Littell's Living Age, Volume 286Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1915 - Literature |
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... young people were well pleased to meet again . Somewhat out of breath from their rapid upward flight , Pomm and Mary- vonne gladly sank on to one of the welcoming divans to which Pierre pointed . Maryvonne was slightly flushed , but ...
... young people were well pleased to meet again . Somewhat out of breath from their rapid upward flight , Pomm and Mary- vonne gladly sank on to one of the welcoming divans to which Pierre pointed . Maryvonne was slightly flushed , but ...
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... young artist could not have said whether the exclamation was intended to express admiration of the sculpture or stupefaction at the young man's audacity . " We noticed this at the Salon three years ago , " pursued Pomm speaking to ...
... young artist could not have said whether the exclamation was intended to express admiration of the sculpture or stupefaction at the young man's audacity . " We noticed this at the Salon three years ago , " pursued Pomm speaking to ...
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... young man's ardent gaze she quickly lowered her eyes once more . " What have you to say to me , Mon- sieur ? " asked Pierre humbly of Pomm . " I refused to sell the figure because it was a portrait - although an uncommis- sioned one ...
... young man's ardent gaze she quickly lowered her eyes once more . " What have you to say to me , Mon- sieur ? " asked Pierre humbly of Pomm . " I refused to sell the figure because it was a portrait - although an uncommis- sioned one ...
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... young man was be- side himself with joy . After having shown all his works to his two guests and explained his new inspiration to them , Pierre sug- gested that they should sit down and have their cold supper . " I must beg you to ...
... young man was be- side himself with joy . After having shown all his works to his two guests and explained his new inspiration to them , Pierre sug- gested that they should sit down and have their cold supper . " I must beg you to ...
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... young women of your age do . So I am told . " He smiled down on her , and she answered his smile , but made no an- swer enjoining him to proceed . " Now , " continued Pomm , " I wonder , if you were to fall in love - as so many young ...
... young women of your age do . So I am told . " He smiled down on her , and she answered his smile , but made no an- swer enjoining him to proceed . " Now , " continued Pomm , " I wonder , if you were to fall in love - as so many young ...
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Page 444 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer; 'Piper, pipe that song again.
Page 444 - I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not...
Page 108 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Page 600 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Page 401 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 388 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Page 297 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Page 607 - March would constitute, were its provisions to be actually carried into effect as they stand, a practical assertion of unlimited belligerent rights over neutral commerce within the whole European area, and an almost unqualified denial of the sovereign rights of the nations now at peace.
Page 444 - Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped: he wept to hear. "Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read.
Page 6 - No. 100, of 1863 (Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field), and to have been decided in favor of the permanency of these regulations.