The Living Age, Volum 128E. Littell & Company, 1876 |
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Pàgina 22
... dear old uncle again . ” Is that what you want ? " he said , sit- ting down in his arm - chair , and looking me steadily in the face . " Well , then , I'll tell you that I was going to your house in this dress to give you a little ...
... dear old uncle again . ” Is that what you want ? " he said , sit- ting down in his arm - chair , and looking me steadily in the face . " Well , then , I'll tell you that I was going to your house in this dress to give you a little ...
Pàgina 27
... dear old face wore a grave , kindly expres- sion , " don't knock off your red apples be- fore the time , but wait till late in the au- tumn ; then , when you take your wife the last beautiful one , tell her the story of your tricks ...
... dear old face wore a grave , kindly expres- sion , " don't knock off your red apples be- fore the time , but wait till late in the au- tumn ; then , when you take your wife the last beautiful one , tell her the story of your tricks ...
Pàgina 38
... ideal woman will seldom be realized , un- less , indeed , in yourself . " " Oh , dear me ! " exclaimed Fanny , " I have run the needle into my finger , and it is so painful . " " Do not imagine I am such a narrow idiot 38 HER DEAREST FOE .
... ideal woman will seldom be realized , un- less , indeed , in yourself . " " Oh , dear me ! " exclaimed Fanny , " I have run the needle into my finger , and it is so painful . " " Do not imagine I am such a narrow idiot 38 HER DEAREST FOE .
Pàgina 62
... dear cricket to cheer with friendly chirpings her leisure on the hearth . No puppy has been known to lavish tender caresses on the radiant head of an iridescent bluebottle . The hen whose limited intellect reels before the watery ...
... dear cricket to cheer with friendly chirpings her leisure on the hearth . No puppy has been known to lavish tender caresses on the radiant head of an iridescent bluebottle . The hen whose limited intellect reels before the watery ...
Pàgina 74
... dear and cherished ally , he may be knight of the Garter and guest of the lord mayor , but he is none the less the chief of an in- truding horde , dwelling by force in the lands and houses of other men . What kind of treatment it is ...
... dear and cherished ally , he may be knight of the Garter and guest of the lord mayor , but he is none the less the chief of an in- truding horde , dwelling by force in the lands and houses of other men . What kind of treatment it is ...
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Pàgina 219 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Pàgina 45 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Pàgina 137 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Pàgina 94 - I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a...
Pàgina 221 - At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is stilL There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Pàgina 406 - We only toil, who are the first of things. And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm; Nor harken what the inner spirit sings,
Pàgina 58 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be...
Pàgina 116 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid — his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Pàgina 217 - Rockabye Baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle and all.
Pàgina 458 - Ye never dreamt of this, for ten or twenty years after ye began to preach. Ye did not then, like Korah Dathan, and Abiram, seek the priesthood also. Ye knew, ' No man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.