American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 57Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis 1861 - American periodicals |
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Page 36
... sleeping under and eating on top of my show - case , as I began , I occupied lodgings with a respectable cutler's widow , second - story front of a brick house on Third Avenue , and came down to my store every morning at nine o'clock ...
... sleeping under and eating on top of my show - case , as I began , I occupied lodgings with a respectable cutler's widow , second - story front of a brick house on Third Avenue , and came down to my store every morning at nine o'clock ...
Page 48
... sleep . Let me die this temporary death of slumber , ' said I ; ' there is happi- ness therein , and therein only . ' I was more of a Lord Byron at that instant ; more of a moral desperado ; less of a Thomas Carlyle , a Goethe ...
... sleep . Let me die this temporary death of slumber , ' said I ; ' there is happi- ness therein , and therein only . ' I was more of a Lord Byron at that instant ; more of a moral desperado ; less of a Thomas Carlyle , a Goethe ...
Page 58
... sleep parts of the tunes they had lent him . He was scarcely older , when two tickets for a rare concert ( in a day when concerts were like rain in the desert ) were given to his mother , and the poor seamstress , who could neither ...
... sleep parts of the tunes they had lent him . He was scarcely older , when two tickets for a rare concert ( in a day when concerts were like rain in the desert ) were given to his mother , and the poor seamstress , who could neither ...
Page 59
... sleep , and makes the ocean cry so in the night , and all the winds whistle and clap their wings when the dark comes , because you told me , and I always thank HIM in my prayers , mother . I wish , sometimes , He had made a field for me ...
... sleep , and makes the ocean cry so in the night , and all the winds whistle and clap their wings when the dark comes , because you told me , and I always thank HIM in my prayers , mother . I wish , sometimes , He had made a field for me ...
Page 61
... sleep , frequently calling on his mother to put by her work . It seemed as if the evening would never end , while he tossed impatiently about , yet entertaining myriad fantastic presences , and marshaling an ever- shifting procession of ...
... sleep , frequently calling on his mother to put by her work . It seemed as if the evening would never end , while he tossed impatiently about , yet entertaining myriad fantastic presences , and marshaling an ever- shifting procession of ...
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