Monthly BulletinSt. LouisPublic Library, 1897 |
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... less than two min- utes in all . Of more difficult lists this can not be claimed ; but , taken all in all , the system must be commended as one of the most rapid and accurate in execution of all systems yet devised . The largest number ...
... less than two min- utes in all . Of more difficult lists this can not be claimed ; but , taken all in all , the system must be commended as one of the most rapid and accurate in execution of all systems yet devised . The largest number ...
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... less than three years ago . It is fast outgrowing its present accommoda- tions , and new quarters will soon be im- perative . J. W. GEORGE . CATALOGUING ROOM . KEEP YOUR NUMBERS . A glance at the plan of the MAGAZINE will show that ...
... less than three years ago . It is fast outgrowing its present accommoda- tions , and new quarters will soon be im- perative . J. W. GEORGE . CATALOGUING ROOM . KEEP YOUR NUMBERS . A glance at the plan of the MAGAZINE will show that ...
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... less , and each is occasionally coarse . In compar- ing them I confess to a long standing partiality for Bret Harte . In burlesque humor he is Kipling's superior , and he can be dainty and pathetic in a way that the latter has not time ...
... less , and each is occasionally coarse . In compar- ing them I confess to a long standing partiality for Bret Harte . In burlesque humor he is Kipling's superior , and he can be dainty and pathetic in a way that the latter has not time ...
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... less bit of animal flesh . Very probably the grow- ing disaffection and dis- content throughout the northwestern provinces would have found some other pretext for an outbreak ; but authorities agree that , if the native soldiers had not ...
... less bit of animal flesh . Very probably the grow- ing disaffection and dis- content throughout the northwestern provinces would have found some other pretext for an outbreak ; but authorities agree that , if the native soldiers had not ...
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... less complaint against real or seeming injuries , that it is refreshing to read the utterances of a woman's soul whose noble poetic inspirations lift her above all con- sciousness of rivalry or of sex limitations , and even above the ...
... less complaint against real or seeming injuries , that it is refreshing to read the utterances of a woman's soul whose noble poetic inspirations lift her above all con- sciousness of rivalry or of sex limitations , and even above the ...
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Page 319 - DAUGHTERS of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands. To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
Page 316 - THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Page 318 - OH MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE." Longum illud tempus.quum non ero, magis me novel, quam hoc exiguum. Cicero, ad Alt., XIT., 18. Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Page 183 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance but itself; no beauty, nor good nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard...
Page 353 - To sit the midst of Trinal Unity, He laid aside ; and here with us to be, Forsook the courts of everlasting day, And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay.
Page 333 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
Page 93 - No matter how poor I am. No matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling. If the Sacred Writers will enter and take...
Page 353 - Muse, shall not thy sacred vein Afford a present to the Infant God? Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain, To welcome Him to this His new abode, Now while the Heaven, by the Sun's team untrod, Hath took no print of the approaching light, And all the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright?
Page 319 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 353 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring ; For so the holy sages once did sing That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work us a perpetual peace.