Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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... give a little more time and inter- est to that which is natural to us . Our literary plant will not abide unless it be indigenous to the soil . The better literary material for any people is not an import . Charles Dickens taught the ...
... give a little more time and inter- est to that which is natural to us . Our literary plant will not abide unless it be indigenous to the soil . The better literary material for any people is not an import . Charles Dickens taught the ...
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... give us a sight of ourselves ; and we see what they have done . An old man delights to enter- tain you with his childhood ; and in so doing , he is simply bringing the record up to date . The fulfillment of more than he will ever tell ...
... give us a sight of ourselves ; and we see what they have done . An old man delights to enter- tain you with his childhood ; and in so doing , he is simply bringing the record up to date . The fulfillment of more than he will ever tell ...
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... give the community rest from the discordant thing . The fireplace had a base of these jack - oak logs , split in halves , and notched into a frame to hold in place the sandstone rock that made the sides and back - jam of the six - foot ...
... give the community rest from the discordant thing . The fireplace had a base of these jack - oak logs , split in halves , and notched into a frame to hold in place the sandstone rock that made the sides and back - jam of the six - foot ...
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... Give that baby some fresh air . Give it sun- light . Let it have an opportunity to fight that ghost of a baby's life , " the thing to do . " My mother was proud of me . She laughed at me through her tears . This was in the day when ...
... Give that baby some fresh air . Give it sun- light . Let it have an opportunity to fight that ghost of a baby's life , " the thing to do . " My mother was proud of me . She laughed at me through her tears . This was in the day when ...
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... gives way . The spirit passes through a storm just then . The man is not insane , but short of sanity . The soundest ... give us " the spirit of a sound mind ! " After Joe left our house , I grew out of his knowledge . I have seen him ...
... gives way . The spirit passes through a storm just then . The man is not insane , but short of sanity . The soundest ... give us " the spirit of a sound mind ! " After Joe left our house , I grew out of his knowledge . I have seen him ...
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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.