Gleason's Monthly Companion, Volume 3F. Gleason, 1874 |
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... Give me life and love again ! " " My husband ! mine now forever ! " And with a low murmur of thankfulness , she sank ... give me enough money . " " Yes , I did , " said the youngest ; " you said you would give me ten cents worth for five ...
... Give me life and love again ! " " My husband ! mine now forever ! " And with a low murmur of thankfulness , she sank ... give me enough money . " " Yes , I did , " said the youngest ; " you said you would give me ten cents worth for five ...
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... give you cause for wonder . While in the Holy Land , I beheld in the ranks opposed to me , a Saracen dwarf not over three feet high , who , in spite of his small size , was contending most man- fully . The fancy seized me to take him ...
... give you cause for wonder . While in the Holy Land , I beheld in the ranks opposed to me , a Saracen dwarf not over three feet high , who , in spite of his small size , was contending most man- fully . The fancy seized me to take him ...
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... give him audience . " I am about to do the church good service , " he re- sumed , addressing the abbots , " or , in ... give no other answer , " said the Jew , ob durately . " What I have not , I cannot give , though I were to be torn ...
... give him audience . " I am about to do the church good service , " he re- sumed , addressing the abbots , " or , in ... give no other answer , " said the Jew , ob durately . " What I have not , I cannot give , though I were to be torn ...
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... give to every subscriber to the HOME CIRCLE , free of postage , whether in a premium club or single for 1874 . The Chromo is of very large size , being 15x19 . This splendid production of art was expressly got up for us in Paris , at a ...
... give to every subscriber to the HOME CIRCLE , free of postage , whether in a premium club or single for 1874 . The Chromo is of very large size , being 15x19 . This splendid production of art was expressly got up for us in Paris , at a ...
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... give her happy heart to you . With all its love untold ? The spinning - wheel I've plied with care , And tasked the busy loom ; And piles of white , though homespun cloth , Adorn the old north room . And , Reuben , we must not forget ...
... give her happy heart to you . With all its love untold ? The spinning - wheel I've plied with care , And tasked the busy loom ; And piles of white , though homespun cloth , Adorn the old north room . And , Reuben , we must not forget ...
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Page 228 - BE kind to each other! The night's coming on, When friend and when brother Perchance may be gone ! Then midst our dejection, How sweet to have earned The blest recollection Of kindness — returned!
Page 268 - ... vapour, which deprived him of the power of proceeding, or even calling aloud to their destroyers. He tottered back to where he had left his bride, and sinking down on the earth beside her, felt a horrid sense of despair weigh down his energies, like cowardice. Again he arose, and attempted to force his way through the entrance, and again he was compelled to relinquish the effort. He cried aloud to them — offered to surrender — and entreated that they would at least have mercy on his companion....
Page 95 - A sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action : it is calculation realized ; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice : it is foreseeing consequences, and guarding against them ; it is expecting contingencies and being prepared for them.
Page 238 - ... they must be shown the door directly. 'We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonna, or a Bonaparte. We should not like to be the second Duke of Wellington, nor Charles Dickens, jr. It is a terrible thing, one would say, to a mind of honorable feeling, to be pointed out as somebody's son, or uncle, or granddaughter, as if the excellence were all derived. It must be a little humiliating to reflect that if your...
Page 90 - DUELLING, as a punishment, is absurd ; because it is an equal chance, whether the punishment fall upon the offender, or the person offended. Nor is it much better as a reparation : it being difficult to explain in what the satisfaction consists, or how it tends to undo the injury, or to afford a compensation for the damage already sustained. The truth is, it is not considered as either.
Page 94 - The trees shed their blossoms over our young heads, the flowers on the brink seem to offer themselves to our young hands; we are happy in hope, and we grasp eagerly at the beauties around us — but the stream hurries on, and still our hands are empty. Our course in youth and manhood is along a wider and deeper flood, amid objects more striking and magnificent.
Page 204 - A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and in constant motion without getting on a jot; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything, but sees into nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are he only burns his fingers.
Page 264 - Three figures remained in a group near the door, as if listening for the sounds of pursuit ; while the revellers hurried together like startled fawns, and gazed, with countenances indicative of strong interest or wild alarm, upon the baffled warriors. " Cormac !" cried the Knight, perceiving the bridegroom among the company, " my good fellow, I missed you in an unlucky hour. These English dogs have worried us from our hold, and are still hot upon our scent. I have only time to bid my stout soldiers...
Page 90 - Other animals have neither notion nor ability to act in a similar manner, and therefore swim naturally. When a man falls into deep water, he will rise to the surface, and will continue there if he does not elevate his hands.
Page 144 - Many a child goes astray, not because there is a want of prayer or virtue at home, but simply because home lacks sunshine. A child needs smiles as much as flowers and sunbeams.