Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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... faces be- tween our mother's knees and cried our discon- tent into refreshment ? Why do we linger in delight over the barefooted tramps , the journeys to kinsfolk , and the school - day sports ? Because the whole of all that was ever ...
... faces be- tween our mother's knees and cried our discon- tent into refreshment ? Why do we linger in delight over the barefooted tramps , the journeys to kinsfolk , and the school - day sports ? Because the whole of all that was ever ...
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... face , and had left him in peaceable possession of a heritage of unmeasured riches . It was no un- common thing , however , for an aged , wandering red - skin to return to these the hunting grounds of his youth , as if it had gone from ...
... face , and had left him in peaceable possession of a heritage of unmeasured riches . It was no un- common thing , however , for an aged , wandering red - skin to return to these the hunting grounds of his youth , as if it had gone from ...
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... faces glistened in the sun . To me , they were inde- scribably interesting , because they were black and I was white . Not knowing anything about color or " previous condition of servitude , " I 38 LIFE ON A BACKWOODS FARM .
... faces glistened in the sun . To me , they were inde- scribably interesting , because they were black and I was white . Not knowing anything about color or " previous condition of servitude , " I 38 LIFE ON A BACKWOODS FARM .
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... face and neck and feet . The charcoal , rubbed with coarse palms , brought the blood from my face in a place or two ; but it was a case in which the end justified the means , and I stood it without a cry . " Now , " said Pogus , the ...
... face and neck and feet . The charcoal , rubbed with coarse palms , brought the blood from my face in a place or two ; but it was a case in which the end justified the means , and I stood it without a cry . " Now , " said Pogus , the ...
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... face turned black , and I was about to run from her , when she caught me up and hid my face in her bosom , The and kept it there till I went to sleep 40 LIFE ON A BACKWOODS FARM .
... face turned black , and I was about to run from her , when she caught me up and hid my face in her bosom , The and kept it there till I went to sleep 40 LIFE ON A BACKWOODS FARM .
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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.