Harper's Magazine, Volume 127Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1913 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... half - century ago . - Cayenne - red pepper to the world at large , hell to the few thousands of convicts transported to this isolated , northeastern corner of equatorial South America . Here , it was rumored , existed one of the ...
... half - century ago . - Cayenne - red pepper to the world at large , hell to the few thousands of convicts transported to this isolated , northeastern corner of equatorial South America . Here , it was rumored , existed one of the ...
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... half into the forest . The motor power was an Arab and negro , accompanied by another relégué named Filipe , an intelligent man , foreman of the chantiers , who carried a drawn ma- chete . There were three of us and three relégués ; one ...
... half into the forest . The motor power was an Arab and negro , accompanied by another relégué named Filipe , an intelligent man , foreman of the chantiers , who carried a drawn ma- chete . There were three of us and three relégués ; one ...
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... half contemptuous , half dreamy . It was a figure wholly out of keeping - in spite of its conformity in dress - with the splendid opera - house and the bejeweled crowd which filled it . In some symbolic group of modern statuary it might ...
... half contemptuous , half dreamy . It was a figure wholly out of keeping - in spite of its conformity in dress - with the splendid opera - house and the bejeweled crowd which filled it . In some symbolic group of modern statuary it might ...
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... half - brothers , and notably he killed his half - brother Don Fadrique in the Alcazar . That is , if he had no hand in the butchery himself he had him killed after luring him to Seville for the tourna- ments and forgiving him for all ...
... half - brothers , and notably he killed his half - brother Don Fadrique in the Alcazar . That is , if he had no hand in the butchery himself he had him killed after luring him to Seville for the tourna- ments and forgiving him for all ...
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... half - whisper . a half - whisper . " It wouldn't do any good . Willem and Jan don't speak to each other now . They quarreled so bit- terly last Christmas that they'll never speak to each other again . " " Quarreled ! Over what ...
... half - whisper . a half - whisper . " It wouldn't do any good . Willem and Jan don't speak to each other now . They quarreled so bit- terly last Christmas that they'll never speak to each other again . " " Quarreled ! Over what ...
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Page 341 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 456 - We have met the enemy, and they are ours : two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop.
Page 274 - There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives, derived from substantives, the termination of participles ; such as the cultured plain, the daisied bank ; but I was sorry to see, in the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied spring.
Page 741 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 138 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm — A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form.
Page 743 - Not then a Slave for twice two Year. My Cloaths were fashionably new, Nor were my Shifts of Linnen Blue; But things are changed, now at the Hoe, I daily work, and Bare-foot go, In weeding Corn or feeding Swine, I spend my melancholy Time.
Page 526 - Like a bad woman, she has tasted blood There'll be no trusting in her any more.' We thought it truth, and when we saw her there Lying in dock, beyond, across the stream, We would forget that we had called her fair, We thought her murderess and the past a dream. And when she sailed again, we watched in awe, Wondering what bloody act her beauty planned, What evil lurked behind the thing we saw, What strength was there that thus annulled man's hand, How next its triumph would compel man's will Into...
Page 528 - prepares these things ; ' Those are her bells, the Wanderer is there.' So, hurrying to the hedge and looking down, I saw a mighty bay's wind-crinkled blue Ruffling the image of a tranquil town, With lapsing waters glittering as they grew.
Page 741 - the great number of felons and other desperate villains sent hither from the several prisons of England," and adds that through such imports "we are believed to be a place only fit to receive such base and lewd persons.
Page 452 - ... colors flying, made an imposing appearance. They were six in number,2 and bore sixty-three carriage-guns, one on a pivot, two swivels, and four howitzers. Perry's squadron numbered nine vessels, and bore fifty-four carriage-guns and two swivels.3 Barclay had thirty-five long guns to Perry's fifteen, and possessed greatly the advantage in action at a distance. In close action, the weight of metal was with the Americans, and for that reason Perry had resolved to close upon the enemy at once. The...