American Illustrated Magazine, Volume 8Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... voice and with softly spark- ling eyes . They perceptibly softened Mrs. Etherege , who gazed long and ear- nestly at her companion , and then said : " Adrian's mind is in a very curious state . He lies without speaking , for I " I ...
... voice and with softly spark- ling eyes . They perceptibly softened Mrs. Etherege , who gazed long and ear- nestly at her companion , and then said : " Adrian's mind is in a very curious state . He lies without speaking , for I " I ...
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... voice full of the tenderest solicitude : 66 " I had no idea until yesterday that you were ill . " " No ? " he responded . His eyes dwelt upon hers as though some fascination compelled the searching intensity of their survey . " I wanted ...
... voice full of the tenderest solicitude : 66 " I had no idea until yesterday that you were ill . " " No ? " he responded . His eyes dwelt upon hers as though some fascination compelled the searching intensity of their survey . " I wanted ...
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... voice , which you were too far off to hear , ' Oh , how thirsty I am ! ' . . And then I did not wait any longer . I went into the dark room , softly , on tiptoe . He did not see me enter . I glided up toward the head of the bed , too ...
... voice , which you were too far off to hear , ' Oh , how thirsty I am ! ' . . And then I did not wait any longer . I went into the dark room , softly , on tiptoe . He did not see me enter . I glided up toward the head of the bed , too ...
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... voice I spoke in startled me ; it was very faint , but it was so shrewd a copy of just the way you would have spoken those two words . He put out his hand in the gloom , and I gave him the glass . I heard him begin to drink , with the ...
... voice I spoke in startled me ; it was very faint , but it was so shrewd a copy of just the way you would have spoken those two words . He put out his hand in the gloom , and I gave him the glass . I heard him begin to drink , with the ...
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... Voice , " which remains a classic country . A medical college in Chicago on the subject . He married Miss Ann bears his name at the present day . It Ridgeway , who was a fashionable Phil- is only eighteen months since the Med- adelphia ...
... Voice , " which remains a classic country . A medical college in Chicago on the subject . He married Miss Ann bears his name at the present day . It Ridgeway , who was a fashionable Phil- is only eighteen months since the Med- adelphia ...
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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...