Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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... gave it a most grotesque appearance . The gables were of like material with the walls , the logs being sloped at the ends , and each one made shorter so as to receive the roof - poles and make the slant . The roof - poles reached the ...
... gave it a most grotesque appearance . The gables were of like material with the walls , the logs being sloped at the ends , and each one made shorter so as to receive the roof - poles and make the slant . The roof - poles reached the ...
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... gave it into the hands of an English company , who took it , with an enormous grant of land ; and it was finally completed . This canal extended from Evansville , by way of Terre Haute and Lafay- ette , to the Ohio line in the northern ...
... gave it into the hands of an English company , who took it , with an enormous grant of land ; and it was finally completed . This canal extended from Evansville , by way of Terre Haute and Lafay- ette , to the Ohio line in the northern ...
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... gave him the case , and told him to go home and punish his two scamps . Jack was sober enough to know what that meant , and he followed directions to the letter ; but it did no good . The fact is , when that sort of thing is in children ...
... gave him the case , and told him to go home and punish his two scamps . Jack was sober enough to know what that meant , and he followed directions to the letter ; but it did no good . The fact is , when that sort of thing is in children ...
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... gave one reason for carrying that gun . That was to kill father . He lived a week or so at a place , wherever the people would keep him . His movements were mysterious . No one ever knew his plans ahead . There was only one thing in his ...
... gave one reason for carrying that gun . That was to kill father . He lived a week or so at a place , wherever the people would keep him . His movements were mysterious . No one ever knew his plans ahead . There was only one thing in his ...
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... gave it three raps to bounce the ramrod out ; then you primed the tube with more powder , and picked it in with a brass pin ; then you put on the percussion - cap , and by that time , if the game was not a mile away , it ought to be ...
... gave it three raps to bounce the ramrod out ; then you primed the tube with more powder , and picked it in with a brass pin ; then you put on the percussion - cap , and by that time , if the game was not a mile away , it ought to be ...
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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.