Littell's Living Age, Volum 228Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1901 |
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Side 14
... tion ; and it is , therefore , startling to learn that the automatic machine is one of the oldest projects in everyday use , since it was known a century before Christ , being the invention of that great mathematician , Hero of Alexan ...
... tion ; and it is , therefore , startling to learn that the automatic machine is one of the oldest projects in everyday use , since it was known a century before Christ , being the invention of that great mathematician , Hero of Alexan ...
Side 23
... tion has been gradually modified . war of reprisals is no longer the obses- sion of every day and the incubus of every night . Thirty years have gone by , and the remembrance of German cannon pointed against Paris is fading away . There ...
... tion has been gradually modified . war of reprisals is no longer the obses- sion of every day and the incubus of every night . Thirty years have gone by , and the remembrance of German cannon pointed against Paris is fading away . There ...
Side 34
... tion , and in another day or two we should doubtless have had the place safe . The enemy , therefore , made an attack next day , Sunday , June 24 , about 10 A.M. Again they were tempt- ed by a favorable westerly breeze , and again the ...
... tion , and in another day or two we should doubtless have had the place safe . The enemy , therefore , made an attack next day , Sunday , June 24 , about 10 A.M. Again they were tempt- ed by a favorable westerly breeze , and again the ...
Side 35
... tion was cleared by the burning of the Hanlin . Straight in front , in full view , was the roof of the students ' quarters , and behind that , amidst the trees of the Legation , were the chimneys of the different houses clearly visible ...
... tion was cleared by the burning of the Hanlin . Straight in front , in full view , was the roof of the students ' quarters , and behind that , amidst the trees of the Legation , were the chimneys of the different houses clearly visible ...
Side 37
... tion in that place , retired before their fire , and if they had rushed in they would not only have met with no re- sistance , but would have taken the British in the rear and cut off their re- treat . However , they were afraid . This ...
... tion in that place , retired before their fire , and if they had rushed in they would not only have met with no re- sistance , but would have taken the British in the rear and cut off their re- treat . However , they were afraid . This ...
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Side 718 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Side 350 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Side 149 - What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one arise — we come, we come!
Side 145 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms— the day Battle's magnificently stern array!
Side 149 - Shall never more be thine. The silence of that dreamless sleep I envy now too much to weep ; Nor need I to repine That all those charms have passed away ; I might have watch'd through long decay.
Side 458 - An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.
Side 409 - Taint in poetry, is it ?" interposed his father. " No, no/' replied Sam. " Wery glad to hear it," said Mr. Weller. " Poetry's unnat'ral ; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin...
Side 150 - The triumph, and the vanity, The rapture of the strife — The earthquake voice of Victory, To thee the breath of life; The sword, the scepter, and that sway Which man seem'd made but to obey Wherewith renown was rife — All quell'd!
Side 468 - Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
Side 149 - The natural music of the mountain reed — For here the patriarchal days are not A pastoral fable — pipes in the liberal air, Mixed with the sweet bells of the sauntering herd; My soul would drink those echoes.