Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - 258 páginas |
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Página 13
... known . Why should we have memory ? Why should we linger over the past ? Why do we like to think of child- hood joys and sorrows ? Why do we cherish the simple days when we put our little faces be- tween our mother's knees and cried our ...
... known . Why should we have memory ? Why should we linger over the past ? Why do we like to think of child- hood joys and sorrows ? Why do we cherish the simple days when we put our little faces be- tween our mother's knees and cried our ...
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... known to break a lock , or blow out a smudging night - lamp , or pull a blanket from the nose of a drowsy sleeper . Did you ever walk through the fields and pluck clover - blossoms for your mouth ; and did you ever find a honey - bee in ...
... known to break a lock , or blow out a smudging night - lamp , or pull a blanket from the nose of a drowsy sleeper . Did you ever walk through the fields and pluck clover - blossoms for your mouth ; and did you ever find a honey - bee in ...
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... known to the settlers to be harmless . The Delawares were most acquainted with this region , and a number of their older men were rather familiar objects to the settlers . Their returning became finally the occasion of a tragedy . In ...
... known to the settlers to be harmless . The Delawares were most acquainted with this region , and a number of their older men were rather familiar objects to the settlers . Their returning became finally the occasion of a tragedy . In ...
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... known except by authority , or through knowledge of all relation- ships . We live in a shadow - land . We see parts of nature's meaning . We are never more than a handbreadth from intolerable mystery . But we grow . We feed on the truth ...
... known except by authority , or through knowledge of all relation- ships . We live in a shadow - land . We see parts of nature's meaning . We are never more than a handbreadth from intolerable mystery . But we grow . We feed on the truth ...
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... known anything but the forces that have been true , and steps into the edge of a world of buffet , heartless and full of deception and treachery ! To have any experience in this world is to learn to doubt . Distrust becomes a part of ...
... known anything but the forces that have been true , and steps into the edge of a world of buffet , heartless and full of deception and treachery ! To have any experience in this world is to learn to doubt . Distrust becomes a part of ...
Términos y frases comunes
animal beauty became Bertran birds black bass Blannerhassett breath Bruno cabin canal cattle caught chase child Croppie dead Delawares delirium tremens Dog and wolf Dorkey eagle Elenor Erie Canal Evansville face father fearful feeling feet fight fish gone grass ground hands Hazelgreen Heakle heart herds horse hour human hundred hunt hunter Indian Jack Hardy jack-oak Jimmy keep killed killed Uncle King Lear knew Lena limb living look mental miles mind moral morning mother mules Nancy nature Nemo never night old Jim opossum pipe of peace prairie pull road Rodney Shawnee side sight sort soul spirit stars stood stream tell things thought threw timber to-day tomahawk took trees turned venison Wakarusa walked whisky wigwam wild witches wolf woman woods young
Pasajes populares
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.