The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 49Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1857 - American periodicals |
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... comes over the blue giant in the east , he finds his old companions of years standing quietly side by side , the oak leaning like a brother against the bosom of the tower . I may as well tell at once how it happened that I became the ...
... comes over the blue giant in the east , he finds his old companions of years standing quietly side by side , the oak leaning like a brother against the bosom of the tower . I may as well tell at once how it happened that I became the ...
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... come under Mace Sloper's notice , he begins to believe that the writers when they speak in that way of the present youthful generation ain't far from facts . Such , however , were n't the facts in my case - seeing as the heft of the ...
... come under Mace Sloper's notice , he begins to believe that the writers when they speak in that way of the present youthful generation ain't far from facts . Such , however , were n't the facts in my case - seeing as the heft of the ...
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... Come , now , ' says Sam , this is comfortable . I begin to feel as if I had found some relations . Things do work round queer sometimes , that are a fact , as they say out West . ' ' It just exactly ar ' , ' replied Hiram ; and talking ...
... Come , now , ' says Sam , this is comfortable . I begin to feel as if I had found some relations . Things do work round queer sometimes , that are a fact , as they say out West . ' ' It just exactly ar ' , ' replied Hiram ; and talking ...
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... comes round , And lonely I'm left in my labor . VL Pray , pray not to die When the chill breezes fly On the wings of the storm from the east ; But in Nature's sweet prime , The soft autumn - time , Then , then be our spirits released ...
... comes round , And lonely I'm left in my labor . VL Pray , pray not to die When the chill breezes fly On the wings of the storm from the east ; But in Nature's sweet prime , The soft autumn - time , Then , then be our spirits released ...
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... comes to mind to convey an idea of those regimental stoves , with their seams and channels of fire , over which potatoes bubble , and roast and broiled send forth a savory odor . And here and there , wistfully regarding this active ...
... comes to mind to convey an idea of those regimental stoves , with their seams and channels of fire , over which potatoes bubble , and roast and broiled send forth a savory odor . And here and there , wistfully regarding this active ...
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Acadian asked Aunt Ida Balaklava beautiful Benny better body breath called Captain child cold dark dear death deep dream eyes face Father Green fear feel feet flowers garroted gaze girl give Halifax hand happy head hear heard heart heaven honor hope hour JOHN BRIM knew lady leave light live look Louisburgh marriage married MARY JEMISON Mike mind morning mother Motherwort mountain never New-York night noble Nova Scotia o'er once passed Picton pleasant poor Portsmouth Square PRUE quiet racter replied Rude Keller Saint NICHOLAS SAM JONES Sampson scene schooner seemed side sleep smile soon sorrow soul spirit stood sure sweet talk tell thee thing thou thought tion told tree Trenton turned voice walk wild wind woman words Yaphank YEADON young youth
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Page 30 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 246 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest, I will go ! and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried : the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 29 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 184 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 550 - ... gossamers That twinkle into green and gold : Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps with all its autumn bowers, And crowded farms and lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main : Calm and deep peace in this wide air, These leaves that redden to the fall; And in my heart, if calm at all, | If any calm, a calm despair : Calm on the seas, and silver sleep, And waves that sway themselves in rest, And dead calm in that noble breast Which heaves but with the heaving deep. XII....
Page 59 - In the world's broad field of battle. In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Page 185 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Page 29 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 323 - ... but little affected by her presence. Jupiter, two hours high, was the herald of the day; the Pleiades just above the horizon shed their sweet influence in the east; Lyra sparkled near the zenith ; Andromeda...