Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - 258 páginas |
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Página 53
... young villains . A few notes will express the limit of physical pain and the dread of it ; but a scale of notes , reaching from earth to perdition , can alone express the pos- sible suffering of the spirit . How the world . changes ...
... young villains . A few notes will express the limit of physical pain and the dread of it ; but a scale of notes , reaching from earth to perdition , can alone express the pos- sible suffering of the spirit . How the world . changes ...
Página 96
... young lover of the chase would loose Bertran from the stall , throw over the saddle , fasten it with a surcingle of platted buckskin thongs , put into his mouth the smooth bit of a bridle ornamented with trophies of the chase - four ...
... young lover of the chase would loose Bertran from the stall , throw over the saddle , fasten it with a surcingle of platted buckskin thongs , put into his mouth the smooth bit of a bridle ornamented with trophies of the chase - four ...
Página 98
... young dog , who did not really know his own speed . A prairie- wolf did not tax him . He could play in front of a deer at pleasure , and jump from side to side . He knew Bertran could outrun him , and that is all . As they expected ...
... young dog , who did not really know his own speed . A prairie- wolf did not tax him . He could play in front of a deer at pleasure , and jump from side to side . He knew Bertran could outrun him , and that is all . As they expected ...
Página 99
... young dog was behind a covert of bushes , and lost time by running in the wrong direction till he got the course of the chase by the yells . Bruno was in the lead ; the horse and rider next , as if to say , " Now , you black varmint ...
... young dog was behind a covert of bushes , and lost time by running in the wrong direction till he got the course of the chase by the yells . Bruno was in the lead ; the horse and rider next , as if to say , " Now , you black varmint ...
Página 100
... young dog is coming ; but it is a fearful distance to make up , when blue lightning leads the chase . " Go now , Bruno ; go now ! If you were two years younger you would get him ! You are twenty feet away now , Bruno . Five more feet ...
... young dog is coming ; but it is a fearful distance to make up , when blue lightning leads the chase . " Go now , Bruno ; go now ! If you were two years younger you would get him ! You are twenty feet away now , Bruno . Five more feet ...
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
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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.