The Century: 1884, Volumen29Century Company, 1885 |
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... whole poem . The Rubaiyát were in a measure fragmentary , al- though they may easily have answered to a whole in Omar's mind . The quatrains by Fitzgerald bring together the scattered parts , and hint at a series . As they now stand ...
... whole poem . The Rubaiyát were in a measure fragmentary , al- though they may easily have answered to a whole in Omar's mind . The quatrains by Fitzgerald bring together the scattered parts , and hint at a series . As they now stand ...
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... whole line of facts that a man himself would never think of . " He went on to put several queries , and it was from Lap- ham's answers that he generalized the history of his childhood . " Mr. Lapham , although he did not dwell on his ...
... whole line of facts that a man himself would never think of . " He went on to put several queries , and it was from Lap- ham's answers that he generalized the history of his childhood . " Mr. Lapham , although he did not dwell on his ...
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... whole time , and I've got a man and his wife in the house . Had a family meeting there last year ; the whole connection from out West . There ! " Lapham rose from his seat and took down a large warped , unframed photograph from the top ...
... whole time , and I've got a man and his wife in the house . Had a family meeting there last year ; the whole connection from out West . There ! " Lapham rose from his seat and took down a large warped , unframed photograph from the top ...
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... whole attention to a row of clean , smooth jars , where different tints of the paint showed through flawless glass , Lapham smiled and waited in pleased expectation . " Hello ! " said Bartley . " That's pretty ! " " Yes , " assented ...
... whole attention to a row of clean , smooth jars , where different tints of the paint showed through flawless glass , Lapham smiled and waited in pleased expectation . " Hello ! " said Bartley . " That's pretty ! " " Yes , " assented ...
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... whole family were amazed at the number she read , and rather proud of it . They were not girls who embroidered or abandoned themselves to needle - work . Irene spent her abundant leisure in shopping for herself and her mother , of whom ...
... whole family were amazed at the number she read , and rather proud of it . They were not girls who embroidered or abandoned themselves to needle - work . Irene spent her abundant leisure in shopping for herself and her mother , of whom ...
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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.