Scribners Monthly, Band 8Scribner & Company, 1874 |
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... took the measure of his prize . I asked him no questions , but I saw that he was intensely preoccupied , and was becoming daily better convinced that it was a rare one . He went about whistling and hum- ming odd scraps of song , like a ...
... took the measure of his prize . I asked him no questions , but I saw that he was intensely preoccupied , and was becoming daily better convinced that it was a rare one . He went about whistling and hum- ming odd scraps of song , like a ...
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... took the requisite vigorous measures , —it was a matter , you know , of fists and elbows and knees , and obtained places for the two ladies at the Midnight Mass at the Sistine Chapel . Mrs. Waddington was my es- pecial charge , and on ...
... took the requisite vigorous measures , —it was a matter , you know , of fists and elbows and knees , and obtained places for the two ladies at the Midnight Mass at the Sistine Chapel . Mrs. Waddington was my es- pecial charge , and on ...
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... took two or three more turns about the room , and then suddenly stopped before his toilet - table , and pulled out a tray in his dressing - case . There lay the great intaglio ; larger even than I should have dared to boast . That would ...
... took two or three more turns about the room , and then suddenly stopped before his toilet - table , and pulled out a tray in his dressing - case . There lay the great intaglio ; larger even than I should have dared to boast . That would ...
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... took out her hairpin , and tossed it into my face . She never wished to see me again ; she had as lief marry a blind beggar at a cross - road . What was I to say ? She had a sister who was waiting - maid to a fine lady in Rome , —a ...
... took out her hairpin , and tossed it into my face . She never wished to see me again ; she had as lief marry a blind beggar at a cross - road . What was I to say ? She had a sister who was waiting - maid to a fine lady in Rome , —a ...
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... took the child in her arms . " I want to tell you something , " she said . " You must never do this again . You must never listen to any stranger upon the street . Will you remember ? " " " “ Yes , ma'am ; but the child made an ...
... took the child in her arms . " I want to tell you something , " she said . " You must never do this again . You must never listen to any stranger upon the street . Will you remember ? " " " “ Yes , ma'am ; but the child made an ...
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Seite 455 - Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Seite 477 - God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Seite 339 - And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write.
Seite 316 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Seite 333 - Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Seite 162 - Lo ! I forgive thee, as Eternal God Forgives : do thou for thine own soul the rest.
Seite 167 - ... if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Seite 314 - To the Reader THIS Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face; the Print would then surpasse All, that was ever writ in brasse. But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
Seite 339 - What then his father was, that since is he. Now with a title more to the degree ; England's high Chancellor, the destined heir In his soft cradle to his father's chair ; Whose even thread the fates spin round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool.
Seite 378 - Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear : — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not ' Good night ' — but in some brighter clime Bid me