders , now and then , while I'm lying here as weak as a little ...
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... tell him so , and gently bid him to exert himself less , when his repetition of those words , " the next night I went back to Greenacre , " somehow made her forget her designed injunction . " Do you mean that you went there and asked ...
... tell him so , and gently bid him to exert himself less , when his repetition of those words , " the next night I went back to Greenacre , " somehow made her forget her designed injunction . " Do you mean that you went there and asked ...
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... tell me that at about the age of forty- seven my leg would be broken by the kick of a horse , unless I was careful , I rose up and said : " That settles it . You are , in my opin- ion , a fraud ; even a bigger one than I am a fool for ...
... tell me that at about the age of forty- seven my leg would be broken by the kick of a horse , unless I was careful , I rose up and said : " That settles it . You are , in my opin- ion , a fraud ; even a bigger one than I am a fool for ...
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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...