The District School as it was: Scenery-showing, and Other WritingsPress of T. R. Marvin, 1852 - 364 pagina's |
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Pagina 32
... stand , help me cheerfully through the task , and set me down again , pleased with her , if with nothing else . There was one circumstance , however , in the daily routine , which was a matter of some little excitement and pleasure . I ...
... stand , help me cheerfully through the task , and set me down again , pleased with her , if with nothing else . There was one circumstance , however , in the daily routine , which was a matter of some little excitement and pleasure . I ...
Pagina 55
... standing in a stooping posture , with the finger on the head of a nail in the floor . It was a position not particularly favorable to health of body or soundness of mind ; the head being brought about as low as the knees , the blood ...
... standing in a stooping posture , with the finger on the head of a nail in the floor . It was a position not particularly favorable to health of body or soundness of mind ; the head being brought about as low as the knees , the blood ...
Pagina 60
... stand in an unal- terable line , all in the same complexions and dress ; all just so tall , just so motionless and mute and uninteresting , and , of course , the most unremem- berable figures in the world . No wonder that some should go ...
... stand in an unal- terable line , all in the same complexions and dress ; all just so tall , just so motionless and mute and uninteresting , and , of course , the most unremem- berable figures in the world . No wonder that some should go ...
Pagina 68
... stands , without the master's " putting it out , " she has been over it so many times . " Now , Mr. James , get up again if you can , " thinks Harriet . I pity you , poor girl ; for James has an ally that will blow over your proud ...
... stands , without the master's " putting it out , " she has been over it so many times . " Now , Mr. James , get up again if you can , " thinks Harriet . I pity you , poor girl ; for James has an ally that will blow over your proud ...
Pagina 70
... to commit to memory what I did not under- stand . My teachers never aided me with the least explanation of the above - copied sentence , nor of other reading of a similar character , which was likewise 70 THE DISTRICT SCHOOL.
... to commit to memory what I did not under- stand . My teachers never aided me with the least explanation of the above - copied sentence , nor of other reading of a similar character , which was likewise 70 THE DISTRICT SCHOOL.
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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...