The New England Magazine, Volume 6; Volume 12New England Magazine Company, 1892 |
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... live with these utter strangers ? " " Of course I am , " said Louisa . " Why not try the experi- ment ? It can but fail , as the teaching and sewing and act- ing and writing have . I do house - work at home for love ; why not there for ...
... live with these utter strangers ? " " Of course I am , " said Louisa . " Why not try the experi- ment ? It can but fail , as the teaching and sewing and act- ing and writing have . I do house - work at home for love ; why not there for ...
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... live the highest , purest life , to plant a paradise where no serpent could enter . Mother was unconverted , but true as steel to him , following wherever his vagaries led , hoping that , at last she might , after many wanderings , find ...
... live the highest , purest life , to plant a paradise where no serpent could enter . Mother was unconverted , but true as steel to him , following wherever his vagaries led , hoping that , at last she might , after many wanderings , find ...
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... live long enough I mean to write a book whose characters will be drawn from life . Mrs. ( naming a person present ) shall be prominent as the society leader , and the fidelity of the picture shall leave no one in doubt as to the ...
... live long enough I mean to write a book whose characters will be drawn from life . Mrs. ( naming a person present ) shall be prominent as the society leader , and the fidelity of the picture shall leave no one in doubt as to the ...
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... live for myself , I hold on for others , and shall find time to die some day , I hope . " It Mr. Alcott died on Sunday morning , March 4 , and on Tuesday morning , March 6 , death , " in the likeness of a friend , " came to Louisa . Mr ...
... live for myself , I hold on for others , and shall find time to die some day , I hope . " It Mr. Alcott died on Sunday morning , March 4 , and on Tuesday morning , March 6 , death , " in the likeness of a friend , " came to Louisa . Mr ...
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... live and die at Amster and be damned . " This will answer very well for a general view of this subject as it presented itself to the amiable poeta - aquaticus , but for a more particular description we have only to turn to " The Praise ...
... live and die at Amster and be damned . " This will answer very well for a general view of this subject as it presented itself to the amiable poeta - aquaticus , but for a more particular description we have only to turn to " The Praise ...
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Page 307 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 751 - As ancient is this hostelry As any in the land may be, Built in the old Colonial day, When men lived in a grander way, With ampler hospitality...
Page xiii - Ay! Since the galloping Normans came, England's annals have known her name; And still to the three-hilled rebel town Dear is that ancient name's renown, For many a civic wreath they won, The youthful sire and the gray-haired son.
Page 505 - Puritan anthem, She, the Puritan girl, in the solitude of the forest, Making the humble house and the modest apparel of home-spun Beautiful with her beauty, and rich with the wealth of her being!
Page 131 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Page 674 - In which sad progress, passing along by the rest of the army where his uncle the general was and being thirsty with excess of bleeding, he called for drink, which was presently brought him, but as he was putting the bottle to his mouth, he saw a poor soldier carried along who had eaten his last at die same feast, ghastly casting up his eyes at the bottle.
Page 631 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page xiii - Stately and slow, with thoughtful air, His black cap hiding his whitened hair, Walks the Judge of the great Assize, Samuel Sewall the good and wise. His face with lines of firmness wrought, He wears the look of a man unbought, Who swears to his hurt and changes not; Yet, touched and softened nevertheless With the grace of Christian gentleness, The face that a child would climb to kiss! True and tender and brave and just, That man might honor and woman trust.
Page 812 - The direct trial of him who would be the greatest poet is today. If he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides and...
Page 262 - Where'er a human heart doth wear Joy's myrtle-wreath or sorrow's gyves, Where'er a human spirit strives After a life more true and fair, There is the true man's birthplace grand, His is a world-wide fatherland ! Where'er a single slave doth pine, Where'er one man may help another, — Thank God for such a birthright, brother, — That spot of earth is thine and mine ! There is the true man's birthplace grand, His is a world-wide fatherland...