Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 12Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells Harper's Magazine Company, 1856 Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... night . kingdom of Satan , and marched forth to the merciless slaughter of those valiant but power- less men , who were fighting only for their coun- try and their homes . A few miles from the city , on a level plain , the Spanish ...
... night . kingdom of Satan , and marched forth to the merciless slaughter of those valiant but power- less men , who were fighting only for their coun- try and their homes . A few miles from the city , on a level plain , the Spanish ...
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... night passed away and another morning dawned . It was the 8th of Novem- ber , 1519. As Cortez approached the city , several hundred Aztec chiefs announced that Montezuma was advancing to welcome him . The glittering train of the Emperor ...
... night passed away and another morning dawned . It was the 8th of Novem- ber , 1519. As Cortez approached the city , several hundred Aztec chiefs announced that Montezuma was advancing to welcome him . The glittering train of the Emperor ...
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... night darkened over the blood - stained hastened back from Zempoalla to the rescue and smouldering city . The Spaniards were of his beleaguered camp . He had now , with driven back into their fortress , while the na- this strangely ...
... night darkened over the blood - stained hastened back from Zempoalla to the rescue and smouldering city . The Spaniards were of his beleaguered camp . He had now , with driven back into their fortress , while the na- this strangely ...
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... night again descended , a deeper , heavier gloom rested upon the hearts of all in the Spanish camp . A wailing storm arose of wind and rain , and nature moaned and wept as if in sympathy with the woes of man . An immediate retreat was ...
... night again descended , a deeper , heavier gloom rested upon the hearts of all in the Spanish camp . A wailing storm arose of wind and rain , and nature moaned and wept as if in sympathy with the woes of man . An immediate retreat was ...
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... night the nurse asked , peeping in at the door , " Please , Miss Amity , mayn't I put the children to bed before you come up ? I should like to go out , if you please , miss . " " Oh , yes - no matter - I'll go up now . " But the nurse ...
... night the nurse asked , peeping in at the door , " Please , Miss Amity , mayn't I put the children to bed before you come up ? I should like to go out , if you please , miss . " " Oh , yes - no matter - I'll go up now . " But the nurse ...
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Page 171 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Page 312 - ... instead of having the prospect of a glorious offensive campaign before us, we have a bewildered and gloomy defensive one, unless we should receive a powerful aid of ships, land troops, and money from our generous allies, and these at present are too contingent to build upon.
Page 314 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Page 275 - Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close. And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose ; " ' But when the sun in all his state Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through Glory's morning gate, And walked in paradise.
Page 309 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets.
Page 245 - Ah! Easily said. I am the son, Mr Meagles, of a hard father and mother. I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies that were never their own, offered up as a part of a bargain for the security of their possessions. Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance...
Page 301 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Page 314 - I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments, of which the soldier, who is ever in pursuit of fame, the statesman, whose watchful days and sleepless nights are spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if this globe was insufficient for us all, and the courtier, who is always watching the countenance of his prince, in hopes of catching a gracious smile, can have very little conception.
Page 391 - It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back, so that there •were no back rooms; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top.
Page 279 - Thou pretty opening rose ! (Go to your mother, child, and wipe your nose !) Balmy and breathing music like the South, (He really brings my heart into my mouth !) Fresh as the morn, and brilliant as its star, — (I wish that window had an iron bar !) Bold as the hawk, yet gentle as the dove, — (I'll tell you what, my love, I cannot write unless he's sent above !) IV.