Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - 258 páginas |
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Página 13
... mother's knees and cried our discon- tent into refreshment ? Why do we linger in delight over the barefooted tramps , the journeys to kinsfolk , and the school - day sports ? Because the whole of all that was ever real of this is stored ...
... mother's knees and cried our discon- tent into refreshment ? Why do we linger in delight over the barefooted tramps , the journeys to kinsfolk , and the school - day sports ? Because the whole of all that was ever real of this is stored ...
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... mother was as fit for a palace as for a cabin . The flat rock hearth was not very elegantly laid . In the fireplace was the swinging crane , that , like Pluto , lived in the middle of the flame . There was the great iron In the pot in ...
... mother was as fit for a palace as for a cabin . The flat rock hearth was not very elegantly laid . In the fireplace was the swinging crane , that , like Pluto , lived in the middle of the flame . There was the great iron In the pot in ...
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... have an opportunity to fight that ghost of a baby's life , " the thing to do . " My mother was proud of me . She laughed at me through her tears . This was in the day when motherhood in honorable wedlock , with all women , I WAS BORN . 31.
... have an opportunity to fight that ghost of a baby's life , " the thing to do . " My mother was proud of me . She laughed at me through her tears . This was in the day when motherhood in honorable wedlock , with all women , I WAS BORN . 31.
Página 33
... mother threw a spoon at him , and Nancy Perkins yanked him into the corner so vigorously that he stepped on the side of the frying pan , and the handle flew up and whacked him on the head . Uncle Linus did not understand this , and he ...
... mother threw a spoon at him , and Nancy Perkins yanked him into the corner so vigorously that he stepped on the side of the frying pan , and the handle flew up and whacked him on the head . Uncle Linus did not understand this , and he ...
Página 39
... a case 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.
... a case 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.
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.