Gleason's Monthly Companion, Volume 3F. Gleason, 1874 |
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Page 33
... entered the enclosure , leav- ing his horse to crop the grass and tufts of white cover blossoms that grew by the wall . " Bessy , " said he , taking her hand in his , " this is the place , above all others , where I should have chosen ...
... entered the enclosure , leav- ing his horse to crop the grass and tufts of white cover blossoms that grew by the wall . " Bessy , " said he , taking her hand in his , " this is the place , above all others , where I should have chosen ...
Page 42
... entered the room and seated herself on a couch at the other end . But when Tom came and sat by her , and took her hand in his and spoke to her so kindly and so affec . tionately , Nina turned deadly pale and trembled in every limb ...
... entered the room and seated herself on a couch at the other end . But when Tom came and sat by her , and took her hand in his and spoke to her so kindly and so affec . tionately , Nina turned deadly pale and trembled in every limb ...
Page 43
... entered the room unobserved by its excited occu- pants , and had heard the greater part of Tom's very unexpected proposal . When Nina looked up , her mother had in some measure recovered her surprise , and taking Aunt Stratelace's arm ...
... entered the room unobserved by its excited occu- pants , and had heard the greater part of Tom's very unexpected proposal . When Nina looked up , her mother had in some measure recovered her surprise , and taking Aunt Stratelace's arm ...
Page 52
... entered into his life , mastering it in so short a time , he had in the past years felt one constant , over- powering yearning , for some dear heart to lean upon , and mingle its sweet with his own life . Nev- er knowing a father's or ...
... entered into his life , mastering it in so short a time , he had in the past years felt one constant , over- powering yearning , for some dear heart to lean upon , and mingle its sweet with his own life . Nev- er knowing a father's or ...
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... entered a large , handsome hall , with a colonnade of white marble , an : a tessellated pavement . In this apartment were received trades- men and visitors of inferior rank , who were not permitted to approach the centre of the room ...
... entered a large , handsome hall , with a colonnade of white marble , an : a tessellated pavement . In this apartment were received trades- men and visitors of inferior rank , who were not permitted to approach the centre of the room ...
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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.