The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 49Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1857 - American periodicals |
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... appearances she had been sitting in that chair for nearly two - thirds of a century , sitting there until the old ... appearance , and with that old - fashioned ceremony common to the negroes of old families , he quietly entered upon ...
... appearances she had been sitting in that chair for nearly two - thirds of a century , sitting there until the old ... appearance , and with that old - fashioned ceremony common to the negroes of old families , he quietly entered upon ...
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... appearance of greater length to the room than it really was : at one end was the fire - place , five feet in width and full three feet deep . The sharp frosty night made a fire necessary , but my sable companions , with their natural ...
... appearance of greater length to the room than it really was : at one end was the fire - place , five feet in width and full three feet deep . The sharp frosty night made a fire necessary , but my sable companions , with their natural ...
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... appearance ; but as he was , he looked like a dirt - cartman ' gone to seed . ' His black hat took the hue of the pulverized yellowish compound that floats in the air of our avenue , and wherever a friendly tallow - chandler had grasped ...
... appearance ; but as he was , he looked like a dirt - cartman ' gone to seed . ' His black hat took the hue of the pulverized yellowish compound that floats in the air of our avenue , and wherever a friendly tallow - chandler had grasped ...
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... appearance of other places I wot of , if those staunch old loyalists had had their way in the days gone by ! The Province House , which is built of a sort of yellow sand - stone , with pillars in front , and trees around it , is a well ...
... appearance of other places I wot of , if those staunch old loyalists had had their way in the days gone by ! The Province House , which is built of a sort of yellow sand - stone , with pillars in front , and trees around it , is a well ...
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... appearance , which were irresistibly comical . About night - fall we arrived at our journey's end and so ends my tale . I may yet resume the subject , and give the world a few more stage incidents ; but enough for the nonce . Grand ...
... appearance , which were irresistibly comical . About night - fall we arrived at our journey's end and so ends my tale . I may yet resume the subject , and give the world a few more stage incidents ; but enough for the nonce . Grand ...
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Page 30 - Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 160 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 222 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest, I will go ! and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried : the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 29 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 29 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 29 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more ; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 276 - Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers, — Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike were they free from Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics. Neither locks had they to their doors, nor bars to their windows ; But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of the owners ; There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance.
Page 160 - Fairer was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the air, as the priest with his hyssop Sprinkles the congregation, and scatters blessings upon them, Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal, Wearing her Norman cap, and her kirtle of blue, and the ear-rings, Brought in the olden time from France, and since, as an heirloom, Handed down from mother to child, through long generations.
Page 51 - In the world's broad field of battle. In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Page 299 - As we proceeded, the timid approach of twilight became more perceptible; the intense blue of the sky began to soften; the smaller stars, like little children, went first to rest; the sister beams of the Pleiades soon melted together; but the bright constellations of the west and north remained unchanged. Steadily the wondrous transfiguration went on. Hands of angels, hidden from mortal eyes, shifted the scenery of the heavens; the glories of night dissolved into the glories of...