Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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... able to get in it without climbing the cor- ner post , till I was ten years old , and the trundle - bed was underneath , and needed no pulling out . O the memory of those trundle- bed days ! How we did sleep then ! We really went to ...
... able to get in it without climbing the cor- ner post , till I was ten years old , and the trundle - bed was underneath , and needed no pulling out . O the memory of those trundle- bed days ! How we did sleep then ! We really went to ...
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... able to veil my thoughts from the barnyard animals . They would interpret my purposes and thwart my plans . There was one cow in the wood lot whose features were very much like Nancy Perkins's , and this cow could tell what I was ...
... able to veil my thoughts from the barnyard animals . They would interpret my purposes and thwart my plans . There was one cow in the wood lot whose features were very much like Nancy Perkins's , and this cow could tell what I was ...
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... able to breathe . I slipped up behind her , snatched it from her hand , and ran with all my might out the road towards the house . I was a hundred yards from the canal before she overtook me ; and then I was ready to make war on Nancy ...
... able to breathe . I slipped up behind her , snatched it from her hand , and ran with all my might out the road towards the house . I was a hundred yards from the canal before she overtook me ; and then I was ready to make war on Nancy ...
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... able to take him . Finally the sheriff reached the purpose to take him by force , and so ordered father and the deputy to get ready . Joe was a physical giant . Lack of mental balance seemed to have its compensation in a most perfectly ...
... able to take him . Finally the sheriff reached the purpose to take him by force , and so ordered father and the deputy to get ready . Joe was a physical giant . Lack of mental balance seemed to have its compensation in a most perfectly ...
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... able sorrow was the expression of every motion of the poor man . But the pallor left his face in a moment . His brain was then in confusion ; and he began an incoherent and senseless jabber that he kept up till he was out of hear- I ...
... able sorrow was the expression of every motion of the poor man . But the pallor left his face in a moment . His brain was then in confusion ; and he began an incoherent and senseless jabber that he kept up till he was out of hear- I ...
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Стр. 239 - A worm ! a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost. At home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast. And wondering at her own. How reason reels . O, what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distressed!
Стр. 11 - Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs ; To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music, lest it should not find An echo in another's mind, While the touch of Nature's art Harmonizes heart to heart.
Стр. 108 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care...
Стр. 213 - Over wide and rushing rivers In his arms he bore the maiden ; Light he thought her as a feather, As the plume upon his head-gear; Cleared the tangled pathway for her, Bent aside the swaying branches, Made at night a lodge of branches, And a bed with boughs of hemlock, And a fire before the doorway With the dry cones of the pine-tree.
Стр. 213 - Pleasant was the journey homeward Through interminable forests, Over meadow, over mountain, Over river, hill, and hollow. Short it seemed to Hiawatha, Though they journeyed very slowly, Though his pace he checked and slackened To the steps of Laughing Water.
Стр. 69 - God abhorr'd, with violence rude to break The thread of life, ere half its length was run, And rob a wretched brother of his being. With joy Ambition saw, and soon improved The execrable deed.
Стр. 94 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go...
Стр. 88 - My name is Norval : on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home.
Стр. 132 - The heavens declare the glory of God : and the firmament sheweth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Стр. 69 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.