A book of boyhoods, by Ascott R. Hope, Side 47John Hogg, 1882 - 382 sider |
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Side 25
... heard of as running away from home to go to school . Our Connecticut boy thinks of school - life as sitting three hours at a time on hard oak benches , with legs so cramped that " I could almost have kicked my best friend by way of ...
... heard of as running away from home to go to school . Our Connecticut boy thinks of school - life as sitting three hours at a time on hard oak benches , with legs so cramped that " I could almost have kicked my best friend by way of ...
Side 35
... heard of that before : I don't believe it's one of that kind . ' " Sartain sure ; I'll bet you a mug of flip of it . ' " Well , I'll stand you ! ' " Done : now I'll just put it under the fore - stick ? ' " Well . ' " It being thus ...
... heard of that before : I don't believe it's one of that kind . ' " Sartain sure ; I'll bet you a mug of flip of it . ' " Well , I'll stand you ! ' " Done : now I'll just put it under the fore - stick ? ' " Well . ' " It being thus ...
Side 48
... heard such a succession of choking , suffocating , strangling sounds as issued from his throat . I expected he would die , and , indeed , once or twice I thought he was dead . Strange to say , he got up the next morning in excellent ...
... heard such a succession of choking , suffocating , strangling sounds as issued from his throat . I expected he would die , and , indeed , once or twice I thought he was dead . Strange to say , he got up the next morning in excellent ...
Side 50
... heard strange sounds , 66 between a howl and a scream . Beyond them the soil was spattered up , and the top of a tree , cut asunder by a ball , fell almost at their feet . This attack was directed against the picket , which , when one ...
... heard strange sounds , 66 between a howl and a scream . Beyond them the soil was spattered up , and the top of a tree , cut asunder by a ball , fell almost at their feet . This attack was directed against the picket , which , when one ...
Side 51
... heard the dip of oars and the flapping of waves against the prow of a boat . I looked in the direction of the sounds , and at last descried the dusky outline of a small craft stealing down the river . I cried out : Boat ahoy ! who goes ...
... heard the dip of oars and the flapping of waves against the prow of a boat . I looked in the direction of the sounds , and at last descried the dusky outline of a small craft stealing down the river . I cried out : Boat ahoy ! who goes ...
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amusement appeared Bacchants barracks began Bhurtpore boy's boys breach brought called captain Charles Lamb Christ's Hospital colonel companions comrades course D'Arcy Thompson enemy English eyes fags father Father Murphy fear fellow felt fire friends fugleman gave Goodrich guns hand head heard heart hero Holkar honour horse hour Jack Clarke Jesuit John Shipp Kaspar Kaspar Hauser kind learning legs Leigh Hunt living looked Lord Lake Marmontel master matchlock miles mind morning mother native never night Nuremberg officers once passed Peter Parley poor regiment rest Ridgefield round Samuel Samuel Goodrich Saxmundham scene scholars schoolboys seemed seen ship shot side sight smock-frock soldiers soon stood story things Thomas Thomas Platter thought told took town turned village whole wounded young youth
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Side 213 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Side 168 - ... those innocents would do her no harm" ; and how frightened I used to be, though in those days I had my maid to sleep with me, because I was never half so good or religious as she — and yet I never saw the infants. Here John expanded all his eyebrows and tried to look courageous. Then I told how good she was to all her grand-children, having us to the...
Side 328 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Side 289 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Side 170 - I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors. The night-time solitude, and the dark, were my hell. The sufferings I endured in this nature would justify the expression. I never laid my head on my pillow, I suppose, from the fourth to the seventh or eighth year of my life — so far as memory serves in things so long ago — without an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre.
Side 169 - ... common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited back upon the plate a bunch of grapes which, not unobserved by Alice, he had meditated dividing with her, and both seemed willing to relinquish them for the present as irrelevant. Then in somewhat a more heightened tone, I told how, though their great-grandmother Field loved all her grandchildren, yet in an especial manner she might be said to love their uncle, John L , because he was so handsome and spirited a youth, and a king to the rest...
Side 166 - I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant places ? — these are my oldest recollections.
Side 289 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Side 194 - ... or send out of the house, slightingly (under pretext of friendship, or I know not what), a blessing so particularly adapted, predestined, I may say, to my individual palate— It argues an insensibility. I remember a touch of conscience in this kind at school. My good old aunt, who never parted from me at the end of a holiday without stuffing a sweetmeat, or some nice thing, into my pocket, had dismissed me one evening with a smoking plum-cake, fresh from the oven.
Side 185 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.