Littell's Living Age, Volume 93Living Age Company Incorporated, 1867 |
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... reason for this is , that as classes rise in importance they have their organs , and acquire the art of self - portraiture . While people are described by their betters a vast deal must remain behind , and what is made prominent ...
... reason for this is , that as classes rise in importance they have their organs , and acquire the art of self - portraiture . While people are described by their betters a vast deal must remain behind , and what is made prominent ...
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... reason for being so . They may have heard themselves called sinners in good company , thus - " Is there anybody here like weeping Mary ? Call to my Jesus and He'll draw nigh ; Oh glory , glory , hallelujah ! Glory be to God who rules on ...
... reason for being so . They may have heard themselves called sinners in good company , thus - " Is there anybody here like weeping Mary ? Call to my Jesus and He'll draw nigh ; Oh glory , glory , hallelujah ! Glory be to God who rules on ...
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... reason for knowing how little that contemptible letter is worth . " Very well ! then all my hopes are at an end ; and you bring my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave ! Oh , what simpletons those people are who complain because they ...
... reason for knowing how little that contemptible letter is worth . " Very well ! then all my hopes are at an end ; and you bring my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave ! Oh , what simpletons those people are who complain because they ...
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... reason for a time , after the discovery and rupture with her husband . But that very fact only shows that she had cause for all the horror with which it appears to have afflicted her . I think , with you , that some evil agency was at ...
... reason for a time , after the discovery and rupture with her husband . But that very fact only shows that she had cause for all the horror with which it appears to have afflicted her . I think , with you , that some evil agency was at ...
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... reason why authoresses enjoy dressing up a heroine who is ill - used . They know the sensation of social martyrdom , and it is a gentle sort of revenge upon the world to publish a novel about an underrated martyr , whose merits are ...
... reason why authoresses enjoy dressing up a heroine who is ill - used . They know the sensation of social martyrdom , and it is a gentle sort of revenge upon the world to publish a novel about an underrated martyr , whose merits are ...
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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.