St. Nicholas, Volume 24,Parte 2

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Mary Mapes Dodge
Scribner & Company, 1897
 

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Página 610 - When both side lights you see ahead — Port your helm, and show your RED. GREEN to GREEN— or RED to RED— Perfect safety — go ahead...
Página 921 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Página 780 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Página 752 - In such a season, when the sun was scarcely high enough to have dried up the dews of Kensington's green alleys, as I passed along the broad central walk, I saw a group on the lawn before the palace, which, to my mind, was a vision of exquisite loveliness. The Duchess of Kent and her daughter, whose years then numbered nine, are breakfasting in the open air — a single page attending on them at a respectful distance, the matron looking on with eyes of love, whilst the ' fair, soft English face
Página 628 - s the wind, and wet 's the rain ; Saint Hugh, be our good speed ! Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, Nor helps good hearts in need.
Página 756 - It was not thought necessary you should, Princess,' I answered. 'I see I am nearer the throne than I thought.
Página 610 - THE RULE OF THE ROAD. The rule of the road, is a paradox quite Both in riding and driving along ; If you go to the left you are sure to go right, If you go to the right you go wrong...
Página 756 - I ask your Majesty's leave to cite some remarkable words of your Majesty's when only twelve years old, while the Regency Bill was in progress. I then said to the Duchess of Kent, that now, for the first time, your Majesty ought to know your place in the succession. Her Royal Highness agreed with me, and I put the genealogical table into the historical book. When Mr. Davys (the Queen's instructor, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough) was gone, the Princess Victoria opened as usual the book again, and...
Página 780 - Crumbs of Comfort for the Chickens of the Covenant. A Quaker, whose outward man the powers that were thought proper to imprison, published A Sigh of Sorrow for the Sinners of Zion, breathed out of a Hole in the Wall of an Earthly Vessel^ known among Men ~by the Name of Samuel Fish.
Página 756 - This little lady is educating with much care, and watched so closely that no busy maid has a moment to whisper, ' You are heir of England.' I suspect, if we could dissect the little heart, we should find that some pigeon or other bird of the air had carried the matter.

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