American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 59Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1862 |
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Alas ! what an unhappy thought that you know not yourself ; that you should be always journeying on with a stranger ; yourself a stranger , and you a stranger to yourself ; an awful companionship . Great God ! what if you be destined to ...
Alas ! what an unhappy thought that you know not yourself ; that you should be always journeying on with a stranger ; yourself a stranger , and you a stranger to yourself ; an awful companionship . Great God ! what if you be destined to ...
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Perhaps with Confound such thoughts ; am I a fool ?? quoth I. But the thoughts would I took down a book from one of the shelves — ' Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy . I opened it , but could not read .
Perhaps with Confound such thoughts ; am I a fool ?? quoth I. But the thoughts would I took down a book from one of the shelves — ' Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy . I opened it , but could not read .
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Ah ! ' thought I , ' I will leave this place and never return . ' I stepped toward the door , and stumbled over something in my path . Imagine my horror - it was the body of a man . I rushed frantically from the room .
Ah ! ' thought I , ' I will leave this place and never return . ' I stepped toward the door , and stumbled over something in my path . Imagine my horror - it was the body of a man . I rushed frantically from the room .
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In our literature and art , like the barbarians of all ages , we destroy in memory of the dead the riches which would make the living happy , but console ourselves , amid rags and misery , with the sorely proud thought that it was such ...
In our literature and art , like the barbarians of all ages , we destroy in memory of the dead the riches which would make the living happy , but console ourselves , amid rags and misery , with the sorely proud thought that it was such ...
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In the humbler walks of literature , which indicate most nearly and accurately the tendencies of our people when their thoughts aspire to artistic expression , this affectation , or reality , of dumps and desolation , is copiously ...
In the humbler walks of literature , which indicate most nearly and accurately the tendencies of our people when their thoughts aspire to artistic expression , this affectation , or reality , of dumps and desolation , is copiously ...
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