Putnam's Monthly and the Reader, Volume 1G.P. Putnam's Sons., 1907 |
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... sense of mingled remoteness and of nearness upon the names , in the publisher's private register , of " Rev. Henry James , " of course the senior bearer of that now more widely known name ( with a paper on Sir William Hamilton ) , and ...
... sense of mingled remoteness and of nearness upon the names , in the publisher's private register , of " Rev. Henry James , " of course the senior bearer of that now more widely known name ( with a paper on Sir William Hamilton ) , and ...
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... sense , my twin . was born in the first year of its civic life . We were young together , but there , I am sorry to say , the parallel ends . Aurora and Tithonus young together ; but the one grew old and gray , while the other flour ...
... sense , my twin . was born in the first year of its civic life . We were young together , but there , I am sorry to say , the parallel ends . Aurora and Tithonus young together ; but the one grew old and gray , while the other flour ...
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... sense , and I shall communicate it where it may have some good effect . " Say a thousand kind things for me to each and every one of your happy society . " BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . " MME . BRILLON TO DR . FRANKLIN 66 66 25th of December at ...
... sense , and I shall communicate it where it may have some good effect . " Say a thousand kind things for me to each and every one of your happy society . " BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . " MME . BRILLON TO DR . FRANKLIN 66 66 25th of December at ...
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... sense of buoyant elation . Then Frick engaged himself again with his papers , calm , intent , absorbed . But Cannon dropped his personal concerns , that he might indulge his passion for speech with a sym- pathetic listener concerning ...
... sense of buoyant elation . Then Frick engaged himself again with his papers , calm , intent , absorbed . But Cannon dropped his personal concerns , that he might indulge his passion for speech with a sym- pathetic listener concerning ...
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... sense of victory fresh upon him , there was that within his heart which cried a dauntless answer to the challenge ... senses were cloyed with a delicious weariness , and without effort or care he sank back into dreamless sleep . When he ...
... sense of victory fresh upon him , there was that within his heart which cried a dauntless answer to the challenge ... senses were cloyed with a delicious weariness , and without effort or care he sank back into dreamless sleep . When he ...
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Page 731 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 515 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 270 - So when they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Page 297 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Page 731 - The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Page 750 - The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire.
Page 44 - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.
Page 337 - Here let us sport. Boys, as we sit; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short; When we are gone, Let them sing on Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this; Faces we miss. Pleasant to see. Kind hearts and true, Gentle and just, Peace to your dust! We sing round the tree.
Page 296 - Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings. Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Page 337 - Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree.