Littell's Living Age, Volume 93Living Age Company Incorporated, 1867 |
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... give to each not only their distinctive faults , but their picturesque characteristics . " The low light gives the colour , " and character is made out of the presence of , or the temptation to , human error , and the degrees in which ...
... give to each not only their distinctive faults , but their picturesque characteristics . " The low light gives the colour , " and character is made out of the presence of , or the temptation to , human error , and the degrees in which ...
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... give him a very fair insight , and that in the first accost of a dozen idle lads at a street corner , he would have that advantage over the curate which acquaintance with his audience gives . From his showing , the youth of his own ...
... give him a very fair insight , and that in the first accost of a dozen idle lads at a street corner , he would have that advantage over the curate which acquaintance with his audience gives . From his showing , the youth of his own ...
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... give your opinion about it . Come , now , you can hardly refuse me such a thing as that . What would you be ready to say yourself ? You know that she is but the daughter of a convict - his illegiti- mate daughter , moreover . So you ...
... give your opinion about it . Come , now , you can hardly refuse me such a thing as that . What would you be ready to say yourself ? You know that she is but the daughter of a convict - his illegiti- mate daughter , moreover . So you ...
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... give him any pleasure . If , before the dreadful mar- riage were a fait accompli , Mr. M'Quantigan could be roused and encouraged to push his fortune with Eva , she might be led , or com- pelled , into something against which even the ...
... give him any pleasure . If , before the dreadful mar- riage were a fait accompli , Mr. M'Quantigan could be roused and encouraged to push his fortune with Eva , she might be led , or com- pelled , into something against which even the ...
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... give it for the asking ) , not to intrude herself upon him in any wise . And , fortified with this assurance , ters . There were only just two for him , and one of them was a bill . The other we will read . It was written in a feminine ...
... give it for the asking ) , not to intrude herself upon him in any wise . And , fortified with this assurance , ters . There were only just two for him , and one of them was a bill . The other we will read . It was written in a feminine ...
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Page 520 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 367 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Page 347 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God .always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Page 347 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in ; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his...
Page 347 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 11 - Amen ; so let it be : Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.
Page 179 - How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests; while canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers! Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain...
Page 346 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 177 - As Sir Launfal made morn through the darksome gate, He was 'ware of a leper, crouched by the same, Who begged with his hand and moaned as he sate ; And a loathing over Sir Launfal came ; The sunshine went out of his soul with a thrill, The flesh 'neath his armor 'gan shrink and crawl...
Page 180 - So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own.