American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 17Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1841 - American periodicals |
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Page 46
... write , the signal for the evening prayer comes swelling on the wind ; the vesper bell , or more properly the Avé - Maria . We rise from our desk , and flinging open the casement of the corridor , gaze down into the Plaza , ' thronged ...
... write , the signal for the evening prayer comes swelling on the wind ; the vesper bell , or more properly the Avé - Maria . We rise from our desk , and flinging open the casement of the corridor , gaze down into the Plaza , ' thronged ...
Page 64
... writes or makes sketches in albums , shapes a hat , matches a color with a complexion , to a nicety ; is an obsequious attendant upon the ladies , in the absence of nobler gallants . He understands dumb show , the most difficult part of ...
... writes or makes sketches in albums , shapes a hat , matches a color with a complexion , to a nicety ; is an obsequious attendant upon the ladies , in the absence of nobler gallants . He understands dumb show , the most difficult part of ...
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... writer of the following pages a thorough American , who has looked upon Mr. COOPER's late course ' more in sorrow than ... write in his fine library , with a free mind and unembittered heart , would soon live down all the ' conspiracies ...
... writer of the following pages a thorough American , who has looked upon Mr. COOPER's late course ' more in sorrow than ... write in his fine library , with a free mind and unembittered heart , would soon live down all the ' conspiracies ...
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... writer whose genius has exalted the name and the fame of his country throughout the civilized world ? Without attempting ... write up to his first work , and even to surpass it in his second , without regard to impossibilities , or those ...
... writer whose genius has exalted the name and the fame of his country throughout the civilized world ? Without attempting ... write up to his first work , and even to surpass it in his second , without regard to impossibilities , or those ...
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... write , was not to display our knowledge of the world , nor to imitate the example of BURKE , but simply to transcribe a critique of ' The Pathfinder ' by M. DE BALZAC , which we chanced to meet in the August number of his ' Revue ...
... write , was not to display our knowledge of the world , nor to imitate the example of BURKE , but simply to transcribe a critique of ' The Pathfinder ' by M. DE BALZAC , which we chanced to meet in the August number of his ' Revue ...
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