The Sparrowgrass Papers: Or, Living in the CountryDerby & Jackson, 1856 - 328 páginas |
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... seemed denser , sullener , sultrier . Then a little breeze prattled through the chestnuts , and whitened the poplars . Then it subsided . Then the white cloud above appeared a tangle of dazzling light , A THUNDER - SHOWER . 33 and a ...
... seemed denser , sullener , sultrier . Then a little breeze prattled through the chestnuts , and whitened the poplars . Then it subsided . Then the white cloud above appeared a tangle of dazzling light , A THUNDER - SHOWER . 33 and a ...
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... seemed as if I had been transported into a strange place a far countrie . Our cottage , too , which I had planned and built , changed its tinted walls to stark , staring white , with window - panes black as ink . From room to room Mrs ...
... seemed as if I had been transported into a strange place a far countrie . Our cottage , too , which I had planned and built , changed its tinted walls to stark , staring white , with window - panes black as ink . From room to room Mrs ...
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... seemed so ludicrous that I could not restrain a smile , and then the butcher caught the joke , and said there was no way to do it except with fresh putty . I do love a man who can enjoy a joke , so I took a fancy to that butcher . When ...
... seemed so ludicrous that I could not restrain a smile , and then the butcher caught the joke , and said there was no way to do it except with fresh putty . I do love a man who can enjoy a joke , so I took a fancy to that butcher . When ...
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... seemed a reasonable request , and of course we went . When we approached the big tent we heard the music of wind instruments , the sound of a gong , and the roaring of lions . This divided our juvenile party at once , one half wanted to ...
... seemed a reasonable request , and of course we went . When we approached the big tent we heard the music of wind instruments , the sound of a gong , and the roaring of lions . This divided our juvenile party at once , one half wanted to ...
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... seemed to be surrounded with the various mill- ponds of that celebrated stream . Here we are within the enchanted ground , and the shadow of the great " Katrina Van Courtland , with one foot resting on Spiting Devil Creek , and the ...
... seemed to be surrounded with the various mill- ponds of that celebrated stream . Here we are within the enchanted ground , and the shadow of the great " Katrina Van Courtland , with one foot resting on Spiting Devil Creek , and the ...
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Página 35 - THE splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Página 83 - Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight: With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
Página 38 - But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Página 197 - LORD, how manifold are thy works: in wisdom hast thou made them all ; the earth is full of thy riches.
Página 59 - Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood ! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel Your love, and recompense the boon with mine ; If dewy morn, and odorous noon, and even, With sunset and its gorgeous ministers, And solemn midnight's tingling silentness ; If autumn's hollow sighs in the sere wood, And winter robing with pure snow and crowns Of starry ice the grey grass and bare boughs...
Página 141 - I was pleased with the exploit, but after a few minutes was seized with horror, as having in a sportive way killed an innocent creature while she was careful for her young. I beheld her lying dead and thought those young ones for which she was so careful must now perish for want of their dam to nourish them...
Página 67 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 205 - The burning babe As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow, Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near, A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear; Who, scorched with excessive heat, such floods of tears did shed As though his floods should quench his flames which with his tears were fed. Alas...
Página 249 - THE Spring is here — the delicate-footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers And with it comes a thirst to be away, Wasting in wood-paths its voluptuous hours — A feeling that is like a sense of wings, Restless to soar above these perishing things.
Página 72 - It was not until he had roused up everybody around, broken in the basement door with an axe, gotten into the kitchen with his cursed savage dogs and shooting-iron, and seized me by the collar, that he recognized me — and then, he wanted me to explain it ! But what kind of an explanation could I make to him ? I told him he would have to wait until my mind was composed, and then I would let him understand the whole matter fully. But he never would have had the particulars from me, for I do not approve...