Early LessonsG. Routledge & Company, 1857 - 427 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 243 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Pàgina 243 - I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day.
Pàgina 101 - If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs and dying gales...
Pàgina 25 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Pàgina 101 - Humour can prevail, When Airs, and Flights, and Screams, and Scolding fail. Beauties in vain their pretty Eyes may roll ; Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul.
Pàgina 100 - Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep : they do not sleep ! On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit; they linger yet Avengers of their native land: With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.
Pàgina 69 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Pàgina 135 - I will whip you now," said he, " and then I hope you will not." So Robert was whipped till he cried so loud with the pain that the whole neighbourhood could hear him. "There...
Pàgina 136 - I'll go to the brazier's," added he, " and get a new collar made for your dog. From this day forward he shall always be called after you, Frank ! And, wife, whenever any of the neighbours...
Pàgina 132 - So we shall have no milk for supper, to-night," said he; and he sighed. "No milk for supper! why not?" said Frank; "is there no more milk in the house ?" " Yes, but we shall have none of it; for do not you remember, last Monday, when we threw down the milk, my mother said we were very careless, and that the next time we did so we should have no more; and this is the next time; so we shall have no milk for supper, to-night" " Well, then," said Frank, " we must do without it, that's all.