The District School as it was: Scenery-showing, and Other WritingsPress of T. R. Marvin, 1852 - 364 pagina's |
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Pagina 19
... less closely and warmly intimate . There were six windows , which here and there stopped and distorted the passage of light by fractures , patches , and seams of putty . There were shutters of board , like those of a store , which were ...
... less closely and warmly intimate . There were six windows , which here and there stopped and distorted the passage of light by fractures , patches , and seams of putty . There were shutters of board , like those of a store , which were ...
Pagina 35
... less advantage to the family purse . Mrs. Patch was heard to guess that " Polly could keep as good a school as any body else . Her edication had cost enough any how . She had been to our school summer after summer , and winter after ...
... less advantage to the family purse . Mrs. Patch was heard to guess that " Polly could keep as good a school as any body else . Her edication had cost enough any how . She had been to our school summer after summer , and winter after ...
Pagina 60
... less than ten minutes ; do this four times a day even , and you would not be surprised if he should be weeks at least , if not months , in learning to designate them all by their names . Is it any matter of surprise , then , that the ...
... less than ten minutes ; do this four times a day even , and you would not be surprised if he should be weeks at least , if not months , in learning to designate them all by their names . Is it any matter of surprise , then , that the ...
Pagina 61
... less months , the weary novice ceases to be an Ab - ite . He is next put into whole words of one syllable , arranged in columns . The first word we read in Perry that conveyed anything like an idea , was the first one in the first ...
... less months , the weary novice ceases to be an Ab - ite . He is next put into whole words of one syllable , arranged in columns . The first word we read in Perry that conveyed anything like an idea , was the first one in the first ...
Pagina 67
... of two or three idle or stupid boys at that less hon- orable extremity of the class called the foot ! That boy at the head - no , it was a boy ; but Harriet has at length got above him ; and , when girls AS IT WAS . 67.
... of two or three idle or stupid boys at that less hon- orable extremity of the class called the foot ! That boy at the head - no , it was a boy ; but Harriet has at length got above him ; and , when girls AS IT WAS . 67.
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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...