The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 98Atlantic Monthly Company, 1906 |
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... passed them all in his power to throw his hearers into the heroic mood . But he was hardly heard of outside his state and sect , for the period of his prime was the war- time and the ten years thereafter . So far as the great world of ...
... passed them all in his power to throw his hearers into the heroic mood . But he was hardly heard of outside his state and sect , for the period of his prime was the war- time and the ten years thereafter . So far as the great world of ...
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... passed with honors . " " VOL . 98 - NO . 1 ... was frankly put by Motley in a letter to Holmes in 1862 : " I take great pleasure in reading your prophecies , and intend to be just as free in hazarding my own . If you make mistakes , you ...
... passed with honors . " " VOL . 98 - NO . 1 ... was frankly put by Motley in a letter to Holmes in 1862 : " I take great pleasure in reading your prophecies , and intend to be just as free in hazarding my own . If you make mistakes , you ...
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... passed in and out of the chamber . His young widow was — to use his aunt , Mrs. Pennington's , correct phrase " prostrated with grief . " His children were shut up in their nursery . Every few minutes the doorbell rang . Cards and notes ...
... passed in and out of the chamber . His young widow was — to use his aunt , Mrs. Pennington's , correct phrase " prostrated with grief . " His children were shut up in their nursery . Every few minutes the doorbell rang . Cards and notes ...
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... one natural thing on earth . She paused as she passed her brother's room , and laid her cheek softly against the closed door . " Tom , dear , " she said . I By a melancholy coincidence , each of the two When She Came to Glory 29.
... one natural thing on earth . She paused as she passed her brother's room , and laid her cheek softly against the closed door . " Tom , dear , " she said . I By a melancholy coincidence , each of the two When She Came to Glory 29.
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... passed , during which time Ibsen was gradually accepted as an enthusiastic poet of reform , who might " go too far ... passing , that , long afterwards , he dealt precisely with sculptors and with politicians . ) He even thought of ...
... passed , during which time Ibsen was gradually accepted as an enthusiastic poet of reform , who might " go too far ... passing , that , long afterwards , he dealt precisely with sculptors and with politicians . ) He even thought of ...
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Page 418 - SAVE me, O God ; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Page 419 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : Who maketh the clouds his chariot: Who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 425 - Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief: When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Page 751 - Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine.
Page 498 - A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away ; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day...
Page 420 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, And as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, And wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Page 144 - They say that thou wert, lovely from thy birth, Of glorious parents thou aspiring Child : I wonder not, for One then left this earth Whose life was like a setting planet mild, Which clothed thee in the radiance undefiled Of its departing glory ; still her fame Shines on thee, through the tempests dark and wild Which shake these latter days ; and thou canst claim The shelter, from thy Sire, of an immortal name.
Page 419 - Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness ; And Thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : And the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; The valleys also are covered over with corn ; They shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 419 - LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion : bless the LORD, O my soul. PSALM CIV. "DLESS the LORD, O my soul. O LORD *~* my God, thou art very great ; thou art clothed with honour and majesty : Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain...
Page 418 - COME, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.