Autumn Hours and Fireside ReadingCharles Scribner, 1854 - 311 sider |
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Side 12
... give , ' in this as in many other cases . A mathematical treatise requires a prepared reader ; so does the most unpretending volume , aiming at no higher destiny than the innocent amusement of a listless hour . On our moods must depend ...
... give , ' in this as in many other cases . A mathematical treatise requires a prepared reader ; so does the most unpretending volume , aiming at no higher destiny than the innocent amusement of a listless hour . On our moods must depend ...
Side 15
... in a fog , that has light and warmth enough , but communicates as little as it can , and stares stolidly upon us , without putting down a single ladder of rays 2 to help our imaginations . Give us the most INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 15.
... in a fog , that has light and warmth enough , but communicates as little as it can , and stares stolidly upon us , without putting down a single ladder of rays 2 to help our imaginations . Give us the most INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 15.
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Caroline Matilda Kirkland. 2 to help our imaginations . Give us the most garrulous tourist rather . Some stupid ... gives us an insufficient , and often a mistaken notion of each other's powers ; but when an author , with a certain air of ...
Caroline Matilda Kirkland. 2 to help our imaginations . Give us the most garrulous tourist rather . Some stupid ... gives us an insufficient , and often a mistaken notion of each other's powers ; but when an author , with a certain air of ...
Side 18
... give them boundless range through the fields of fiction ? The other extreme . We should cut a path for them with our own hands , and be sure that it be full of beauty and variety . Drilling enough there is , or should be , at school ...
... give them boundless range through the fields of fiction ? The other extreme . We should cut a path for them with our own hands , and be sure that it be full of beauty and variety . Drilling enough there is , or should be , at school ...
Side 31
... give a happy shine to whatever they look upon , and renewed good humor brightens not only our own faces but the faces of others to us . Stagnation is the enemy of cheerfulness . The black pool would run dancing and laughing in the sun ...
... give a happy shine to whatever they look upon , and renewed good humor brightens not only our own faces but the faces of others to us . Stagnation is the enemy of cheerfulness . The black pool would run dancing and laughing in the sun ...
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Autumn Hours, and Fireside Reading (Classic Reprint) Mrs. C. M. Kirkland Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2016 |
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Side 142 - No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust ; And oft, when in my heart was heard...
Side 142 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad hearts ! without reproach or blot ; Who do thy work and know it not ; Oh ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power ! around them cast.
Side 206 - The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness...
Side 77 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Side 265 - Subtle as Sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Side 222 - ... encumbered with claims — and took up her own abode on the new plantation. Living in an humble dwelling — and relinquishing many of her habitual comforts — -she devoted herself with such zeal, untiring industry, and indomitable resolution to the attainment of her object, that her success triumphed over every difficulty, and exceeded the expectations of all who had discouraged her. She not only paid her husband's debts to the full, but secured for her children and descendants a handsome and...
Side 220 - how came you here ?' "'Oh, I thought, 'replied I, 'you would need nurses as well as soldiers.
Side 117 - Impostor, do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance...
Side 63 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover...
Side 143 - Why, assure you, signior, rich apparel has strange virtues : it makes him that hath it without means, esteemed for an excellent wit : he that enjoys it with means, puts the world in remembrance of his means : it helps the deformities of nature, and gives lustre to her beauties ; makes continual holiday where it shines...