Littell's Living Age, Volume 128Littell, Son and Company, 1876 - Literature |
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... heart was not untroubled ; and though I made my face broad enough the laugh stuck in my throat , and when I caught , in the looking - glass , a glimpse of myself with the stupidest expression in the world , I started up , paced up and ...
... heart was not untroubled ; and though I made my face broad enough the laugh stuck in my throat , and when I caught , in the looking - glass , a glimpse of myself with the stupidest expression in the world , I started up , paced up and ...
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... heart . There are some which pray to our Lord in heaven , - no doubt you can also find one for the best girl on earth . ” " Uncle , " said I , taking the book and turning the leaves , " I know what to do : I will say what my heart ...
... heart . There are some which pray to our Lord in heaven , - no doubt you can also find one for the best girl on earth . ” " Uncle , " said I , taking the book and turning the leaves , " I know what to do : I will say what my heart ...
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... heart , and , when the woman stared at him , pointed over his shoulder at me , saying , " Look there , Frau Bütoun , there he stands - my sis- ter's son . He's a betrothed bridegroom . " And when Frau Bütoun congratulated me , and ...
... heart , and , when the woman stared at him , pointed over his shoulder at me , saying , " Look there , Frau Bütoun , there he stands - my sis- ter's son . He's a betrothed bridegroom . " And when Frau Bütoun congratulated me , and ...
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... heart vows unbreathed - by words of love un- spoken ; So that , as now we part , - You have no blame to bear , and yet ' tis broken ! II . How shall I bear this blow , how best resent it ? Ah , love , you have not left me even my pride ...
... heart vows unbreathed - by words of love un- spoken ; So that , as now we part , - You have no blame to bear , and yet ' tis broken ! II . How shall I bear this blow , how best resent it ? Ah , love , you have not left me even my pride ...
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... heart , if there ever was a time Zealous Slaves have been known to an- when we ought to stretch forth a kindly swer that the Magyars are Turanian in - hand , it is to help these helpless victims truders no less than the Turks , and that ...
... heart , if there ever was a time Zealous Slaves have been known to an- when we ought to stretch forth a kindly swer that the Magyars are Turanian in - hand , it is to help these helpless victims truders no less than the Turks , and that ...
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Page 218 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 46 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 138 - He shall not be afraid of evil tidings : His heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
Page 138 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Page 95 - I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a...
Page 219 - The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh, night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet, lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!
Page 401 - We only toil, who are the first of things. And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm; Nor harken what the inner spirit sings,
Page 220 - Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 59 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be...
Page 117 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid — his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...