Putnam's Monthly, Volumes 1-2G.P. Putnam & Company, 1853 - American literature |
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... least have as yet been able to interfere but little . Thanks to the far- seeing wisdom of some who are gone and some who yet remain among us , there are purifying processes at work in New - York , which , if inadequate in amount , are ...
... least have as yet been able to interfere but little . Thanks to the far- seeing wisdom of some who are gone and some who yet remain among us , there are purifying processes at work in New - York , which , if inadequate in amount , are ...
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... least commmenc- ing one ? But why do we talk of com- mencing , merely ? Are there not scores of men who owe their immense fortunes to the advantages afforded them by this commercial emporium , who have never voluntarily contributed one ...
... least commmenc- ing one ? But why do we talk of com- mencing , merely ? Are there not scores of men who owe their immense fortunes to the advantages afforded them by this commercial emporium , who have never voluntarily contributed one ...
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... least , the fair American , in her becoming habit and on her well - trained palfrey , canters gracefully by , seeming , by very contrast , a hundred - fold more bewitch- ing , as she smilingly acknowledges your island salutation , Aloha ...
... least , the fair American , in her becoming habit and on her well - trained palfrey , canters gracefully by , seeming , by very contrast , a hundred - fold more bewitch- ing , as she smilingly acknowledges your island salutation , Aloha ...
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... least , must come even to you . There will be a time when you will no longer go out to dinner , or only very qui- etly , in the family . I shall be gone then : but other old bookkeepers in white cra- vats , will inherit my tastes , and ...
... least , must come even to you . There will be a time when you will no longer go out to dinner , or only very qui- etly , in the family . I shall be gone then : but other old bookkeepers in white cra- vats , will inherit my tastes , and ...
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... least apparent exertion , and without so much as flapping his wide ex- tended vans . The fish - hawks are migratory birds , returning to us of the Northern Atlantic coasts , early in the month of March , in very great numbers , and ...
... least apparent exertion , and without so much as flapping his wide ex- tended vans . The fish - hawks are migratory birds , returning to us of the Northern Atlantic coasts , early in the month of March , in very great numbers , and ...
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Page 389 - He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host. Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 510 - God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Page 389 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 393 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 167 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 391 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 389 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking- off...
Page 389 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.
Page 379 - It had bene a thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished, that the Author himselfe had liv'd to have set forth, and overseen his owne writings; But since it hath bin ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his Friends, the office of their care, and paine...
Page 548 - ... in short, he need not come to my chambers after twelve o'clock, but, dinner over, had best go home to his, lodgings and rest himself till teatime. But no; he insisted upon his afternoon devotions. His countenance became intolerably fervid, as he oratorically assured me — gesticulating with a long ruler at the other end of the room — that if his services in the morning were useful, how indispensable, then, in the afternoon? "With submission, sir," said Turkey, on this occasion, "I consider...