American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 59Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1862 |
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Nay , shake not your head so gloomily , but arouse ; and do you , too , thank God that you are brought for a while to this stand - still , as the world rushes on and leaves you .
Nay , shake not your head so gloomily , but arouse ; and do you , too , thank God that you are brought for a while to this stand - still , as the world rushes on and leaves you .
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There once waved trees with blossoms That the winds shook o'er my head , Or carried off on their soft , swift wings , To drop on a clover - bed . And there once was a deep , rich fringing , Of dark , green grass , all the way ; But the ...
There once waved trees with blossoms That the winds shook o'er my head , Or carried off on their soft , swift wings , To drop on a clover - bed . And there once was a deep , rich fringing , Of dark , green grass , all the way ; But the ...
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When the disease seizes on the tender , unsophisticated and untutored squaw , over whose unkempt head a cycle of the moon has scarcely passed , to use a phrase which we đo not remember to have read or to have heard before , she squats ...
When the disease seizes on the tender , unsophisticated and untutored squaw , over whose unkempt head a cycle of the moon has scarcely passed , to use a phrase which we đo not remember to have read or to have heard before , she squats ...
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... his ample chest he covers with dazzling tin medallions ; his neck he extravagantly encircles with vari - hued beads of glass , and his head he bedecks with the dyed plumage of the falcon of the plains , a defunct buzzard .
... his ample chest he covers with dazzling tin medallions ; his neck he extravagantly encircles with vari - hued beads of glass , and his head he bedecks with the dyed plumage of the falcon of the plains , a defunct buzzard .
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... that amber gem of the orient , that saffron incarnation of Cupid , that juvenile impostor , that emphatically played - out ' Yeddonian , who is pictured in every conceivable and possible attitude , except standing on his head .
... that amber gem of the orient , that saffron incarnation of Cupid , that juvenile impostor , that emphatically played - out ' Yeddonian , who is pictured in every conceivable and possible attitude , except standing on his head .
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| Title | American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 59 |
| Editors | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew |
| Published | 1862 |
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