Littell's Living Age, Volumen98Living Age Company Incorporated, 1868 |
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... expression of friendship on the part of his host , and from Lady Laura with a mere touch of the hand . He tried to say a word ; but she was sullen , or , if not , she put on some mood like to sullenness , and said never a word to him ...
... expression of friendship on the part of his host , and from Lady Laura with a mere touch of the hand . He tried to say a word ; but she was sullen , or , if not , she put on some mood like to sullenness , and said never a word to him ...
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... expression , that which seemed most natural to them being , though firm , very sweet and attractive . Her complexion was , I should judge , one of those very sallow ones which look well only by candle - light , so that I probably saw ...
... expression , that which seemed most natural to them being , though firm , very sweet and attractive . Her complexion was , I should judge , one of those very sallow ones which look well only by candle - light , so that I probably saw ...
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... expressions of courtesy on both sides , I left them . " Now , as you know , I am pretty well acquainted with Bohemia in all its tracts , and the old violinist is no new character to me . I understand him thoroughly . It is the old story ...
... expressions of courtesy on both sides , I left them . " Now , as you know , I am pretty well acquainted with Bohemia in all its tracts , and the old violinist is no new character to me . I understand him thoroughly . It is the old story ...
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... expression reminded father - I only remember one . " Maurice - strangely enough - of Tibald ; " And that is and the fancy made him smile . In point of fact , she wanted to find something to say , but could not . Who among those who fre ...
... expression reminded father - I only remember one . " Maurice - strangely enough - of Tibald ; " And that is and the fancy made him smile . In point of fact , she wanted to find something to say , but could not . Who among those who fre ...
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... expression of any but small ideas . Thus those who have large ideas must necessarily give up , as utterly vain , any attempt to talk them . They very soon find that it is utterly impossible . All su- perlatives and conventionally ...
... expression of any but small ideas . Thus those who have large ideas must necessarily give up , as utterly vain , any attempt to talk them . They very soon find that it is utterly impossible . All su- perlatives and conventionally ...
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Página 523 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Página 508 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Página 426 - ... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Página 427 - For though the fig tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines ; The labour of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no meat ; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls : Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Página 514 - We two will rise, and sit, and walk together, Under the roof of blue Ionian weather, And wander in the meadows, or ascend The mossy mountains, where the blue heavens bend With lightest winds, to touch their paramour; Or linger, where the pebble-paven shore, Under the quick, faint kisses of the sea Trembles and sparkles as with ecstasy...
Página 504 - O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces ; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
Página 516 - Athens' children are with hearts endued. When Grecian mothers shall give birth to men, Then may'st thou be restored; but not till then. A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust: and when Can Man its shattered splendour renovate, Recall its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate?
Página 325 - There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox. They make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox and asks what veins you please to have opened.
Página 353 - Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life...
Página 235 - NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.