A Memoir of S. S. Prentiss, Volume 1Scribner, 1861 |
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Pagina 15
... hour or two in rubbing and bathing his torpid limbs ; this she continued to do , as far as her own infirm health would allow , year after year , until one by one they became strong enough to perform their appropriate functions : the ...
... hour or two in rubbing and bathing his torpid limbs ; this she continued to do , as far as her own infirm health would allow , year after year , until one by one they became strong enough to perform their appropriate functions : the ...
Pagina 28
... hours , he read and re - read this book . He almost knew the whole of it by heart . Lem- priere , he used to say , was an invincible weapon for giving interest and effect to a stump speech ; when all other illus trations were powerless ...
... hours , he read and re - read this book . He almost knew the whole of it by heart . Lem- priere , he used to say , was an invincible weapon for giving interest and effect to a stump speech ; when all other illus trations were powerless ...
Pagina 32
... hours , full of gloom and despondency . This was sometimes the case with him ; but his strong common sense , and ... hour , or more , in a speech which astonished us ; I never heard a boy talk as he did that after- noon , before or ...
... hours , full of gloom and despondency . This was sometimes the case with him ; but his strong common sense , and ... hour , or more , in a speech which astonished us ; I never heard a boy talk as he did that after- noon , before or ...
Pagina 36
... hour , that noon of night when thought mounts her zenith with the stars ! -the relative position of the heavenly luminaries , —the ominous forebodings of the celestial signs were portrayed in a grandiloquent style , -the very elements ...
... hour , that noon of night when thought mounts her zenith with the stars ! -the relative position of the heavenly luminaries , —the ominous forebodings of the celestial signs were portrayed in a grandiloquent style , -the very elements ...
Pagina 43
... hours . If it were not for Sir Walter Raleigh's discovery , I should have a most miserable time ; but I find tobacco - smoke an infallible specific against blue - devils , as well as the mosquitoes . I wish , chum , you could contrive ...
... hours . If it were not for Sir Walter Raleigh's discovery , I should have a most miserable time ; but I find tobacco - smoke an infallible specific against blue - devils , as well as the mosquitoes . I wish , chum , you could contrive ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 352 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Pagina 47 - It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all his round surveyed; And still I thought that shattered tower The mightiest work of human power...
Pagina 48 - Of witches' spells, of warriors' arms ; Of patriot battles, won of old By Wallace wight and Bruce the bold ; Of later fields of feud and fight, When, pouring from their Highland height, The Scottish clans, in headlong sway, Had swept the scarlet ranks away.
Pagina 223 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Pagina 352 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Pagina 202 - Bills may originate in either house, and be amended, altered, or rejected by the other ; but no bill shall have the force of a law until, on three several days, it be read in each house, and free discussion be allowed thereon, unless, in case of great emergency, four-fifths of the house in which the bill shall be pending may deem it expedient to dispense with this rule ; and every bill having passed both houses, shall be signed by the speaker and president of their respective houses.
Pagina 189 - State, and the whole number of Representatives shall, at the several periods of making such enumeration, be fixed by the Legislature, and apportioned among the several counties, cities or towns entitled to separate representation, according to the number of free white inhabitants in each, and shall not be less than thirty-six nor more than one hundred ; Provided, however, That each county shall always be entitled to at least one Representative.
Pagina 157 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Pagina 65 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Pagina 24 - Genius plumes his half-fledged wing. From among these laughing children will go forth the men who are to control the destinies of their age and country: the statesman whose wisdom is to guide the Senate — the poet who will take captive the hearts of the people and bind them together with immortal song — the philosopher who, boldly seizing upon the elements themselves, will compel them to his wishes, and, through new combinations of their primal laws, by some great discovery, revolutionize both...