Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Band 12Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells Harper's Magazine Company, 1856 Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... thing I can not stand . I have sent away six housekeepers , because each was mistaken for the mother of the children , and cach was no- thing loth , for they all understood what that im- plied . And so did I. There was but one guess ...
... thing I can not stand . I have sent away six housekeepers , because each was mistaken for the mother of the children , and cach was no- thing loth , for they all understood what that im- plied . And so did I. There was but one guess ...
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... thing was left behind when they went out ) , di- I put the question one day to my old friend rectly opposite my chair , on the other side of James Hayden , who had dined with me . Miss the grate . And then she would unconsciously Amity ...
... thing was left behind when they went out ) , di- I put the question one day to my old friend rectly opposite my chair , on the other side of James Hayden , who had dined with me . Miss the grate . And then she would unconsciously Amity ...
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... thing , extremely im- provident in the disposition of their limited means ; which fact destroys , in a great meas- ure , any thing like independence on their part in their dealings with the merchants of St. John's , who are the only ...
... thing , extremely im- provident in the disposition of their limited means ; which fact destroys , in a great meas- ure , any thing like independence on their part in their dealings with the merchants of St. John's , who are the only ...
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... thing sentient , and imagine it watching me . I thought I must be getting over - excited ! To overcome my fan- cies , I covered my eyes with my hand , and en - it . deavored to abstract my mind from feelings which seemed to be gathering ...
... thing sentient , and imagine it watching me . I thought I must be getting over - excited ! To overcome my fan- cies , I covered my eyes with my hand , and en - it . deavored to abstract my mind from feelings which seemed to be gathering ...
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... thing for the girl herself ; and as for Mary's one of those round , fat , curly things , that laugh , happiness , she must take the consequences of and cry , and kick up , and crow all day long - a her painful position . Her birth was ...
... thing for the girl herself ; and as for Mary's one of those round , fat , curly things , that laugh , happiness , she must take the consequences of and cry , and kick up , and crow all day long - a her painful position . Her birth was ...
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Seite 171 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Seite 312 - ... instead of having the prospect of a glorious offensive campaign before us, we have a bewildered and gloomy defensive one, unless we should receive a powerful aid of ships, land troops, and money from our generous allies, and these at present are too contingent to build upon.
Seite 314 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Seite 275 - Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close. And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose ; " ' But when the sun in all his state Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through Glory's morning gate, And walked in paradise.
Seite 309 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets.
Seite 245 - Ah! Easily said. I am the son, Mr Meagles, of a hard father and mother. I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies that were never their own, offered up as a part of a bargain for the security of their possessions. Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance...
Seite 301 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Seite 314 - I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments, of which the soldier, who is ever in pursuit of fame, the statesman, whose watchful days and sleepless nights are spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if this globe was insufficient for us all, and the courtier, who is always watching the countenance of his prince, in hopes of catching a gracious smile, can have very little conception.
Seite 391 - It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back, so that there •were no back rooms; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top.
Seite 279 - Thou pretty opening rose ! (Go to your mother, child, and wipe your nose !) Balmy and breathing music like the South, (He really brings my heart into my mouth !) Fresh as the morn, and brilliant as its star, — (I wish that window had an iron bar !) Bold as the hawk, yet gentle as the dove, — (I'll tell you what, my love, I cannot write unless he's sent above !) IV.