The North American Review, Volume 215University of Northern Iowa, 1922 - North American review Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... Common . By Percy Mac- Kaye , 142 ; A Ballad - Maker's Pack . Arthur Guiterman , 144 ; The Mind in the Making . By James Harvey Robinson , 279 ; The Tower of Oblivion . By Oliver Onions , 280 ; If Winter Comes . By A. S. M. Hutch- inson ...
... Common . By Percy Mac- Kaye , 142 ; A Ballad - Maker's Pack . Arthur Guiterman , 144 ; The Mind in the Making . By James Harvey Robinson , 279 ; The Tower of Oblivion . By Oliver Onions , 280 ; If Winter Comes . By A. S. M. Hutch- inson ...
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... common , it is likely that much capital will be dissipated in ventures which might have been successful under the old auspices , but which will now have the stars in the heavens set against them . Before the war it was commonly ...
... common , it is likely that much capital will be dissipated in ventures which might have been successful under the old auspices , but which will now have the stars in the heavens set against them . Before the war it was commonly ...
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... common fund . There is in Britain undoubtedly what in the United States would be called a " radical " movement . Of this movement , the large circulation of The Daily Herald - this despite its price raised to twopence or four cents - is ...
... common fund . There is in Britain undoubtedly what in the United States would be called a " radical " movement . Of this movement , the large circulation of The Daily Herald - this despite its price raised to twopence or four cents - is ...
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... common dangers . If the workers are foolish , then , it cannot be claimed that the thinkers have been altogether wise . Among all classes there have been faults , followed by an atonement of heroism . I cannot say that I found in ...
... common dangers . If the workers are foolish , then , it cannot be claimed that the thinkers have been altogether wise . Among all classes there have been faults , followed by an atonement of heroism . I cannot say that I found in ...
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... common experience for the American professor , in the early ' seventies , on calling the roll of his students in the class room , to have no response to the name , long familiar , of a student looking directly at him . The lad , hearing ...
... common experience for the American professor , in the early ' seventies , on calling the roll of his students in the class room , to have no response to the name , long familiar , of a student looking directly at him . The lad , hearing ...
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Page 182 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 182 - I .did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government — that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution...
Page 846 - And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.
Page 179 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Page 834 - Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in November or a pawpaw in May, did she wonder? does she remember? ... in the dust, in the cool tombs? Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries, cheering a hero or throwing confetti and blowing tin horns . . . tell me if the lovers are losers . . . tell me if any get more than the lovers ... in the dust ... in the cool tombs.
Page 90 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 525 - The brain of a true Caledonian (if I am not mistaken) is constituted upon quite a different plan. His Minerva is born in panoply. You are never admitted to see his ideas in their growth — if indeed they do grow, and are not rather put together upon principles of clock-work. You never catch his mind in an undress. He never hints or suggests any thing, but unlades his stock of ideas in perfect order and completeness.
Page 834 - COOL TOMBS When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin ... in the dust, in the cool tombs. And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street, cash and collateral turned ashes ... in the dust, in the cool tombs. Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in November or a pawpaw in May, did she wonder? does she remember? ... in the dust, in the cool tombs? Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries, cheering a...
Page 391 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 826 - NIGHT SONG AT AMALFI I asked the heaven of stars What I should give my love — It answered me with silence, Silence above. I asked the darkened sea Down where the fishermen go — It answered me with silence, Silence below.