The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 21Atlantic Monthly Company, 1868 - American essays |
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... play With fancies borrowed from remembered hills That beckon to me from the cold blue North . And yet not idly all . A farmer's son , Proud of field lore and harvest - craft , and feeling All their fine possibilities , while yet Knowing ...
... play With fancies borrowed from remembered hills That beckon to me from the cold blue North . And yet not idly all . A farmer's son , Proud of field lore and harvest - craft , and feeling All their fine possibilities , while yet Knowing ...
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... played with ivory keys , Or danced the polka's measure . " He bent his black brows to a frown , He set his white teeth tightly . 66 " ' T is well , " he said , " for one like you To choose for me so lightly . " You think , because my ...
... played with ivory keys , Or danced the polka's measure . " He bent his black brows to a frown , He set his white teeth tightly . 66 " ' T is well , " he said , " for one like you To choose for me so lightly . " You think , because my ...
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... playing the sweet , old - fashioned tunes of our youth to him till the place was dark save for the glow of the fire thrown upon the ceiling , and , despite the whistling of the storm without , all the atmosphere of the room was quiet ...
... playing the sweet , old - fashioned tunes of our youth to him till the place was dark save for the glow of the fire thrown upon the ceiling , and , despite the whistling of the storm without , all the atmosphere of the room was quiet ...
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... playing with their hearts , the while , very much as a kit- ten plays with a ball . Between his glances the Doctor paid all due attention to Mrs. Hazard , but Joey's case he considered far the more interesting of the two . Mrs. Hazard ...
... playing with their hearts , the while , very much as a kit- ten plays with a ball . Between his glances the Doctor paid all due attention to Mrs. Hazard , but Joey's case he considered far the more interesting of the two . Mrs. Hazard ...
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... play of blue wildfire , like the sulphurous spirt of a lucifer - match , giving substance to the rumor that Geordie had been no other than a hedge - born child of the old country , a rumor that had not been slow to reach his ear and ...
... play of blue wildfire , like the sulphurous spirt of a lucifer - match , giving substance to the rumor that Geordie had been no other than a hedge - born child of the old country , a rumor that had not been slow to reach his ear and ...
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Page 56 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike; And like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Page 226 - The question fairly stated is, Has the Constitution delegated to Congress the power to coerce a State into submission which is attempting to withdraw or has actually withdrawn from the Confederacy?
Page 385 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall : The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call : The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 482 - That hereafter, in this State, there shall be neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; and all persons held to service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free.
Page 555 - Little improvement can be expected in morality until the producing large families is regarded with the same feelings as drunkenness or any other physical excess. But while the aristocracy and clergy are foremost to set the example of this kind of incontinence, what can be expected from the poor?
Page 609 - sa narrow ridge in the graveyard Would scarce stay a child in his race, But to me and my thought it is wider Than the star-sown vague of Space.
Page 108 - If ever I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed; and here I have been glad and hopeful, and here I have been despondent.
Page 286 - The number was not so great as we expected; and tho' they had been of great use, yet some inconveniences occurring for want of due care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library.
Page 370 - He scarce believes he's older for his years. Thus, at life's latest eve, we keep in store One disappointment sure, to crown the rest; The disappointment of a promis'd hour.
Page 610 - Communion in spirit! Forgive me, But I, who am earthy and weak, Would give all my incomes from dreamland For a touch of her hand on my cheek. That little shoe in the corner, So worn and wrinkled and brown, With its emptiness confutes you, And argues your wisdom down.