American Illustrated Magazine, Volume 8Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... thought he might refer to it on some occasion when Mr. Delaplaine was not in the best of humors - you understand ? " " Yes , " acceded Olivia mechanically . She thought she understood very well indeed . " Now I was more than astonished ...
... thought he might refer to it on some occasion when Mr. Delaplaine was not in the best of humors - you understand ? " " Yes , " acceded Olivia mechanically . She thought she understood very well indeed . " Now I was more than astonished ...
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... thought- " These latter words were broken pain- fully , and uttered with a difficulty that seemed to indicate the approach of death itself . But extreme exhaustion , not death , was now at work with Adrian . In another moment his eyes ...
... thought- " These latter words were broken pain- fully , and uttered with a difficulty that seemed to indicate the approach of death itself . But extreme exhaustion , not death , was now at work with Adrian . In another moment his eyes ...
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... thought I was , as people did not usually wear their best when taking long journeys . " What do you do for a livin ' ? " " Just at present I speculate in oil . " " What do you mean by speculate ? " " Buy when it's cheap and sell when ...
... thought I was , as people did not usually wear their best when taking long journeys . " What do you do for a livin ' ? " " Just at present I speculate in oil . " " What do you mean by speculate ? " " Buy when it's cheap and sell when ...
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... thought drove out all others , even of my horrible predica- ment . We had three hours to wait for the train . After my message had been sent , the operator , a bright young fel- low , took the responsibility of telegraph- ing to the ...
... thought drove out all others , even of my horrible predica- ment . We had three hours to wait for the train . After my message had been sent , the operator , a bright young fel- low , took the responsibility of telegraph- ing to the ...
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... thought , declared that she thought nothing because she knew nothing . The name of the Alinori never passed her lips . " The countess died of grief for her husband , " she said . But , in speaking of the Countess Maria , Giovanni's wife ...
... thought , declared that she thought nothing because she knew nothing . The name of the Alinori never passed her lips . " The countess died of grief for her husband , " she said . But , in speaking of the Countess Maria , Giovanni's wife ...
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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...