Gleason's Monthly Companion, Volume 3F. Gleason, 1874 |
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... standing erect , he could without difficulty touch the floor with the end of his long fingers . His hair , parted in the middle , hung down in long elfin locks by the side of a countenance whose swarthy hue clearly indicated his ...
... standing erect , he could without difficulty touch the floor with the end of his long fingers . His hair , parted in the middle , hung down in long elfin locks by the side of a countenance whose swarthy hue clearly indicated his ...
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... standing on the brink , with such fearful force that , entirely unable to recover himself , he fell down with a cry of mingled rage and apprehen- sion , endeavoring vainly to arrest his descent by clutching at the sides of the aperture ...
... standing on the brink , with such fearful force that , entirely unable to recover himself , he fell down with a cry of mingled rage and apprehen- sion , endeavoring vainly to arrest his descent by clutching at the sides of the aperture ...
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... standing there , or his black horse pawing at the gate . " Things went on in this way some time , and one day Maria told me , very confidentially , that they were to be married in four weeks . She drew a deep sigh as she told me this ...
... standing there , or his black horse pawing at the gate . " Things went on in this way some time , and one day Maria told me , very confidentially , that they were to be married in four weeks . She drew a deep sigh as she told me this ...
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... standing at the window one evening , won- dering how Charles Grover would bear the tidings of her marriage , and if no remorse of conscience visited her midnight pillow , when I felt a hand laid lightly upon my arm , and turning , saw ...
... standing at the window one evening , won- dering how Charles Grover would bear the tidings of her marriage , and if no remorse of conscience visited her midnight pillow , when I felt a hand laid lightly upon my arm , and turning , saw ...
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... standing at the mirror , arrayed in a dress of snowy mustin , with a wreath of orange blossoms in her hair . She came forward and threw herself in my arms . " Maria , what does this mean ? " I asked . " Can you not guess ? ' she ...
... standing at the mirror , arrayed in a dress of snowy mustin , with a wreath of orange blossoms in her hair . She came forward and threw herself in my arms . " Maria , what does this mean ? " I asked . " Can you not guess ? ' she ...
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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.