The District School as it was: Scenery-showing, and Other WritingsPress of T. R. Marvin, 1852 - 364 pagina's |
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Pagina 17
... never to be patterned again . It may be well , therefore , to describe the edifice wherein and whereabout occur- red many of the scenes about to be recorded . I would have future generations acquainted with the accommodations , or ...
... never to be patterned again . It may be well , therefore , to describe the edifice wherein and whereabout occur- red many of the scenes about to be recorded . I would have future generations acquainted with the accommodations , or ...
Pagina 19
... never painted by man ; but the clouds of many years had stained it with their own dark hue . nails were starting from their fastness , and fellow- clapboards were becoming less closely and warmly intimate . There were six windows ...
... never painted by man ; but the clouds of many years had stained it with their own dark hue . nails were starting from their fastness , and fellow- clapboards were becoming less closely and warmly intimate . There were six windows ...
Pagina 21
... never occurred to my good parents , that they could teach me even the alphabet ; or , perhaps , they could not afford the time , or muster the patience for the tedious process . I had , however , learned the name of capital A , because ...
... never occurred to my good parents , that they could teach me even the alphabet ; or , perhaps , they could not afford the time , or muster the patience for the tedious process . I had , however , learned the name of capital A , because ...
Pagina 32
... never seen before , or at least had never seen crowded together in one body . All the 32 THE DISTRICT SCHOOL.
... never seen before , or at least had never seen crowded together in one body . All the 32 THE DISTRICT SCHOOL.
Pagina 33
Scenery-showing, and Other Writings Warren Burton. never seen crowded together in one body . All the great boys and girls , who had been kept at home during the summer , now left axes and shovels , needles and spinning - wheels , and ...
Scenery-showing, and Other Writings Warren Burton. never seen crowded together in one body . All the great boys and girls , who had been kept at home during the summer , now left axes and shovels , needles and spinning - wheels , and ...
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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...