The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 54Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1859 - American periodicals |
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... Mlle . Marguerite , always buried like a Nubian sphinx in some unknown dream , nevertheless condescends with thoughtful kindness to repeat for me my favorite airs . She has a beautiful contralto voice , which she manages with consummate ...
... Mlle . Marguerite , always buried like a Nubian sphinx in some unknown dream , nevertheless condescends with thoughtful kindness to repeat for me my favorite airs . She has a beautiful contralto voice , which she manages with consummate ...
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... Mlle . Marguerite , and Mlle . Hélouin . The friend is an old maid , eighty - eight years old . I fear she is not a compensation . Mlle . Hélouin , with whom I will settle accounts first , is an ungrate ful person . My alleged wrongs to ...
... Mlle . Marguerite , and Mlle . Hélouin . The friend is an old maid , eighty - eight years old . I fear she is not a compensation . Mlle . Hélouin , with whom I will settle accounts first , is an ungrate ful person . My alleged wrongs to ...
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... Mlle . Hélouin , to whom it happened that I had occasion to show some particular attention dur- ing the day , took my arm gently , and , picking to pieces an orange- flower with her delicate white teeth , said to me , with a little ...
... Mlle . Hélouin , to whom it happened that I had occasion to show some particular attention dur- ing the day , took my arm gently , and , picking to pieces an orange- flower with her delicate white teeth , said to me , with a little ...
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... Mlle . Marguerite replied , for Mlle . de Porhoët has not come yet . ' A moment afterwards , as the clock was on the point of striking , the door opened , and Mlle . Jocelynde de Porhoët - Gaël , leaning on Doctor Desmarets ' arm ...
... Mlle . Marguerite replied , for Mlle . de Porhoët has not come yet . ' A moment afterwards , as the clock was on the point of striking , the door opened , and Mlle . Jocelynde de Porhoët - Gaël , leaning on Doctor Desmarets ' arm ...
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... Mlle . de Porhoët , who was attached to the household of the Duke of Anjou , crossed the Pyrenees in the retinue of the young Prince , afterwards Philip the Fifth , and formed in Spain a pros- perous establishment . His direct ...
... Mlle . de Porhoët , who was attached to the household of the Duke of Anjou , crossed the Pyrenees in the retinue of the young Prince , afterwards Philip the Fifth , and formed in Spain a pros- perous establishment . His direct ...
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Page 580 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 216 - The Greek Testament: with a critically revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers, By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels.
Page 647 - I shall bo soon ; Beyond the shining and the shading, Beyond the hoping and the dreading, I shall be soon. Love, rest, and home ! Sweet hope ! Lord, tarry not, but come.
Page 531 - Hippocrates, with which, according to some authorities, Dr. Heidegger was accustomed to hold consultations, in all difficult cases of his practice. In the obscurest corner of the room stood a tall and narrow oaken closet, with its door ajar, within which doubtfully appeared a skeleton. Between two of the bookcases hung a looking-glass presenting its high and dusty plate within a tarnished gilt frame.
Page 426 - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Page 540 - O gifts with rain and sunshine sent! The bounty overruns our due, The fulness shames our discontent. We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on; We murmur, but the corn-ears fill ; We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines behind us still.
Page 531 - ... little better than a mendicant. Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years, and his health and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body.
Page 81 - Three Visits to Madagascar during the Years 1853— 1854 — 1856. Including a Journey to the Capital, with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilization of the People. By the Rev. WILLIAM ELLIS, FHS, Author of "Polynesian Researehes.
Page 321 - But if the moral pestilence that rises with them, and, in the eternal laws of outraged Nature, is inseparable from them, could be made discernible too, how terrible the revelation ! Then should we see depravity, impiety, drunkenness, theft, murder, and a long train of nameless sins against the natural affections and repulsions of mankind, overhanging the devoted spots, and creeping on, to blight the innocent and spread contagion among the pure.
Page 231 - And what adds to my mortification is, that this post, after the last ships went past it, was held contrary to my wishes and opinion, as I conceived it to be a hazardous one; but, it having been determined on by a full council of general officers, and a resolution of Congress having been received strongly expressive of their desire, that the channel of the river, which we had been laboring to stop for a long time at that place, might be obstructed, if possible, and knowing that this could not be done,...