Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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... springs of life are all in tension . This hot and restless age is burning the life out of souls . It puts them under the whip and into the ceaseless grind of destiny . Thousands wish they had never been born . No boy in a trundle - bed ...
... springs of life are all in tension . This hot and restless age is burning the life out of souls . It puts them under the whip and into the ceaseless grind of destiny . Thousands wish they had never been born . No boy in a trundle - bed ...
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... me was too great at too early an age . It fell on me like a dull thud , and has left in me the traces of iron . The springs and modulations of my whole life have been dulled by it , so that on one 54 LIFE ON A BACKWOODS FARM .
... me was too great at too early an age . It fell on me like a dull thud , and has left in me the traces of iron . The springs and modulations of my whole life have been dulled by it , so that on one 54 LIFE ON A BACKWOODS FARM .
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... spring and summer seasons . One spring father hired a man for six months , " wet and dry . " His name was Joe Coneer . He was a stalwart. JOE CONEER , THE CRAZY MAN . JIM HANDY , THE VILLAIN . 56 CHAPTER V JOE CONEER, THE CRAZY MAN,
... spring and summer seasons . One spring father hired a man for six months , " wet and dry . " His name was Joe Coneer . He was a stalwart. JOE CONEER , THE CRAZY MAN . JIM HANDY , THE VILLAIN . 56 CHAPTER V JOE CONEER, THE CRAZY MAN,
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... spring ; and this little home became a notable place . He became a great home - keeper and an ideal farmer . Other farms have been improved about him— large , fine houses and barns have been built in sight of him all about - but his ...
... spring ; and this little home became a notable place . He became a great home - keeper and an ideal farmer . Other farms have been improved about him— large , fine houses and barns have been built in sight of him all about - but his ...
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... but it has not had the effect to take the springs of purpose out of me , but to encourage me the rather . If I hear of Joe's death in time , I will go to the funeral . CHAPTER VI . " Envy , eldest born of hell 68 LIFE ON A BACKWOODS FARM .
... but it has not had the effect to take the springs of purpose out of me , but to encourage me the rather . If I hear of Joe's death in time , I will go to the funeral . CHAPTER VI . " Envy , eldest born of hell 68 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.