The North American Review, Volume 18Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1824 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... hundred thousand francs ; and the jeweller having finished it , repeat- edly proposed to the queen to make the purchase . This she steadily refused to do , and Boehmer after a while appear- ed to acquiesce in this decision , and nothing ...
... hundred thousand francs ; and the jeweller having finished it , repeat- edly proposed to the queen to make the purchase . This she steadily refused to do , and Boehmer after a while appear- ed to acquiesce in this decision , and nothing ...
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... hundred and twenty thousand francs ; but feeling , probably , that this deception could not last forever , she determined to improve it to the utmost , while it was still perfect , and for this purpose cast her eyes upon the famous ...
... hundred and twenty thousand francs ; but feeling , probably , that this deception could not last forever , she determined to improve it to the utmost , while it was still perfect , and for this purpose cast her eyes upon the famous ...
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... hundred thousand francs , and as the queen was represented as short of cash , the Cardinal consented to provide for the first instalment himself . It was impossible , however , while this business was in pro- gress , to avoid the ...
... hundred thousand francs , and as the queen was represented as short of cash , the Cardinal consented to provide for the first instalment himself . It was impossible , however , while this business was in pro- gress , to avoid the ...
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... hundred louis each . few moments after their arrival , the queen entered the room , accompanied by the king and Madame Elizabeth . The king remained standing before the chimney , the queen and Madame Elizabeth sat upon the sofa , I ...
... hundred louis each . few moments after their arrival , the queen entered the room , accompanied by the king and Madame Elizabeth . The king remained standing before the chimney , the queen and Madame Elizabeth sat upon the sofa , I ...
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... hundred persons entered this room , which was the one next to that where the family were ; and other persons occupied the rooms adjoining . Some of these were , in fact , noble- men , others had but slight pretensions on the score of ...
... hundred persons entered this room , which was the one next to that where the family were ; and other persons occupied the rooms adjoining . Some of these were , in fact , noble- men , others had but slight pretensions on the score of ...
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Page 361 - LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING By William Wordsworth HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran ; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths ; And 'tis my faith that every flower . Enjoys the air it breathes.
Page 362 - Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 356 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, — To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 356 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Page 360 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 361 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 210 - Society for the prevention of Pauperism in the City of New York.
Page 92 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas : and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms ; I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
Page 359 - Two Voices are there; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice...
Page 360 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine...