Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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... stood on a cleared knoll of four acres , just west of a town called Hazelgreen . The prairie skirted us to the south , coming up to the foot of the knoll like the arm of a great sea , and opening to the eye a stretch of vision for more ...
... stood on a cleared knoll of four acres , just west of a town called Hazelgreen . The prairie skirted us to the south , coming up to the foot of the knoll like the arm of a great sea , and opening to the eye a stretch of vision for more ...
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... stood near . In this fireplace there was ample space for cooking . The fire had to make its own way against the rain , and , of course , the smoke could depart at leisure . This arrangement also answered the purpose of a window in the ...
... stood near . In this fireplace there was ample space for cooking . The fire had to make its own way against the rain , and , of course , the smoke could depart at leisure . This arrangement also answered the purpose of a window in the ...
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... in which the end justified the means , and I stood it without a cry . " Now , " said Pogus , the older boy , " run home and ask your mother if you are not a very fine boy . " I went home , but on the way I had THE BLACK GOD . 39.
... in which the end justified the means , and I stood it without a cry . " Now , " said Pogus , the older boy , " run home and ask your mother if you are not a very fine boy . " I went home , but on the way I had THE BLACK GOD . 39.
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... stood me in the edge of the canal with my back to the water , and each boy put his foot on one of mine . Mashing both my feet in the mud , they would push me backward into the water . Then they took each a foot and a hand again , and ...
... stood me in the edge of the canal with my back to the water , and each boy put his foot on one of mine . Mashing both my feet in the mud , they would push me backward into the water . Then they took each a foot and a hand again , and ...
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... stood by the bedside of one of them , and saw him die fighting snakes and wild animals in the awfulness of delirium tremens . I saw him slam the door of time behind him with a curse on his lips . The other is now a con- vict for life in ...
... stood by the bedside of one of them , and saw him die fighting snakes and wild animals in the awfulness of delirium tremens . I saw him slam the door of time behind him with a curse on his lips . The other is now a con- vict for life 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.