Hurry-graphs; Or, Sketches of Scenery, Celebrities and Society, Taken from LifeC. Scribner, 1851 - 364 pages |
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... allowance should be made , perhaps , for the journalist who thus takes topics as they come , and writes without the advantage of prepared taste or pre- vious attention . b 1 One extraneous value may attach to these sketches .
... allowance should be made , perhaps , for the journalist who thus takes topics as they come , and writes without the advantage of prepared taste or pre- vious attention . b 1 One extraneous value may attach to these sketches .
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... took occasion to compli- ment very gracefully upon her felicitous representation of the ladies of the Pilgrim stock at the proudest Court of Europe . 1 # 1 LOOKS OF BOSTONIANS . 3 Perhaps it would interest 2 HURRY - GRAPHS .
... took occasion to compli- ment very gracefully upon her felicitous representation of the ladies of the Pilgrim stock at the proudest Court of Europe . 1 # 1 LOOKS OF BOSTONIANS . 3 Perhaps it would interest 2 HURRY - GRAPHS .
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Nathaniel Parker Willis. 1 LOOKS OF BOSTONIANS . 3 Perhaps it would interest our female readers to add , that the elder Quincy , who was also present , made a speech in which he tartly called the principal orators to order , they ( Mr ...
Nathaniel Parker Willis. 1 LOOKS OF BOSTONIANS . 3 Perhaps it would interest our female readers to add , that the elder Quincy , who was also present , made a speech in which he tartly called the principal orators to order , they ( Mr ...
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... perhaps , in antagonism and passionate violence , and we might have had a mob - swaying politician , blind with headlong impulses and intoxicated with his power . It is in his consistent and proportionate endowment that his great- ness ...
... perhaps , in antagonism and passionate violence , and we might have had a mob - swaying politician , blind with headlong impulses and intoxicated with his power . It is in his consistent and proportionate endowment that his great- ness ...
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... perhaps half an hour in our time of arrival - a tax upon transient passengers for the benefit of regular customers on the road , which is , no doubt , politic enough in the stage proprietor , but which , like most other arrangements of ...
... perhaps half an hour in our time of arrival - a tax upon transient passengers for the benefit of regular customers on the road , which is , no doubt , politic enough in the stage proprietor , but which , like most other arrangements of ...
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Page 117 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 118 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 116 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I...
Page 155 - In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my ANNABEL LEE. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we — Of many far wiser than we — And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE : For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE ; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright...
Page 152 - This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it. The poet was known, personally or by reputation, in all this country; he had readers in England, and in several of the states of Continental Europe ; but he...
Page 31 - Tell me, ye naturalists, who sounded the first march and retreat to the tide, Hither shalt thou come, and no further ? Why doth not the water recover his right over the earth, being higher in nature ? Whence came the salt, and who first boiled it, which made so much brine ? When the winds are not only wild in a storm, but even stark mad in a hurricane...
Page 155 - In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee ; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 117 - But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, They were all struck for thee!
Page 109 - It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no. In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some moneyed corporation, or some dangler who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody.
Page 155 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Anabel Lee: For the moon never beams, without...