Littell's Living Age, Volume 114Living Age Company Incorporated, 1872 - American periodicals |
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... never suffered so with luggage in my life ! " " Yes , I have been round the world with less , " said Mr. Brandon . " So here she is , " proceeded Tom ; " she wants to persuade the old grandmother that she ought to take the entire ...
... never suffered so with luggage in my life ! " " Yes , I have been round the world with less , " said Mr. Brandon . " So here she is , " proceeded Tom ; " she wants to persuade the old grandmother that she ought to take the entire ...
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... never am crushed , I would rather be excused . " " Oh ! but it's nonsense to struggle , " said Tom , appealing to Miss Tott with his eyes . " You may kick and struggle as much as you like , but you must submit . " " I won't , " he ...
... never am crushed , I would rather be excused . " " Oh ! but it's nonsense to struggle , " said Tom , appealing to Miss Tott with his eyes . " You may kick and struggle as much as you like , but you must submit . " " I won't , " he ...
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... never allow any but hunted venison at his table . Every day but Sunday one buck was killed at the least , but most commonly a brace . He never made or returned any visit , the court and address of that county being made to him . There ...
... never allow any but hunted venison at his table . Every day but Sunday one buck was killed at the least , but most commonly a brace . He never made or returned any visit , the court and address of that county being made to him . There ...
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... never until this time serious . I never before asked anyone to marry me ; and surely this is serious that I offer for her sake to give up my country , and my friends , and my profession - everything . Surely that is serious enough ...
... never until this time serious . I never before asked anyone to marry me ; and surely this is serious that I offer for her sake to give up my country , and my friends , and my profession - everything . Surely that is serious enough ...
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... never objects to an abstract mother - in - law . Now , your mamma- - al- though she is not to be considered as a mother - in - law- " - " If Major Quinet has committed a fault , it is one of generosity . That is an error not common ...
... never objects to an abstract mother - in - law . Now , your mamma- - al- though she is not to be considered as a mother - in - law- " - " If Major Quinet has committed a fault , it is one of generosity . That is an error not common ...
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Page 389 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power ; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed...
Page 389 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 160 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 392 - Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Page 46 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 469 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 392 - He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Page 444 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Page 160 - I said to those who heard me first in America — ' O brothers, speaking the same dear mother tongue — O comrades, enemies no more, let us take a mournful hand together as we stand by this royal corpse, and call a truce to battle ! Low he lies to whom the proudest used to kneel once, and who was cast lower than the poorest: dead, whom millions prayed for in vain. Driven off his throne ; buffeted by rude hands ; with his children in revolt ; the darling of his old age killed before him untimely,...
Page 392 - Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep ; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one...