Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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... kind soul with all her finicky notions and fussiness . She liked me , and never tired of telling of her suc- cess with me the first few days of my life ; when the fact is , it is a wonder I did not die on her hands . If I had died , the ...
... kind soul with all her finicky notions and fussiness . She liked me , and never tired of telling of her suc- cess with me the first few days of my life ; when the fact is , it is a wonder I did not die on her hands . If I had died , the ...
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... kind we boys use to take and put into our pockets . Joe had his club . He sol- emnly looked at that snake for a minute , and then walked around it and went on to the next bundle , saying : " I'll let you go . " He would loan the club to ...
... kind we boys use to take and put into our pockets . Joe had his club . He sol- emnly looked at that snake for a minute , and then walked around it and went on to the next bundle , saying : " I'll let you go . " He would loan the club to ...
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... 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 . When it was discovered , she started ...
... 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 . When it was discovered , she started ...
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... kind of half - formed purpose to rid the world of old Jim . The argument went this way in my mind : Old Jim is of no account . The world would be better off without him . All his relatives wish he were dead , for then they would no ...
... kind of half - formed purpose to rid the world of old Jim . The argument went this way in my mind : Old Jim is of no account . The world would be better off without him . All his relatives wish he were dead , for then they would no ...
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... kind of underbrush in about forty yards of the road , and could see it plainly , having a view up and down half a quarter or more . I saw old Jim coming down the road with his gun on his shoulder , and with his hat off , carrying it in ...
... kind of underbrush in about forty yards of the road , and could see it plainly , having a view up and down half a quarter or more . I saw old Jim coming down the road with his gun on his shoulder , and with his hat off , carrying it in ...
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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.