Scribners Monthly, Volumen15Scribner & Company, 1878 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 85
Página 4
... took their places in perfunctory and solemn fashion , and we shoved off , while about a dozen hounds and yard - dogs howled a muffled and anxious adieu from the bank . The moon hung low near the tree - tops , the river was dark and its ...
... took their places in perfunctory and solemn fashion , and we shoved off , while about a dozen hounds and yard - dogs howled a muffled and anxious adieu from the bank . The moon hung low near the tree - tops , the river was dark and its ...
Página 13
... , and soon were fairly out at sea , where the long , even swells took our vessel gently in their arms and rolled her slowly from side to side as if they were trying to put her to sleep . Those of the. AN ISLE OF JUNE . 13.
... , and soon were fairly out at sea , where the long , even swells took our vessel gently in their arms and rolled her slowly from side to side as if they were trying to put her to sleep . Those of the. AN ISLE OF JUNE . 13.
Página 22
... took an old and empty conch - shell , and holding it over the water FORT FINCASTLE . hammered it into bits , making as much noise as possible in so doing . This , he said , and he seemed to know all about it , was to attract the fish ...
... took an old and empty conch - shell , and holding it over the water FORT FINCASTLE . hammered it into bits , making as much noise as possible in so doing . This , he said , and he seemed to know all about it , was to attract the fish ...
Página 27
... took root in the floor of the cave . I took away one of them , about one- third of an inch in diameter and some fifteen feet long , and coiling it up , put it in my trunk . When my travels were over , and I had reached home , I hung the ...
... took root in the floor of the cave . I took away one of them , about one- third of an inch in diameter and some fifteen feet long , and coiling it up , put it in my trunk . When my travels were over , and I had reached home , I hung the ...
Página 29
... took with us water . " And his words were true , only what we saw was more like a garden than a farm . Down at the bottom we could see- quite plain with the naked eye , but ever so much better with the water - glass - a lovely garden ...
... took with us water . " And his words were true , only what we saw was more like a garden than a farm . Down at the bottom we could see- quite plain with the naked eye , but ever so much better with the water - glass - a lovely garden ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
asked beautiful bees bird Blossom Bonamy Bryce called Captain Elyot Caroline Spencer Ceramic Art church Clara Winthrop Claudia color door Endymion England English Euphemia eyes face feel feet followed girl give Guatemala half hand head heard heart Highbury horse hour Hunt Indian John Keats Keats knew lady laugh letter light live looked Lord Houghton Mark melodeon ment miles mind Miss Laud Miss Spencer moose morning mother Mycena Netty never night once oysters passed perhaps poem pretty Provincetown replied river Roxy Saguenay Sebatis seemed seen side sonnet stood stream Stubbs sure talk tell thing thoroughbred thought Tilly tion took town trees turned Twonnet voice walk Whigs Whittaker wife woman woods words young
Pasajes populares
Página 429 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Página 297 - So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Página 396 - I shall correct the procedure ; but that done, return with joy to that state of things, when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? I tender you the homage of my high respect.
Página 448 - Noah kep' a-nailin' an' a-chippin' an' a-sawin'; An' all de wicked neighbors kep' a-laughin' an' a-pshawin' ; But Noah didn't min' 'em, knowin' whut wuz gwine to happen: An' forty days an' forty nights de rain it kep' a-drappin'. Now, Noah had done cotched a lot ob ebry sort o' beas'es — Ob all de shows a-trabbelin', it beat 'em all to pieces ! He had a Morgan colt an' sebral head o' Jarsey cattle — An' druv 'em 'board de Ark as soon's he heered de thunder rattle.
Página 594 - O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n : young boys and girls Are level now with men ; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
Página 404 - I have asked myself so often why I should be a poet more than other men, seeing how great a thing it is, — how great things are to be gained by it, what a thing to be in the mouth of Fame, — that at last the idea has grown so monstrously beyond my seeming power of attainment, that the other day I nearly consented with myself to drop into a Phaethon.
Página 135 - I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
Página 284 - The Spanish Conquest in America, and its Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Government of Colonies. By ARTHUR HELPS. 4 vols. 8vo. £3. VOLS. I. & II. 28s. VOLS. III. & IV. 16s. each. History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin.
Página 638 - But these are all lies : men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Página 259 - may go and play," While I manage the world by myself. But harness me down with your iron bands, Be sure of your curb and rein, For I scorn the strength of your puny hands As the tempest scorns a chain.