The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6Atlantic Monthly Company, 1860 |
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... beauty , we should destroy all its charm , if we attributed it to a sudden change in the reflecting surface of the epidermis , - a mere mechanical rushing of blood to the skin , and a corresponding change in its angle of reflection ...
... beauty , we should destroy all its charm , if we attributed it to a sudden change in the reflecting surface of the epidermis , - a mere mechanical rushing of blood to the skin , and a corresponding change in its angle of reflection ...
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... Beauty thrills us , When her love with rapture fills us , Let us seize it ere it passes ; Be our motto , " Love is mighty . " Fill , then , fill your brimming glasses ! Fill , and drink to Aphrodite ! Of course they drank with a right ...
... Beauty thrills us , When her love with rapture fills us , Let us seize it ere it passes ; Be our motto , " Love is mighty . " Fill , then , fill your brimming glasses ! Fill , and drink to Aphrodite ! Of course they drank with a right ...
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... beauty of May ; there were the rustic tombs , —the old negro , with a coun- tenance surcharged with the expression of solemn satisfaction at his employment , bending his aged figure over the broad , carved stone , and scraping from it ...
... beauty of May ; there were the rustic tombs , —the old negro , with a coun- tenance surcharged with the expression of solemn satisfaction at his employment , bending his aged figure over the broad , carved stone , and scraping from it ...
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... Beauty in the fairy tale , happily destined , at last , to be awakened , as she was , by one who by his perseverance had won a title to herself . This manuscript was now , in this day of revival , brought out from its hiding- place ...
... Beauty in the fairy tale , happily destined , at last , to be awakened , as she was , by one who by his perseverance had won a title to herself . This manuscript was now , in this day of revival , brought out from its hiding- place ...
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... beauty , and lingered to enjoy it . At last , however , the night came , the hour also , and punctually with it came Dr. Thorne , a kindly young phy- sician , and a man of much promise , well- read , prompt , clear - headed ...
... beauty , and lingered to enjoy it . At last , however , the night came , the hour also , and punctually with it came Dr. Thorne , a kindly young phy- sician , and a man of much promise , well- read , prompt , clear - headed ...
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Page 355 - They climb up into my turret O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I' try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere.
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Page 389 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 355 - I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away...
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Page 137 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 355 - I hear in the chamber above me • The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise.
Page 230 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...