The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 6Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1867 - American literature |
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... party amongst the masters , and addressing the chairman , even before the scowling operatives , he pro- posed some resolutions - firstly , declaring all communication between the masters and that particular trades ' union at an end ...
... party amongst the masters , and addressing the chairman , even before the scowling operatives , he pro- posed some resolutions - firstly , declaring all communication between the masters and that particular trades ' union at an end ...
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... party with Mr. Wilkins to talk over some business matter ; a disagreement arises , and Wilkins strikes his adversary a sud- den blow - a fatal blow . Down from her chamber comes Ellinor , and finds Dunster dead on the floor of her ...
... party with Mr. Wilkins to talk over some business matter ; a disagreement arises , and Wilkins strikes his adversary a sud- den blow - a fatal blow . Down from her chamber comes Ellinor , and finds Dunster dead on the floor of her ...
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... party . " My answer was , that the idea was excellent if he had been writing for Frenchmen , but that , as an American dinner - party was the exact fac - simile of an English one , a description of it would possess no special interest ...
... party . " My answer was , that the idea was excellent if he had been writing for Frenchmen , but that , as an American dinner - party was the exact fac - simile of an English one , a description of it would possess no special interest ...
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... parties without any diminution being discernible . Not only are they obnoxious by occupying the ground which the sheep farmer needs for his flocks , but they as- siduously follow the ewes when lambing , and devour the poor lambs as soon ...
... parties without any diminution being discernible . Not only are they obnoxious by occupying the ground which the sheep farmer needs for his flocks , but they as- siduously follow the ewes when lambing , and devour the poor lambs as soon ...
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... party arrived also on the gronnd . Beau- fort had not been without some hopes of being able to bring about an amicable adjustment of the quarrel , but all his en- deavors to do so proved fruitless . Nothing therefore was left but to ...
... party arrived also on the gronnd . Beau- fort had not been without some hopes of being able to bring about an amicable adjustment of the quarrel , but all his en- deavors to do so proved fruitless . Nothing therefore was left but to ...
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Page 93 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 194 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 412 - Like a tale of little meaning .though the words are strong; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil...
Page 265 - Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily: "What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "I heard the water lapping on the crag , And the long ripple washing in the reeds.
Page 2 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 156 - I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware!
Page 102 - Receive them free, and sell them by the weight; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated, And of a carat of this quantity, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity...
Page 421 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 104 - To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world: or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: — 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay...
Page 110 - Phlegra with the heroic race were joined That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabia.