Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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... edge of the bed . This , I learned afterward , was the property of an uncle , who was then a student of medicine . These bones attracted me ; but I could hold them but a min- ute till the fingers would begin to move , and they would ...
... edge of the bed . This , I learned afterward , was the property of an uncle , who was then a student of medicine . These bones attracted me ; but I could hold them but a min- ute till the fingers would begin to move , and they would ...
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... edge . I was much attracted by this terraced work in going down , but lost thought of it in the roar of the water . To my consternation , as soon as I was down the two boys turned on me for a quarrel . One of them said : " Bub , do you ...
... edge . I was much attracted by this terraced work in going down , but lost thought of it in the roar of the water . To my consternation , as soon as I was down the two boys turned on me for a quarrel . One of them said : " Bub , do you ...
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... edge of the canal with my back to the water , and each boy put his foot on one of mine . Mashing both my feet in the mud , they would push me backward into the water . Then they took each a foot and a hand again , and began to swing me ...
... edge of the canal with my back to the water , and each boy put his foot on one of mine . Mashing both my feet in the mud , they would push me backward into the water . Then they took each a foot and a hand again , and began to swing me ...
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... edge of a world of buffet , heartless and full of deception and treachery ! To have any experience in this world is to learn to doubt . Distrust becomes a part of the armor of protection to the successful . " Know your man before you ...
... edge of a world of buffet , heartless and full of deception and treachery ! To have any experience in this world is to learn to doubt . Distrust becomes a part of the armor of protection to the successful . " Know your man before you ...
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... edge of a pawpaw - patch brought the rifle to father's face in a moment , with an intense watchfulness in the direction from which the sound came . I was sitting in front , at the point of the coupling , driving . I always did this ...
... edge of a pawpaw - patch brought the rifle to father's face in a moment , with an intense watchfulness in the direction from which the sound came . I was sitting in front , at the point of the coupling , driving . I always did 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.