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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... PRESENT CLOSING COUNTRY EPISTLE FROM DIE VERNON . ' 15. ILLEGIBILITY OF WRITERS FOR THE PUBLIC PRESS . 16. REDFIELD'S SERIES OF DICKENS'S LITTLE FOLKS , ' 17. A MALA- PROPOS INEBRIATE : A CLERGYMAN NONPLUSSED . 18. TO OUR FRIEND THE ...
... PRESENT CLOSING COUNTRY EPISTLE FROM DIE VERNON . ' 15. ILLEGIBILITY OF WRITERS FOR THE PUBLIC PRESS . 16. REDFIELD'S SERIES OF DICKENS'S LITTLE FOLKS , ' 17. A MALA- PROPOS INEBRIATE : A CLERGYMAN NONPLUSSED . 18. TO OUR FRIEND THE ...
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... present the grounds are fenced in to prevent the inroad of cattle and wandering swine , and if HEAVEN SO wills it , it will conform very much to my comfort and general way of thinking , if the British and other vagrants are kept at a ...
... present the grounds are fenced in to prevent the inroad of cattle and wandering swine , and if HEAVEN SO wills it , it will conform very much to my comfort and general way of thinking , if the British and other vagrants are kept at a ...
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... present occupants , who , with no unusual sentiment of their class and color , attached a high and almost religious importance to every thing that had belonged to those whom they had served and loved , and who were no more . An oval ...
... present occupants , who , with no unusual sentiment of their class and color , attached a high and almost religious importance to every thing that had belonged to those whom they had served and loved , and who were no more . An oval ...
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... present day be considered particularly expensive in New - York for a well - grown cat . Well , in the course of my one , two , and three - penny visits to this candy - shop , I used to sometimes meet and got acquainted with a pretty ...
... present day be considered particularly expensive in New - York for a well - grown cat . Well , in the course of my one , two , and three - penny visits to this candy - shop , I used to sometimes meet and got acquainted with a pretty ...
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... present youthful generation ain't far from facts . Such , however , were n't the facts in my case - seeing as the heft of the sweetness lay in the candy and not in any courting whatever . Chirk and lively we both were , and Mace Sloper ...
... present youthful generation ain't far from facts . Such , however , were n't the facts in my case - seeing as the heft of the sweetness lay in the candy and not in any courting whatever . Chirk and lively we both were , and Mace Sloper ...
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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...