The Lamp: A Review and Record of Current Literature, Volume 29Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904 |
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... delightfully one who has been to California knows that you have but to cross the bay to find the climate much modified . The fogs lose something of their chill even no farther away than Berkeley or Oakland . It was immediately after his ...
... delightfully one who has been to California knows that you have but to cross the bay to find the climate much modified . The fogs lose something of their chill even no farther away than Berkeley or Oakland . It was immediately after his ...
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... delightful volumes of travel it is brim - full of human interest , always cheerful in spite of discourag- ing lack of comforts , and permeated with the charm of his personality . Saint Helena or Silverado yet bars . the progress of the ...
... delightful volumes of travel it is brim - full of human interest , always cheerful in spite of discourag- ing lack of comforts , and permeated with the charm of his personality . Saint Helena or Silverado yet bars . the progress of the ...
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... delightful drive from the heart of Paris out through the Bois de Boulogne to Boulogne - sur- Seine brought us to ... delightfully cool and pleasant under the trees of the garden , we did not enter the house , but after a time Vierge ...
... delightful drive from the heart of Paris out through the Bois de Boulogne to Boulogne - sur- Seine brought us to ... delightfully cool and pleasant under the trees of the garden , we did not enter the house , but after a time Vierge ...
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... delightful short story from the sword play and love making through which Ralph Tarrant of Virginia over- throws that machine - made villain Sir Richard Keightley and wins the beau- tiful Lady Anne Bevis , but he has chosen to pad the ...
... delightful short story from the sword play and love making through which Ralph Tarrant of Virginia over- throws that machine - made villain Sir Richard Keightley and wins the beau- tiful Lady Anne Bevis , but he has chosen to pad the ...
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... delightful in snatches , with glints of wholesome humor , shrewd com- mon sense , quick wit and warm sym- pathy ; but it does not cohere as the seriousness of its theme would imply and " The Woman Errant " seems a very inconsequent ...
... delightful in snatches , with glints of wholesome humor , shrewd com- mon sense , quick wit and warm sym- pathy ; but it does not cohere as the seriousness of its theme would imply and " The Woman Errant " seems a very inconsequent ...
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Página 205 - JENNY kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.
Página 98 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
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.