Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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... better literary material for any people is not an import . Charles Dickens taught the English - speaking world that there is a never - ending supply of it in the manners and habits and lives of the common people . In the preparation of ...
... better literary material for any people is not an import . Charles Dickens taught the English - speaking world that there is a never - ending supply of it in the manners and habits and lives of the common people . In the preparation of ...
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... better . In another corner of this room was an im- provised bedstead , built into the walls by the man who built the house . In the remaining corner was the only piece of pretentious furni- ture in 28 LIFE ON A BACKWOODS FARM .
... better . In another corner of this room was an im- provised bedstead , built into the walls by the man who built the house . In the remaining corner was the only piece of pretentious furni- ture in 28 LIFE ON A BACKWOODS FARM .
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... better than bread . I dare not touch it . O I dare not touch it . I do not keep it about me . So I say I was abused . I was sinned against through the ignorance of an old maid , who ought to have been better endowed . A new - born baby ...
... better than bread . I dare not touch it . O I dare not touch it . I do not keep it about me . So I say I was abused . I was sinned against through the ignorance of an old maid , who ought to have been better endowed . A new - born baby ...
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... better on less work than any one in the country . Father had a coal - mine ; and it was agreed that the coal- mine was a suitable place for Shalem to work . It suited his complexion . Shalem's two boys were my first playmates . They ...
... better on less work than any one in the country . Father had a coal - mine ; and it was agreed that the coal- mine was a suitable place for Shalem to work . It suited his complexion . Shalem's two boys were my first playmates . They ...
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... better than anybody else ? " " We are blacker and more beautiful ; God is a black man with curly hair . " " How did God make you black ? " " He took black off of a log like this , and rubbed it on us ; and we can black you with that log ...
... better than anybody else ? " " We are blacker and more beautiful ; God is a black man with curly hair . " " How did God make you black ? " " He took black off of a log like this , and rubbed it on us ; and we can black you with that log ...
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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.