Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 31J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1883 |
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... called the Cornice by the people on the plateau ; and many a bright sky - picture it framed . Now the sun looked through , and now the moon , and now it was the " paved work of a sap- phire " fit for a heavenly vision to stand upon . In ...
... called the Cornice by the people on the plateau ; and many a bright sky - picture it framed . Now the sun looked through , and now the moon , and now it was the " paved work of a sap- phire " fit for a heavenly vision to stand upon . In ...
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... called her attention to bird and cloud and passer - by , to win her thoughts away from grief , if but for an instant . He showed all the little arts of a woman in consoling and distracting , and was as much absorbed and in earnest as ...
... called her attention to bird and cloud and passer - by , to win her thoughts away from grief , if but for an instant . He showed all the little arts of a woman in consoling and distracting , and was as much absorbed and in earnest as ...
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... called herself a young lady . He glanced about as if in search of something , or as if he had not seen the place well before . Then he closed the shutter , returned to the study , and shut the door again , drawing it even and care ...
... called herself a young lady . He glanced about as if in search of something , or as if he had not seen the place well before . Then he closed the shutter , returned to the study , and shut the door again , drawing it even and care ...
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... called and left their cards on board during the drive , and the next morning we returned the call at their quarters in the works . We found them pleasant , companionable fellows , easy and hospi- table . Although it was early in the ...
... called and left their cards on board during the drive , and the next morning we returned the call at their quarters in the works . We found them pleasant , companionable fellows , easy and hospi- table . Although it was early in the ...
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... called " a little dirty comfort : " so the carpet on the cabin floor was taken up , and our comfort increased . May 9. - Lat . 26 ° 39 ′ ; long . 60 ° 46 ' . Thermometer , -air 74 ° , water 75 ° . Ba- rometer , 30.30 . Wind N.E. Fresh ...
... called " a little dirty comfort : " so the carpet on the cabin floor was taken up , and our comfort increased . May 9. - Lat . 26 ° 39 ′ ; long . 60 ° 46 ' . Thermometer , -air 74 ° , water 75 ° . Ba- rometer , 30.30 . Wind N.E. Fresh ...
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Page 333 - So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
Page 332 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 269 - And they, who to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.
Page 122 - Her lover sinks — she sheds no ill-timed tear ; Her chief is slain — she fills his fatal post ; Her fellows flee — she checks their base career ; The foe retires — she heads the sallying host : Who can appease like her a lover's ghost ? Who can avenge so well a leader's fall?
Page 476 - ... simplicity shall not be tortured by art — we will le'arn of Nature how to live she shall be our alchymist, to mingle all the good of life into one salubrious draught.— The gloomy family of care and distrust shall be banished from our dwelling ; guarded by thy kind and tutelar deity — we will sing our choral songs of gratitude, and rejoice to the end of our pilgrimage. Adieu, my L. Return to one who languishes for thy society. L. STERNE.
Page 252 - If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself.
Page 333 - And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken ; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink ? Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded *Luke, chap. xvii, 1. him ? I trow not.
Page 383 - As an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard; for the taste of her writers is already corrupted,1 and her language on the decline.
Page 630 - I cannot tell you how wae his little gift made me, as well as glad ; it was the first thing of the kind he ever gave to me in his life. In great matters he is always kind and considerate, but these little attentions, which we women attach so much importance to, he was never in the habit of rendering to any one ; his up-bringing, and the severe turn of mind he has from nature, had alike indisposed him towards them.
Page 229 - Mr. CHAIRMAN. I am not going to take up any more of your time.