LADY STUTFIELD. There is nothing, nothing like the beauty of home- life, is there? KELVIL. It is t...
2011-12-03
takes it up and looks at envelope.] What a curious handwriting! It reminds me of the handwriting of...
FIRST OF NOVEMBER, - the Earthquake-day. - There are traces of age in the one-hoss-shay. A general...
FIFTY CENTS was to be considered a rhetorical embellishment, and by no means a literal expression o...
Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three o...
I looked upon her tranquil face, gradually regaining a cheerfulness which was often sprightly, as s...
first time. Provincialism has no SCALE of excellence in man or vegetable; it never knows a first-ra...
the rate at which it grew. For five or six years the rate was slow, - then rapid for twenty years. ...
kills their mortal frames and drives out the immortal tenants. Men sicken of houses until at last t...
There is another kind of application to which editors, or those supposed to have access to them, ar...
There are songs all written out in my soul, which I could read, if the flash might pass through the...
This person, Richards, was offered then Eight score pounds, but would have ten; Nine, I think, was...
The maid of Egypt's dusky glow, And dream that Youth and Age embrace, As April violets fill with s...
within that the pulsating lullaby of the evening crickets used to make itself most distinctly heard...
if your blood wants rousing, turn round that stake in the river, which you see a mile from here; an...