Saratoga in 1901

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Sheldon, 1871 - 249 Seiten
"200 drawings by Arthur Lumley, the entire book, text and illustrations, is photolithographically produced. The title page [verso] refers to them as photo-etchings, all by William Augustus Leggo, Leggo & Co., Photo-Steam-Lith., Montreal, Canada. Leggo's primary business in Canada was the production of the newspaper the Illustrated Canadian News which he printed from late 1869 ... [until he] moved to New York in 1873 to start the New York Daily Graphic."--Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Library. Hanson Collection Catalog, p. 44.
 

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Seite 227 - NEVER wedding, ever wooing, Still a love-lorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing, Wed, or cease to woo.
Seite 116 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Seite 46 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Seite 211 - For this shall every one that is godly make his prayer unto thee, in a time when thou mayest be found : but in the great waterfloods they shall not come nigh him.
Seite 115 - And for kissing, — kisses live Only when we take or give. Kiss me, then, Every moment — and again! Give me kisses! Though their worth Far exceeds the gems of earth, Never pearls so rich and pure Cost so little, I am sure. Kiss me, then, Every moment — and again! Give me kisses! Nay, 'tis true...
Seite 93 - There's not an hour Of day or dreaming night but I am with thee : There's not a wind but whispers of thy name, And not a flower that sleeps beneath the moon But in its hues or fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love, to thy Mirandola.
Seite 114 - GIVE me kisses! Do not stay, Counting in that careful way. All the coins your lips can print Never will exhaust the mint. Kiss me, then, Every moment — and again!
Seite 17 - Jeff., an Uncle-Tom-like patriarch, and commenced in his usual vein : " Now, Uncle Jefferson," he said, " why do you thus pursue the habits of industry? This course of life is wrong — all wrong — all a base habit, Uncle Jefferson. Now try and break it off. Look at me, — look at Mr. Landon, the chivalric young Southern plantist from New York, he toils not, neither does he spin ; he pursues a career of contented idleness. If...
Seite 148 - I left them up at Poughkeepsie." "Do you gamble?" "When I feel good." "What is your profession?" "Agriculture and alminaxing." "How do you account for your deficient knowledge in spelling?" "Bad spells during infancy, and poor memory." "What things are you the most liable to forget?
Seite 207 - ... importations ; they came straight from London. They are simply the literary coinage which passes among the London chaps, in the clubs, and in the ante-room after the Lord Mayor's dinner. It wounds my national pride to think that we have to depend entirely on England for these "cant

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