Harper's Magazine, Volume 133; Volume 143Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1921 - American literature |
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... land , the relic of a family really some centuries old ; and the antiquity was not heraldry but history . Nobody knew better than Fisher how rare such noble- men are in fact , and how numerous in fiction . But whether the duke owed the ...
... land , the relic of a family really some centuries old ; and the antiquity was not heraldry but history . Nobody knew better than Fisher how rare such noble- men are in fact , and how numerous in fiction . But whether the duke owed the ...
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... land- scape , like that of a lost dream . It was rather a waterscape than a land- scape , a thing of flooded meadows and low trees and the dark archway of a bridge . And for one instant he saw again the man with mustaches like dark ...
... land- scape , like that of a lost dream . It was rather a waterscape than a land- scape , a thing of flooded meadows and low trees and the dark archway of a bridge . And for one instant he saw again the man with mustaches like dark ...
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... land , seem to have count- ed for little to these energetic townspeo- ple . It is recorded of Mr. John Elwyn , an accomplished scholar who translat- ed the Koran , and knew most languages living and dead , that he would vary his serious ...
... land , seem to have count- ed for little to these energetic townspeo- ple . It is recorded of Mr. John Elwyn , an accomplished scholar who translat- ed the Koran , and knew most languages living and dead , that he would vary his serious ...
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... land- marks . " " Landmarks ! " roared Deep - water Peter . " What's a landmark good for but to take a new departure ? " To the sea - goers , tilted on a bench in the shadow of the Customs House , he added , " What life must be without ...
... land- marks . " " Landmarks ! " roared Deep - water Peter . " What's a landmark good for but to take a new departure ? " To the sea - goers , tilted on a bench in the shadow of the Customs House , he added , " What life must be without ...
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... land of the real Aztecs . Besides being expert builders with wood and stone , these people were good potters . Pottery fragments cover the surface of the ground around the ruin and turn up in every shovel of earth moved from within . A ...
... land of the real Aztecs . Besides being expert builders with wood and stone , these people were good potters . Pottery fragments cover the surface of the ground around the ruin and turn up in every shovel of earth moved from within . A ...
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Page 394 - We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations.
Page 123 - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves...
Page 33 - I have three thousand dollars in hard money; I will pledge my plate for three thousand more; I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall be sold for the most it will bring. These are at the service of the State. If we succeed in defending our firesides and homes, I may be remunerated; if we do not, the property will be of no value to me.
Page 210 - Alfred with most unqualified praise, or only qualifying my praise by the occasional politic interposition of an exception taken against trivial faults, slips, and human imperfections, which, by removing the appearance of insincerity, did but in truth heighten the relish. Perhaps I might have spared that refinement, for Joseph was in a humour to hope and believe all things.
Page 394 - ... the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. Matter will know itself no longer. Imperishable monuments and immortal deeds...
Page 725 - No Malay nation has ever emerged from the hordes of that race which have spread over the Islands of the Pacific. Wherever they are found they have certain marked characteristics, and of these the most remarkable is their lack of that spirit which goes to form a homogeneous people, to weld them together. The Malay is always a provincial; more, he rarely rises outside the interests of his town or village.
Page 428 - ... trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His footprint in the sod. Then suddenly, all unaware, Far off in the deep shadows, where A solitary hermit thrush Sang through the holy twilight hush — I heard His voice upon the air.
Page 672 - If among individuals we find little but indifference to this great question, what shall we say to the national and public sentiment ? Immortality, and all that it may mean, is a dead issue in the great movements of the world.
Page 83 - I believe in Michael Angelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
Page 395 - The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. Matter will know itself no longer. 'Imperishable monuments' and 'immortal deeds,' death itself, and love stronger...