Littell's Living Age, Volum 228Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1901 |
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Side 26
... took a strong atti- tude , ordered up the guards , and in- formed the Chinese Government that they would come peaceably if possible ; by force if peaceable entrance was de- nied them . The consequence was that after two days ' shuffling ...
... took a strong atti- tude , ordered up the guards , and in- formed the Chinese Government that they would come peaceably if possible ; by force if peaceable entrance was de- nied them . The consequence was that after two days ' shuffling ...
Side 31
... took refuge in the Le- gation we were ordered to carry with us provisions for a fortnight , the long- est time which it was conceived possi- ble that the siege could last before re- lief arrived from Tientsin . Thus each new arrival ...
... took refuge in the Le- gation we were ordered to carry with us provisions for a fortnight , the long- est time which it was conceived possi- ble that the siege could last before re- lief arrived from Tientsin . Thus each new arrival ...
Side 35
... took the trouble to ascend the gate tower , another fifty feet , one would have a bird's - eye view of the whole city . From that position the enemy could have shelled us in perfect security , for their barricades facing the American ...
... took the trouble to ascend the gate tower , another fifty feet , one would have a bird's - eye view of the whole city . From that position the enemy could have shelled us in perfect security , for their barricades facing the American ...
Side 42
A PARISIAN HOUSEHOLD . * BY PAUL BOURGET . The if you took a few days longer . " VII . THE DECISION . Charles Huguenin's remorse did not deceive him . His cousin's flight from him at that moment was not the result of a lovers ' quarrel ...
A PARISIAN HOUSEHOLD . * BY PAUL BOURGET . The if you took a few days longer . " VII . THE DECISION . Charles Huguenin's remorse did not deceive him . His cousin's flight from him at that moment was not the result of a lovers ' quarrel ...
Side 46
The if you took a few days longer . " shrewd woman was but too certain of Reine's answer . She merely shook her head and replied firmly : " What good would it do ? You said yourself , mam- ma , the sooner the better- " Never did father ...
The if you took a few days longer . " shrewd woman was but too certain of Reine's answer . She merely shook her head and replied firmly : " What good would it do ? You said yourself , mam- ma , the sooner the better- " Never did father ...
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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.