The Lamp: A Review and Record of Current Literature, Volume 29Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904 |
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... appear ab- solutely incredible , and yet , by relying merely on the dry details of legal docu- ments printed in State Registers , the story is as lurid as a shilling shocker . The Gordons as a family altogether have been so full of high ...
... appear ab- solutely incredible , and yet , by relying merely on the dry details of legal docu- ments printed in State Registers , the story is as lurid as a shilling shocker . The Gordons as a family altogether have been so full of high ...
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... appear that below this drum there was a cubical base which also had its faces sculptured . This strik- ing peculiarity of sculpturing the lowest drum seems to have been inherited from the older temple on the same spot which was burned ...
... appear that below this drum there was a cubical base which also had its faces sculptured . This strik- ing peculiarity of sculpturing the lowest drum seems to have been inherited from the older temple on the same spot which was burned ...
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... appears to have been one of the Ionic philoso- phers , whose speculations it is so hard for us to comprehend , who strove honest- ly and earnestly to get at the heart of things , and found it in some physical element as water , air ...
... appears to have been one of the Ionic philoso- phers , whose speculations it is so hard for us to comprehend , who strove honest- ly and earnestly to get at the heart of things , and found it in some physical element as water , air ...
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... appear they will only serve to increase his fame . Going over the proofs of them , I have marvelled that an artist situated as he was could have had the courage to embark upon such an enterprise , to say nothing of seeing it through ...
... appear they will only serve to increase his fame . Going over the proofs of them , I have marvelled that an artist situated as he was could have had the courage to embark upon such an enterprise , to say nothing of seeing it through ...
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... appears to be a portly dame seated and holding a wreath in her hands . The abbreviations which accompany the picture and text are interpreted to mean : " I , Ugucc- ione Bambaglioli , wrote , designed and rubricated this on such and ...
... appears to be a portly dame seated and holding a wreath in her hands . The abbreviations which accompany the picture and text are interpreted to mean : " I , Ugucc- ione Bambaglioli , wrote , designed and rubricated this on such and ...
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Página 414 - Take heed of an unactive vain spirit ! Recreate yourself with Sir Walter Raleigh's History : it's a Body of History ; and will add much more to your understanding than fragments of Story.
Página 22 - An old looking-glass. Somebody finds out the secret of making all the images that have been reflected in it pass back again across its surface.
Página 36 - I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works, and to the remembrance of my friends upon their experience of me in addition...
Página 209 - If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not...
Página 253 - OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND THEIR MAKERS. Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the different Styles of Clocks and Watches of the Past in England and Abroad, to which is added a List of 10,000 Makers.
Página 21 - A person to be writing a tale, and to find that it shapes itself against his intentions ; that the characters act otherwise than he thought ; that unforeseen events occur ; and a catastrophe comes which he strives in vain to avert.
Página 504 - ... dealing with the Ohio River in the Revolution, the rise of the cities of Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and Louisville, the fighting Virginians, the old-time methods of navigation, etc. "A wonderfully comprehensive and entirely fascinating book.