The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 56Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1860 |
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... hours , and he left on me a deeper impres- sion , a more durable recollection , than many persons with whom I have spent months and years . He might have been fifty - five years old : he was of middle size , lean , sinewy , and of a ...
... hours , and he left on me a deeper impres- sion , a more durable recollection , than many persons with whom I have spent months and years . He might have been fifty - five years old : he was of middle size , lean , sinewy , and of a ...
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... often seemed to me that the voice of GOD was calling me ; but never like this evening . Now it is too late : we only have a few hours left , and I cannot abandon my post . To - morrow , if I am not shot dead 4 [ July , Captain Garbas .
... often seemed to me that the voice of GOD was calling me ; but never like this evening . Now it is too late : we only have a few hours left , and I cannot abandon my post . To - morrow , if I am not shot dead 4 [ July , Captain Garbas .
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... hour , now and then stopping to seek my way through the coming darkness , when I reached a glade where the last rays of the sun shining through the foliage allowed me to see , hidden under a thick group of beech trees , and built ...
... hour , now and then stopping to seek my way through the coming darkness , when I reached a glade where the last rays of the sun shining through the foliage allowed me to see , hidden under a thick group of beech trees , and built ...
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... hours to me : how- ever , being a herdsman , accustomed to live in the fields , I had pretty well learned to reckon the hours . About three hours after , I thought the sun might be set : I raised myself a little , and found that in ...
... hours to me : how- ever , being a herdsman , accustomed to live in the fields , I had pretty well learned to reckon the hours . About three hours after , I thought the sun might be set : I raised myself a little , and found that in ...
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... hour of need . IV . Slowly the sun sank lower , And the great stream rolling on , Ran yellow as melted amber , As the sunset lights came down . V. The chieftain's breath grew fainter , And dimmer his large black eye , But firm in the ...
... hour of need . IV . Slowly the sun sank lower , And the great stream rolling on , Ran yellow as melted amber , As the sunset lights came down . V. The chieftain's breath grew fainter , And dimmer his large black eye , But firm in the ...
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Page 503 - Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Page 44 - ... screams of children, and the cries of men ; some calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices ; one lamenting his own fate, another that of his family ; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying ; some lifting their hands to the gods ; but, the greater part imagining that the last and eternal night was come, which was to destroy the gods and the world together.
Page 325 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares—- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Page 503 - Gracious is the Lord, and righteous ; yea, our God is merciful. The Lord preserveth the simple : I was brought low, and he helped me.
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Page 53 - Sum up at night what thou hast done by day ; .And in the morning, what thou hast to do. Dress and undress thy soul : mark the decay And growth of it : if with thy watch, that too Be down, then wind up both, since we shall be Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree.
Page 562 - DIRGE. SOFTLY ! She is lying With her lips apart ; Softly ! She is dying of a broken heart. Whisper ! She is going To her final rest ; Whisper ! Life is growing Dim within her breast. Gently ! She is sleeping ; She has breathed her last ! Gently ! While you're weeping, She to heaven has pass'd.
Page 421 - When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.