The District School as it was: Scenery-showing, and Other WritingsPress of T. R. Marvin, 1852 - 364 pagina's |
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Pagina 27
... father's orchard , so dear to my palate , -the pumpkin - sweeting . There ran a ladder from the ground up among the branches , which was designed to represent the ladder of learning ; but of this I was ignorant . Little boys were ...
... father's orchard , so dear to my palate , -the pumpkin - sweeting . There ran a ladder from the ground up among the branches , which was designed to represent the ladder of learning ; but of this I was ignorant . Little boys were ...
Pagina 60
... father's house , shop , or farm ! Not so very strange either , if we only reflect a moment . Take a child into a party of twenty - six persons , all strangers , and lead him from one to the other as fast as his little feet can patter ...
... father's house , shop , or farm ! Not so very strange either , if we only reflect a moment . Take a child into a party of twenty - six persons , all strangers , and lead him from one to the other as fast as his little feet can patter ...
Pagina 71
... father ; " he speaks up as loud as a minister . " But I have said enough about this prodigy . I have said thus much , because , although he was thought so surpassingly bright , he was the most decided ninny in the school . The fact is ...
... father ; " he speaks up as loud as a minister . " But I have said enough about this prodigy . I have said thus much , because , although he was thought so surpassingly bright , he was the most decided ninny in the school . The fact is ...
Pagina 78
... fathers and mothers at home , little pieces by rote , and made to screech them out with most ear - splitting execution . One lad in this way committed to memory that famous piece of self - puffery beginning with the lines , - " You'd ...
... fathers and mothers at home , little pieces by rote , and made to screech them out with most ear - splitting execution . One lad in this way committed to memory that famous piece of self - puffery beginning with the lines , - " You'd ...
Pagina 84
... father and mother . But this chapter must be ended , so we will skip to the end of this famous exhibition . At a quarter past ten , the curtain dropped for the last time ; that is , the bed - blankets were pulled down and put into the ...
... father and mother . But this chapter must be ended , so we will skip to the end of this famous exhibition . At a quarter past ten , the curtain dropped for the last time ; that is , the bed - blankets were pulled down and put into the ...
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Pagina 239 - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Pagina 243 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Pagina 223 - Heaven In every breast hath sown these early seeds Of love and admiration, yet in vain, Without fair Culture's kind parental aid...
Pagina 272 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Pagina 232 - And living as if earth contained no tomb, — And glowing into day: we may resume The march of our existence...
Pagina 282 - THOU who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face/ Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way.
Pagina 137 - I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am in a state of grate bliss, and trust these lines will find you injoyin the same blessins.
Pagina 289 - Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead : and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder, power to speak of him Eternally — bidding the lip of man Keep silence — and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Pagina 239 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Pagina 277 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture : I can see Nothing to loathe in nature, save to be A link reluctant in a fleshly chain...