Littell's Living Age, Volume 142Living Age Company Incorporated, 1879 |
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... taken up her knitting , and sat calmly meditating over her domestic plans for the day . The good lady was so used to letters coming from professional friends of the Dryasdust species , letters full of quotations to be verified , scraps ...
... taken up her knitting , and sat calmly meditating over her domestic plans for the day . The good lady was so used to letters coming from professional friends of the Dryasdust species , letters full of quotations to be verified , scraps ...
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... taken her place in one of the quaint merry - go - rounds , where , mounted on rude representations of lions , tigers , elephants , and crocodiles , the peasants gyrated round and round , to the strains of a noisy band . No place was ...
... taken her place in one of the quaint merry - go - rounds , where , mounted on rude representations of lions , tigers , elephants , and crocodiles , the peasants gyrated round and round , to the strains of a noisy band . No place was ...
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... taken refuge . They were in extreme the town hall , but the excitement was so with shingle . Good foundations even were wanting ; for. and lessen the danger that threatened Szegedin . This cutting , about a hundred yards in length ...
... taken refuge . They were in extreme the town hall , but the excitement was so with shingle . Good foundations even were wanting ; for. and lessen the danger that threatened Szegedin . This cutting , about a hundred yards in length ...
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... taken up and clearness of form which it needs all their abode among us and have inaugu the constructive power and deep earnest - rated a system of instruction , which will ness of Bach to surpass in effect , as he gradually , if taken ...
... taken up and clearness of form which it needs all their abode among us and have inaugu the constructive power and deep earnest - rated a system of instruction , which will ness of Bach to surpass in effect , as he gradually , if taken ...
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... taken a liberty ; " pray dismiss that from your mind . I believe my aunt felt that it would be awkward for me to be guardian to these little ones , unless they were near at hand . " He forgot that his whole household would fall to ...
... taken a liberty ; " pray dismiss that from your mind . I believe my aunt felt that it would be awkward for me to be guardian to these little ones , unless they were near at hand . " He forgot that his whole household would fall to ...
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Page 300 - I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils ; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay ; Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Page 302 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Page 170 - Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer ; and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Page 209 - tis heard no more — Oh ! lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes thee now? Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air...
Page 302 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still...
Page 171 - And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Page 150 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand; This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 302 - Leave to the Nightingale her shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with rapture more divine ; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home ! WORDSWORTH.
Page 11 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 265 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another.