American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 57Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis 1861 - American periodicals |
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... eyes , and I have seen something through those bars . I tell you that , with all the suffering on earth - bereavements , poverty , hunger , disease and oppression , that which goads man most is the craving for pleasure , for recreation ...
... eyes , and I have seen something through those bars . I tell you that , with all the suffering on earth - bereavements , poverty , hunger , disease and oppression , that which goads man most is the craving for pleasure , for recreation ...
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... eyes make him start : Living alone ! Heartless the trees , soulless the rocks , Nothing but wood and stones ? No sympathy here for sorrowful hearts , No voices with gentle tones ? Not heartless the forest while joy it yields ! Not ...
... eyes make him start : Living alone ! Heartless the trees , soulless the rocks , Nothing but wood and stones ? No sympathy here for sorrowful hearts , No voices with gentle tones ? Not heartless the forest while joy it yields ! Not ...
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... eyes , which seemed mere pèn- knife gashes in a piece of red morocco . At that day , I could not swear to the pupils ; but a profane man of sensitive mind , might have sworn at them , for they seemed to be a damp — not a swimming but a ...
... eyes , which seemed mere pèn- knife gashes in a piece of red morocco . At that day , I could not swear to the pupils ; but a profane man of sensitive mind , might have sworn at them , for they seemed to be a damp — not a swimming but a ...
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... eyes , and hear her voice , or open them at the transient moment when she was smiling , and forget that she was ... eyes in her hand . When I asked for one of them , she gave it to me with all the happiness of a helpful child ; and ...
... eyes , and hear her voice , or open them at the transient moment when she was smiling , and forget that she was ... eyes in her hand . When I asked for one of them , she gave it to me with all the happiness of a helpful child ; and ...
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... eyes , and say , ' Please talk to me , ' or , ' Please read to me , ' with as much abandonment as if I were speaking to my own mother . It never felt like exacting impertinent demands of a stranger , I was so marvellously at my ease in ...
... eyes , and say , ' Please talk to me , ' or , ' Please read to me , ' with as much abandonment as if I were speaking to my own mother . It never felt like exacting impertinent demands of a stranger , I was so marvellously at my ease in ...
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