Littell's Living Age, Volum 55Living Age Company Incorporated, 1857 |
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Side 29
... seemed to nurse her as if she liked it . Henceforth Agnes had not to live in a state of moral starvation . The old lady treated her like a human being , and really felt an interest in her . She asked her ques- tions about home , and ...
... seemed to nurse her as if she liked it . Henceforth Agnes had not to live in a state of moral starvation . The old lady treated her like a human being , and really felt an interest in her . She asked her ques- tions about home , and ...
Side 32
... seemed little less than super- natural . The medical man remained in attendance the rest of the night ; but no change for the better took place . Madame Tremordyn lay still speechless , distorted . yet not altogether insensible , as ...
... seemed little less than super- natural . The medical man remained in attendance the rest of the night ; but no change for the better took place . Madame Tremordyn lay still speechless , distorted . yet not altogether insensible , as ...
Side 33
... seemed quite rational and collected , and entreated her to take him away as it drove him mad to be there . The physician spoke , but Achille did not heed him . He kept his eyes fixed on Agnes , with a look of touching entreaty . Agnes ...
... seemed quite rational and collected , and entreated her to take him away as it drove him mad to be there . The physician spoke , but Achille did not heed him . He kept his eyes fixed on Agnes , with a look of touching entreaty . Agnes ...
Side 34
... seemed by mon sense and friendship could suggest . superhuman effort , to control all outward Agnes was immovable . Her sole reply was , manifestations of his madness . His delusions " He will never get well there ; if he comes were as ...
... seemed by mon sense and friendship could suggest . superhuman effort , to control all outward Agnes was immovable . Her sole reply was , manifestations of his madness . His delusions " He will never get well there ; if he comes were as ...
Side 36
... seemed to find so delightful . How poor -the sweeter the sadder ; and although it and vapid sounded the conversation of the is a morbid , unmanly feeling , which I have passer - by ; how strained the efforts at wit ; striven hard to ...
... seemed to find so delightful . How poor -the sweeter the sadder ; and although it and vapid sounded the conversation of the is a morbid , unmanly feeling , which I have passer - by ; how strained the efforts at wit ; striven hard to ...
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Side 5 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Side 140 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Side 6 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Side 242 - I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon-time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around, and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoes. If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled...
Side 390 - I asked the next (Emily, afterwards Ellis Bell), what I had best do with her brother Branwell, who was sometimes a naughty boy ; she answered, ' Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him.
Side 192 - But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover...
Side 3 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Side 18 - THE WRITINGS OF FULLER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN. THE writings of Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason ; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most occasions it would have been going out of his way to have expressed himself out of them.
Side 192 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Side 304 - The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra ; but am I not 4 They poisoned Pope Ganganelli.