The New England Magazine, Volumen15New England Magazine Company, 1897 |
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... looked at his own advantage , he is too chiv- alrous for that ! Wives and husbands are sometimes inexplicable curses , sent by a malignant fairy or wicked spirit . " " Ah , ladies , you are darting straws against the wind to try to ...
... looked at his own advantage , he is too chiv- alrous for that ! Wives and husbands are sometimes inexplicable curses , sent by a malignant fairy or wicked spirit . " " Ah , ladies , you are darting straws against the wind to try to ...
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... looked up with a vague expression of distress and utter inability to comprehend that most in- comprehensible of enigmas , a hyster- ical woman . He said soothingly : " I will call on Doctor Sterling at once , my dear , and tell him just ...
... looked up with a vague expression of distress and utter inability to comprehend that most in- comprehensible of enigmas , a hyster- ical woman . He said soothingly : " I will call on Doctor Sterling at once , my dear , and tell him just ...
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... looked at her a moment , and then in the twinkling of an eye drew from his inside pocket a small riding- whip and struck her twice across the shoulders . He With the bound of an enraged animal , she threw herself on him . He receded ...
... looked at her a moment , and then in the twinkling of an eye drew from his inside pocket a small riding- whip and struck her twice across the shoulders . He With the bound of an enraged animal , she threw herself on him . He receded ...
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... looked at it a moment , then at his people , and said sin- cerely : " I don't know - it looks pretty big . " In America the clear , dry air , showing all de- tails and hard out- lines within usual ranges of the eye , robs Our land ...
... looked at it a moment , then at his people , and said sin- cerely : " I don't know - it looks pretty big . " In America the clear , dry air , showing all de- tails and hard out- lines within usual ranges of the eye , robs Our land ...
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... looked appealingly at me . " I know that you agree with me , sir counselor . " " How do you know ? " " I've not forgotten your parting words of good advice to me , although you gave them eight years ago . " " But I have , -pray what ...
... looked appealingly at me . " I know that you agree with me , sir counselor . " " How do you know ? " " I've not forgotten your parting words of good advice to me , although you gave them eight years ago . " " But I have , -pray what ...
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Página 416 - I'd rather rove with Edmund there, Than reign our English queen.' 'If, maiden, thou wouldst wend with me, To leave both tower and town, Thou first must guess what life lead we, That dwell by dale and down. And if thou canst that riddle read, As read full well you may, Then to the greenwood shalt thou speed, As blithe as Queen of May.' Yet sung she, 'Brignall banks are fair, And Greta woods are green; I'd rather rove with Edmund there, Than reign our English queen.
Página 92 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 114 - At Lincoln Cathedral there is a beautiful painted window, which was made by an apprentice out of the pieces of glass which had been rejected by his master. It is so far superior to every other in the church, that, according to the tradition the vanquished artist killed himself from mortification.
Página 216 - And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken ; and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Página 665 - I list no more the tuck of drum, No more the trumpet hear ; But when the beetle sounds his hum, My comrades take the spear.
Página 114 - Sir Walter Scott, in the same manner, has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed out of their gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated.
Página 538 - A lover true, who knew by heart Each joy the mountain dales impart ; It seemed that Nature could not raise A plant in any secret place, In quaking bog, on snowy hill, Beneath the grass that shades the rill, Under the snow, between the rocks, In damp fn-lds known to bird and fox.
Página 293 - I'm with my comrades met, Beneath the greenwood bough, What once we were we all forget, Nor think what we are now. CHORUS. " Yet Brignall banks are fresh and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer queen.
Página 520 - And by your palfrey good, I read you for a ranger sworn To keep the king's greenwood." " A ranger, lady, winds his horn, And 'tis at peep of light; His blast is heard at merry morn, And mine at dead of night.
Página 584 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.