Littell's Living Age, Volume 128Littell, Son and Company, 1876 - Literature |
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... lady with a grey veil , bent his body forward as if he wanted to sprain his back , and slipped about on the ice so comically that I thought the old man I would lose his balance , and was on the point of springing forward to seize him by ...
... lady with a grey veil , bent his body forward as if he wanted to sprain his back , and slipped about on the ice so comically that I thought the old man I would lose his balance , and was on the point of springing forward to seize him by ...
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... LADY . VIII . MEN . WHEN a man , as will now and again happen , has the misfortune to write and publish a more than usually feeble story , the critics , by a simple yet ingenious method , gently convey to him that he has mistaken his ...
... LADY . VIII . MEN . WHEN a man , as will now and again happen , has the misfortune to write and publish a more than usually feeble story , the critics , by a simple yet ingenious method , gently convey to him that he has mistaken his ...
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... lady is charmed to write the magic prefix before her name , and to find her- self launched into higher circles ; the young gentleman discovers that an opu- lent father - in - law is extremely convenient on occasion , and forgives the ...
... lady is charmed to write the magic prefix before her name , and to find her- self launched into higher circles ; the young gentleman discovers that an opu- lent father - in - law is extremely convenient on occasion , and forgives the ...
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... lady of suavity of manners and an absence at the house that will carry them round ; she once of the servile or the arrogant in a will be rewarded with a " Tausend Dank , man's intercourse with those of another meine Gnädigste , " but ...
... lady of suavity of manners and an absence at the house that will carry them round ; she once of the servile or the arrogant in a will be rewarded with a " Tausend Dank , man's intercourse with those of another meine Gnädigste , " but ...
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... Lady Lorrimer - to whom I have written on his behalf . Nothing can be more charming than the letters I have from them , fully recognizing my care and attention , especially Mrs. Harcourt , who wanted to come and nurse him , only he ...
... Lady Lorrimer - to whom I have written on his behalf . Nothing can be more charming than the letters I have from them , fully recognizing my care and attention , especially Mrs. Harcourt , who wanted to come and nurse him , only he ...
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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...