The Century: 1884, Volumen29Century Company, 1885 |
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... Duke , Jr. ) IN MISS KATE L.'S BIRTHDAY BOOK ( Charles Henry Webb ) 480 480 479 157 478 LOVE PASSES BY ( Mary Ainge De Vere ) ... 157 LOVE'S SEASONS ( Frank Dempster Sherman ) ...... 960 MAD POET , A ( Nat Lee ) . 320 MODJESKA AS ...
... Duke , Jr. ) IN MISS KATE L.'S BIRTHDAY BOOK ( Charles Henry Webb ) 480 480 479 157 478 LOVE PASSES BY ( Mary Ainge De Vere ) ... 157 LOVE'S SEASONS ( Frank Dempster Sherman ) ...... 960 MAD POET , A ( Nat Lee ) . 320 MODJESKA AS ...
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... Duke , Jr. Uncle Esek's Wisdom . You can encourage the timid , restrain the bold , punish the wicked , but for the weak there is no help . THE most reliable people we have are those whose brains are located in their heads . THERE is ...
... Duke , Jr. Uncle Esek's Wisdom . You can encourage the timid , restrain the bold , punish the wicked , but for the weak there is no help . THE most reliable people we have are those whose brains are located in their heads . THERE is ...
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... duke seized the title and estates - the infant real duke was ignored . I am the lineal de- Kemile . " I AM THE RIGHTFUL DUKE OF BRIDGEWATER . " scendant of that infant - I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater ; and here am I , forlorn ...
... duke seized the title and estates - the infant real duke was ignored . I am the lineal de- Kemile . " I AM THE RIGHTFUL DUKE OF BRIDGEWATER . " scendant of that infant - I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater ; and here am I , forlorn ...
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... duke's great - grandfather and all the other Dukes of Bilgewater was a good deal thought of by his father , and was allowed to come to the palace considerable ; but the duke staid huffy a good while , till by and by the king says ...
... duke's great - grandfather and all the other Dukes of Bilgewater was a good deal thought of by his father , and was allowed to come to the palace considerable ; but the duke staid huffy a good while , till by and by the king says ...
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... duke says : " ' Tis my fate to be always ground into the mire under the iron heel of oppression . Mis- fortune has broken my once haughty spirit ; I yield , I submit ; ' tis my fate . I am alone in the world - let me suffer ; I can bear ...
... duke says : " ' Tis my fate to be always ground into the mire under the iron heel of oppression . Mis- fortune has broken my once haughty spirit ; I yield , I submit ; ' tis my fate . I am alone in the world - let me suffer ; I can bear ...
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Página 169 - I wish for nothing but to breathe, in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain and contemplate your glory.
Página 382 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Página 224 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture ' of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Página 7 - Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd — Man's forgiveness give — and take!
Página 74 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 114 - A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman burned for coining, excited less sympathy than is now felt for a galled horse or an overdriven ox.
Página 113 - The discipline of workshops, of schools, of private families, though not more efficient than at present, was infinitely harsher. Masters, well born and bred, were in the habit of beating their servants. Pedagogues knew no way of imparting knowledge but by beating their pupils. Husbands, of decent station, were not ashamed to beat their wives.
Página 268 - A little smoke couldn't be noticed now, so we would take some fish off of the lines and cook up a hot breakfast. And afterwards we would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by and by lazy off to sleep.
Página 549 - ... others, and that corner was hanging over. People lived in them yet, but it was dangersome, because sometimes a strip of land as wide as a house caves in at a time. Sometimes a belt of land a quarter of a mile deep will start in and cave along and cave along till it all caves into the river in one summer. Such a town as that has to be always moving back, and back, and back, because the river's always gnawing at it.
Página 276 - ... forgot her Testament, and left it in the seat at church between two other books, and would I slip out quiet and go there and fetch it to her, and not say nothing to nobody. I said I would. So I slid out and slipped off up the road, and there warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.