The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volumen11Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1838 |
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... look for a lady who could make good puddings and pies . If she understands the latter art , ' he added , ' I can excuse her ignorance of German ; and I am not sure but I could overlook some little faults of temper . ' I thought the man ...
... look for a lady who could make good puddings and pies . If she understands the latter art , ' he added , ' I can excuse her ignorance of German ; and I am not sure but I could overlook some little faults of temper . ' I thought the man ...
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... look around us . We were in the heart of a most luxuriant state , with an abundance of wild land , which seemed to say , ' Come and plant me , and your labor will be rewarded an hundred fold . ' Here we met with a settler , who was ...
... look around us . We were in the heart of a most luxuriant state , with an abundance of wild land , which seemed to say , ' Come and plant me , and your labor will be rewarded an hundred fold . ' Here we met with a settler , who was ...
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... look after . I am gratified to observe that Walter is regarded by them with much consideration . He possesses a vast amount of general infor- mation , which is highly valuable ; and his wife is looked upon as a very fine lady . Perhaps ...
... look after . I am gratified to observe that Walter is regarded by them with much consideration . He possesses a vast amount of general infor- mation , which is highly valuable ; and his wife is looked upon as a very fine lady . Perhaps ...
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... look back to the years spent in acquiring that knowledge , as the saddest in my life ; and those who undertook my guardianship , with the best intentions , I doubt not , succeeded in making me tho- roughly uncomfortable . If I live , I ...
... look back to the years spent in acquiring that knowledge , as the saddest in my life ; and those who undertook my guardianship , with the best intentions , I doubt not , succeeded in making me tho- roughly uncomfortable . If I live , I ...
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... Look at the sums I have already furnished ! There they are , all set down in a column , and figured up ; a very pretty interest , truly ! And now you are so un- conscionable , as to ask for fifty dollars more , all at once ! Why , you ...
... Look at the sums I have already furnished ! There they are , all set down in a column , and figured up ; a very pretty interest , truly ! And now you are so un- conscionable , as to ask for fifty dollars more , all at once ! Why , you ...
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Página 60 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf ning clamors in the slippery clouds...
Página 396 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Página 117 - I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Página 213 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Página 561 - ... suckled and nursed them; she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected; all dressed in red; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain; and fed there till wanted.
Página 213 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them...
Página 514 - The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And all thine embryo vastness, at a gulp. But Fate thy growth decreed: autumnal rains Beneath thy parent tree mellow'd the soil Design'd thy cradle, and a skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe, prepar'd The soft receptacle, in which, secure, Thy rudiments should sleep the winter through.
Página 229 - And unto this he frames his song; Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little actor cons another part; Filling from time to time his 'humorous stage...
Página 398 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Página 110 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.