Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-ZInternational Society, 1897 - Authors |
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Page 14734
... expression . She is at once accu- rate and picturesque in her descriptions . The land of the canebrake and the cypress swamp , of the poor white , the decayed planter and the negro , the Western town with its crude energy and strongly ...
... expression . She is at once accu- rate and picturesque in her descriptions . The land of the canebrake and the cypress swamp , of the poor white , the decayed planter and the negro , the Western town with its crude energy and strongly ...
Page 14736
... expression of wistful kind- liness that fixed his eyes on them for a full minute . He sighed as he dropped his hand . Then he observed that there was writ- ing on the reverse side of the carte , and lifted it again to read . In a neat ...
... expression of wistful kind- liness that fixed his eyes on them for a full minute . He sighed as he dropped his hand . Then he observed that there was writ- ing on the reverse side of the carte , and lifted it again to read . In a neat ...
Page 14738
... expression . He looked like a mere boy across the room in the shadow ; but as he advanced , certain deep lines about his mouth displayed themselves and raised his age . The sunlight showed that he was thin ; he was haggard the instant ...
... expression . He looked like a mere boy across the room in the shadow ; but as he advanced , certain deep lines about his mouth displayed themselves and raised his age . The sunlight showed that he was thin ; he was haggard the instant ...
Page 14742
... expression . Be- tween the two canvases hung a framed letter . It was labeled in bold Roman script , " Letter of Capt . R. T. Manley " ; and a glance showed the reader that it was the description of a battle , to a friend . One sentence ...
... expression . Be- tween the two canvases hung a framed letter . It was labeled in bold Roman script , " Letter of Capt . R. T. Manley " ; and a glance showed the reader that it was the description of a battle , to a friend . One sentence ...
Page 14772
... expression to the Shakespearean sonnets , and the sense throughout it , as in the sonnets , of the immor- tality that verse alone gives . These two poems are the type of one side of the Theocritean idyl ; the other , and one equally ...
... expression to the Shakespearean sonnets , and the sense throughout it , as in the sonnets , of the immor- tality that verse alone gives . These two poems are the type of one side of the Theocritean idyl ; the other , and one equally ...
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