The District School as it was: Scenery-showing, and Other WritingsPress of T. R. Marvin, 1852 - 364 pagina's |
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Pagina 36
... snow - ball fight , and had been ac- cidentally hit once by the icy missile of big - fisted Joe Swagger . I looked down upon two or three fresh , slobbering abecedarians with a pride of superiority , greater perhaps than I ever felt ...
... snow - ball fight , and had been ac- cidentally hit once by the icy missile of big - fisted Joe Swagger . I looked down upon two or three fresh , slobbering abecedarians with a pride of superiority , greater perhaps than I ever felt ...
Pagina 68
... snow - storm by and by , to block up the roads , SO that none but booted and weather - proof males can get to school ; and you , Miss , must lose a day or two , and then find yourself at the foot with those blockhead boys who always ...
... snow - storm by and by , to block up the roads , SO that none but booted and weather - proof males can get to school ; and you , Miss , must lose a day or two , and then find yourself at the foot with those blockhead boys who always ...
Pagina 79
... snow . We even " spoke " while doing our night and morning work at home . A boy might be seen at the wood - pile hacking at a log and a dialogue by turns . Or perhaps , after dispensing the fodder to the ten- ants of the barn , he would ...
... snow . We even " spoke " while doing our night and morning work at home . A boy might be seen at the wood - pile hacking at a log and a dialogue by turns . Or perhaps , after dispensing the fodder to the ten- ants of the barn , he would ...
Pagina 105
... snow for drink . One has broken an icicle from the well - spout , and is nibbing it as she would a stick of candy . See Sarah jump . The ice - eater's cold , dripping hand has mischievously sprinkled her neck . Down goes the melting ...
... snow for drink . One has broken an icicle from the well - spout , and is nibbing it as she would a stick of candy . See Sarah jump . The ice - eater's cold , dripping hand has mischievously sprinkled her neck . Down goes the melting ...
Pagina 106
... SNOW - BALLING - A BALL BATTLE . CERTAIN MEMORABLE SNOW- NOON has come . It is even half - past twelve ; for the teacher got puzzled with a hard sum , and did not attend to the second reading of the first class so soon as usual by half ...
... SNOW - BALLING - A BALL BATTLE . CERTAIN MEMORABLE SNOW- NOON has come . It is even half - past twelve ; for the teacher got puzzled with a hard sum , and did not attend to the second reading of the first class so soon as usual by half ...
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abecedarian Abijah beauty behold blue breath called CHAPTER character chirographical clouds color course dark daugh delightful district school Divine door earth emulation England exercise face fancy Father feel gaze girls glory grandeur half hand head heart heaven hills honor hues least length lesson light lighthouse living look Mark Martin Mary Smith master Mehitabel Memorus memory ment metic mighty mind mistress morning Mount Washington mountains nature never observe Old School-house orthography Panharmonicon parents pedagogue perfect perhaps picture pleasure present pupils rattan readers round scene scenery scholars schoolmaster seat seemed side snow soul speak specta spectacle spell spelling-book spirit stand sublime summer Susan Clark sweet tardy taste taught teacher thee things thou thought tion trees verdure voice WARREN BURTON word word-paintings Wordwell young youth
Populaire passages
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...