Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 85Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells Harper's Magazine Company, 1892 - Literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... Perhaps their friendship began in child- hood . Perhaps it was a case of that oc- casional propinquity which carries its concealed magic . A story is told of an old lady who expressed no surprise when an intended marriage was announced ...
... Perhaps their friendship began in child- hood . Perhaps it was a case of that oc- casional propinquity which carries its concealed magic . A story is told of an old lady who expressed no surprise when an intended marriage was announced ...
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... Perhaps they were a crew , " said Kane . " I don't know why a reformer should be so grotesque ; but he is , and he is always the easy prey of caricature . I couldn't help feeling to - day how very like the bur- lesque reformers the real ...
... Perhaps they were a crew , " said Kane . " I don't know why a reformer should be so grotesque ; but he is , and he is always the easy prey of caricature . I couldn't help feeling to - day how very like the bur- lesque reformers the real ...
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... perhaps that's why we call her she . But I don't think that , with all her faults , she's quite so bad as Business . In that we seem to have gone to Nature for her defects . Why copy her weakness and bad faith ? Why not study her " Well ...
... perhaps that's why we call her she . But I don't think that , with all her faults , she's quite so bad as Business . In that we seem to have gone to Nature for her defects . Why copy her weakness and bad faith ? Why not study her " Well ...
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... Perhaps that is the youthful point of view now : the healthy , the wealthy , the physically strong , the materially rich . Well , I think ours was better ; pallid and poor in person and in purse as we ima- gined the condition of the ...
... Perhaps that is the youthful point of view now : the healthy , the wealthy , the physically strong , the materially rich . Well , I think ours was better ; pallid and poor in person and in purse as we ima- gined the condition of the ...
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... perhaps as good as any . was acted at Christ's College , Cambridge , in 1566 , and is remarkable , as Mr. Collier pointed out , as the first existing play act- ed before either university . Its author was John Still , afterwards Bishop ...
... perhaps as good as any . was acted at Christ's College , Cambridge , in 1566 , and is remarkable , as Mr. Collier pointed out , as the first existing play act- ed before either university . Its author was John Still , afterwards Bishop ...
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Page 14 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 150 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 80 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life!
Page 417 - Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm, But keep the wolf far thence that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Page 198 - The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints, which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second ; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.
Page 201 - I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates; I'll have them read me strange philosophy And tell the secrets of all foreign kings...
Page 197 - Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Page 201 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...
Page 12 - It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while the law secures equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit.
Page 197 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts. And every sweetness that inspired their hearts. Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all...