Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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... poor , and clothing is scant , and food is of little variety and ill - prepared , the chances are against any born child coming to maturity . Those who do make the riffle are likely to pos- 16 LIFE ON A BACKWOODS FAPM .
... poor , and clothing is scant , and food is of little variety and ill - prepared , the chances are against any born child coming to maturity . Those who do make the riffle are likely to pos- 16 LIFE ON A BACKWOODS FAPM .
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... coming up to the foot of the knoll like the arm of a great sea , and opening to the eye a stretch of vision for more than twenty miles , with only an occasional tree to break the view . There was heavy timber on the east , and also on ...
... coming up to the foot of the knoll like the arm of a great sea , and opening to the eye a stretch of vision for more than twenty miles , with only an occasional tree to break the view . There was heavy timber on the east , and also on ...
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... coming , and took fright . I ran after her . She ran faster . I screamed and yelled . After her I went , through the house and around it , down by the garden gate and back again . She fairly flew . I flew after her , and also flew all ...
... coming , and took fright . I ran after her . She ran faster . I screamed and yelled . After her I went , through the house and around it , down by the garden gate and back again . She fairly flew . I flew after her , and also flew all ...
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... coming . They heard . no noise of any kind . The ax had been re- turned to the wood - pile , and deliberately stuck into the end of a log . Elenor had been in the room once after the deed was done , and had not noticed it , she said ...
... coming . They heard . no noise of any kind . The ax had been re- turned to the wood - pile , and deliberately stuck into the end of a log . Elenor had been in the room once after the deed was done , and had not noticed it , she said ...
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... coming into the neighborhood , and father would receive news of it by some one solicitous for him . Father was not afraid of old Jim in open con- flict . To have the matter over , he would have preferred open war with him . This ...
... coming into the neighborhood , and father would receive news of it by some one solicitous for him . Father was not afraid of old Jim in open con- flict . To have the matter over , he would have preferred open war with him . This ...
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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.