Harper's Magazine, Volume 128Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1914 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... town ? So that great reconciler , literature , made it seem all right , and it still remained true that we could not " dream too much of France . " At the end of a day's walk through a storied country , where the still , sad music of ...
... town ? So that great reconciler , literature , made it seem all right , and it still remained true that we could not " dream too much of France . " At the end of a day's walk through a storied country , where the still , sad music of ...
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... town , tragically ancient , hardly to be distinguished from the rocky scarp up which it clambers and huddles , with a crown of church towers and great bells silhouetted against the sky . But along with these visible memo- ries will be ...
... town , tragically ancient , hardly to be distinguished from the rocky scarp up which it clambers and huddles , with a crown of church towers and great bells silhouetted against the sky . But along with these visible memo- ries will be ...
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... town . There was a great stillness in the air , and a sense overcame us , too , of a great sadness , sadness as of old , old music , as we sat there , with a curious impression that we had come not merely to a given point in space , but ...
... town . There was a great stillness in the air , and a sense overcame us , too , of a great sadness , sadness as of old , old music , as we sat there , with a curious impression that we had come not merely to a given point in space , but ...
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... Towns , and incon- venient at night . The table might well have been shifted at night to a better position in regard ... town might magically gather in the street outside and peer into the secrets of her incul- pable existence . When the ...
... Towns , and incon- venient at night . The table might well have been shifted at night to a better position in regard ... town might magically gather in the street outside and peer into the secrets of her incul- pable existence . When the ...
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... Towns when that carpet was bought , just as sealskin was the ne plus ultra of all furs ) ! The silken- polished ... town's legend , which legend had traveled to Rachel as far as Knype , whence she sprang . That is to say , one of ...
... Towns when that carpet was bought , just as sealskin was the ne plus ultra of all furs ) ! The silken- polished ... town's legend , which legend had traveled to Rachel as far as Knype , whence she sprang . That is to say , one of ...
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Page 14 - They that turn many to righteousness, shall shine as the stars for ever and ever.
Page 2 - I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
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Page 527 - I have mentioned surely the rule would have been more honored by a breach than by the observance. Seeing that we were fellow students, it might have been presumed that we were gentlemen and on an equal footing. How different are the manners of the American ! You can hardly take a walk, or go for any distance in a train, without being addressed by a stranger, and not infrequently making a friend. In some countries the fact that you are a foreigner only thickens the ice, in America it thaws it. This...
Page 103 - And in silence we two sit here in our waning honeymoon At this idle watering-place. . . . What now I see before me is a long lane overhung With lovelessness, and stretching from the present to the grave. And I would I were away from this, with friends I knew when young, Ere a woman held me slave. THE MOTH-SIGNAL (On Egdon Heath} " WHAT are you still, still thinking," He asked in vague surmise, " That you stare at the wick unblinking With those great lost luminous eyes?
Page 227 - THE LOOK STREPHON kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Strephon's kiss was lost in jest, Robin's lost in play, But the kiss in Colin's eyes Haunts me night and day.
Page 390 - Just ask Axon whether he means to go fetch wages to-day or to-morrow. Has he forgotten it's Saturday morning?" Louis shot away into the outer office, where Axon was just putting on his hat to go to the bank. Alone in the outer office, Louis wondered. The whole of his vitality was absorbed in the single function of wondering. Then, through the thin slit of the...
Page 486 - Government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the infinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations. The power of all corporations, ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.
Page 188 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Page 489 - ... naked deformity, the doctrine that religious truth is to be tested by numbers, or that the major sects have a right to govern the minor. If religion consists in voluntary acts of individuals, singly or voluntarily associated, and it be proper that public functionaries, as well as their constituents, should discharge their religious duties, let them, like their constituents, do so at their own expense.