American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 51Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1858 - American periodicals |
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... light . We felt , if we did not look , like spectres . The sick woman alone seemed to breathe the life of a new and profound emotion ; but it seemed to me like the sorrowful joy of flowers blooming upon a grave . For a moment Father ...
... light . We felt , if we did not look , like spectres . The sick woman alone seemed to breathe the life of a new and profound emotion ; but it seemed to me like the sorrowful joy of flowers blooming upon a grave . For a moment Father ...
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... light fell strangely upon the low and narrow passage by which we proceeded , and our shadows upon the wall seemed to take the shapes of men in armor , while every puff of wind wailing through the crannies and loop - holes of the massive ...
... light fell strangely upon the low and narrow passage by which we proceeded , and our shadows upon the wall seemed to take the shapes of men in armor , while every puff of wind wailing through the crannies and loop - holes of the massive ...
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... light and coloring , it needs not to rob itself of all that Art has learned ; it may be all truth , and yet have breadth , and depth , and effective force of composition ; fore- ground and back - ground need not to be rolled out flat ...
... light and coloring , it needs not to rob itself of all that Art has learned ; it may be all truth , and yet have breadth , and depth , and effective force of composition ; fore- ground and back - ground need not to be rolled out flat ...
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... light . First , the light of conscience ; its fire is red and fierce ; it falls only on the closed door , on the weeds which encumber it , and on an apple shaken from one of the trees of the orchard , thus mark- ing that the entire ...
... light . First , the light of conscience ; its fire is red and fierce ; it falls only on the closed door , on the weeds which encumber it , and on an apple shaken from one of the trees of the orchard , thus mark- ing that the entire ...
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... light literature . We always answered ' No ; ' and were thereupon assured that there was a rich treat in store for us . ' With great self - denial , we are still reserving this pleasure for some future day . Is it a spirit of perversity ...
... light literature . We always answered ' No ; ' and were thereupon assured that there was a rich treat in store for us . ' With great self - denial , we are still reserving this pleasure for some future day . Is it a spirit of perversity ...
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