The Living Age, Volum 128E. Littell & Company, 1876 |
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Pàgina 27
... 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 vocation in life . " Miss So - and - So , " they say , " will probably be surprised 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 vocation in life . " Miss So - and - So , " they say , " will probably be surprised to ...
Pàgina 29
... write the magic prefix before her name , and to find her- self launched into higher circles ; the young gentleman ... writes Kaufmann ( merchant ) over his a having rich sons ; bankers and mer- chants will be admitted into " society ...
... write the magic prefix before her name , and to find her- self launched into higher circles ; the young gentleman ... writes Kaufmann ( merchant ) over his a having rich sons ; bankers and mer- chants will be admitted into " society ...
Pàgina 39
... write my letters , " continued Galbraith . never knew the luxury of a private secre- tary before , and as I believe the appetite grows with what it feeds upon , ' I shall miss your assistance greatly . I never found my correspondence so ...
... write my letters , " continued Galbraith . never knew the luxury of a private secre- tary before , and as I believe the appetite grows with what it feeds upon , ' I shall miss your assistance greatly . I never found my correspondence so ...
Pàgina 44
... writing . As a rule they abstain from punctuation , which is liable to lead them into fresh complications . Here is an answer from a Scripture - history paper . " Rahab sent Ruth out to glean in the fields of her kinsman Laban . " The ...
... writing . As a rule they abstain from punctuation , which is liable to lead them into fresh complications . Here is an answer from a Scripture - history paper . " Rahab sent Ruth out to glean in the fields of her kinsman Laban . " The ...
Pàgina 57
... writer , whether sacred or profane , always be at the pains to verify the quotation . " Mis- quotation is not ... write , where she credits the laureate with rector , on his own statement , The casement slowly grows , a glittering ...
... writer , whether sacred or profane , always be at the pains to verify the quotation . " Mis- quotation is not ... write , where she credits the laureate with rector , on his own statement , The casement slowly grows , a glittering ...
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Pàgina 219 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Pàgina 45 - 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!
Pàgina 137 - 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.
Pàgina 94 - 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...
Pàgina 221 - 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.
Pàgina 406 - 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,
Pàgina 58 - 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...
Pàgina 116 - 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...
Pàgina 217 - Rockabye Baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle and all.
Pàgina 458 - Ye never dreamt of this, for ten or twenty years after ye began to preach. Ye did not then, like Korah Dathan, and Abiram, seek the priesthood also. Ye knew, ' No man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.