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... story of " Old Ironsides " was posthumously contributed , in several instalments , to the maga- Except these and the ... story " is recognized as 99 develop its own short - story writers . Before IO PUTNAM'S MONTHLY.
... story of " Old Ironsides " was posthumously contributed , in several instalments , to the maga- Except these and the ... story " is recognized as 99 develop its own short - story writers . Before IO PUTNAM'S MONTHLY.
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... story writer , and could not readily " turn round " in a single number . Though his short stories contributed to PUTNAM'S were reprinted under the title of " Piazza Tales " they have had their day and long since ceased to be . Neither ...
... story writer , and could not readily " turn round " in a single number . Though his short stories contributed to PUTNAM'S were reprinted under the title of " Piazza Tales " they have had their day and long since ceased to be . Neither ...
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... story of noble effort and brilliant performance ; who can look back on the past without a blush and forward to the unknown without a fear . It is a life , I will not say for our friend to be proud of , for we know too well the dignified ...
... story of noble effort and brilliant performance ; who can look back on the past without a blush and forward to the unknown without a fear . It is a life , I will not say for our friend to be proud of , for we know too well the dignified ...
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... story of a lady who desired to shine especially before a certain great . professor . She was introduced to him on four separate occasions , and each time he greeted her with un- flagging cordiality , but absolutely no vestige of ...
... story of a lady who desired to shine especially before a certain great . professor . She was introduced to him on four separate occasions , and each time he greeted her with un- flagging cordiality , but absolutely no vestige of ...
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... story ; not to say that there is a very good account of it in " Appleton's Biographical History , " to which my little contribution is , that when I knew him he thought he was Louis XVII , or said he did . He told me the story of the ...
... story ; not to say that there is a very good account of it in " Appleton's Biographical History , " to which my little contribution is , that when I knew him he thought he was Louis XVII , or said he did . He told me the story of the ...
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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.
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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.