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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... land without reprieve . quarry and break stones , others carry loads , fell. worst criminals in the world are here , but many are unfortunate or weak victims of circumstances , main- ly subjects for med- ical treatment and reform . " And ...
... land without reprieve . quarry and break stones , others carry loads , fell. worst criminals in the world are here , but many are unfortunate or weak victims of circumstances , main- ly subjects for med- ical treatment and reform . " And ...
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... land of the Romans . " Then the man bowed down before the prophet , and , kissing the hem of his garment , praised Allah in his name . The man's name was Eyoub Ansari . For many years he bore nobly the stand- ard of Islam . As he was ...
... land of the Romans . " Then the man bowed down before the prophet , and , kissing the hem of his garment , praised Allah in his name . The man's name was Eyoub Ansari . For many years he bore nobly the stand- ard of Islam . As he was ...
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... land or sea ; from it there emerged a girl's slender figure , distin- guished , serious , yet mischievous , of a marvelous , delicate beauty and a yet more marvelous intelligence and sympathy . When he finished , Mrs. Hendry knew per ...
... land or sea ; from it there emerged a girl's slender figure , distin- guished , serious , yet mischievous , of a marvelous , delicate beauty and a yet more marvelous intelligence and sympathy . When he finished , Mrs. Hendry knew per ...
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... land ? -and shall one life , one little life- stand in their way ? Nay ! I give my- self to Hellas ! Slay me ! -pull down the towers of Troy ! This through all time shall be sung of me - this be my glory ! this , child and husband both ...
... land ? -and shall one life , one little life- stand in their way ? Nay ! I give my- self to Hellas ! Slay me ! -pull down the towers of Troy ! This through all time shall be sung of me - this be my glory ! this , child and husband both ...
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... land for a Baptist chapel . Half the village Baptist - lots of land handy - she won't let ' em have a vard . Well , we're having meetings every week , we're sending her resolutions every week , which she puts in the waste - paper basket ...
... land for a Baptist chapel . Half the village Baptist - lots of land handy - she won't let ' em have a vard . Well , we're having meetings every week , we're sending her resolutions every week , which she puts in the waste - paper basket ...
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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...