Pleasant pages (by S.P. Newcombe). [With suppl., entitled] Fireside facts from the Great exhibition, Volume 1 |
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... brought forth food for themselves , what state had they reached then ? 5. And when they thus be- came rich , and built themselves The answers to these questions should be written . 6. What result did the con- quest by the ROMANS have ...
... brought forth food for themselves , what state had they reached then ? 5. And when they thus be- came rich , and built themselves The answers to these questions should be written . 6. What result did the con- quest by the ROMANS have ...
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... brought it from a place called Tyburn . It was conveyed through leaden pipes into large cisterns , called conduits . So the people went to the conduits instead of the brooks , and drew as much water as they pleased . " Water was also ...
... brought it from a place called Tyburn . It was conveyed through leaden pipes into large cisterns , called conduits . So the people went to the conduits instead of the brooks , and drew as much water as they pleased . " Water was also ...
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... brought prin- cipally in ships called colliers . But now it is brought by railway . This year the Great Northern Coal Company has been selling coals to the London people at one - third less than before . " W. I think that that is very ...
... brought prin- cipally in ships called colliers . But now it is brought by railway . This year the Great Northern Coal Company has been selling coals to the London people at one - third less than before . " W. I think that that is very ...
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... brought gas into LONDON , yet . ' " Now , I am coming . It did not reach the great city very quickly . It was not until the year 1807 that it was burned in London streets . Being a new invention , it had its enemies as well as its ...
... brought gas into LONDON , yet . ' " Now , I am coming . It did not reach the great city very quickly . It was not until the year 1807 that it was burned in London streets . Being a new invention , it had its enemies as well as its ...
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... , when CAPTAIN THOMAS SAVARY brought into use an engine for draining mines- which he styled " The Miner's Friend . " The engines of Savary , how- Soon an improvement in one part was made ; the 34 MONDAY . MORAL BIOGRAPHY . PLEASANT PAGES .
... , when CAPTAIN THOMAS SAVARY brought into use an engine for draining mines- which he styled " The Miner's Friend . " The engines of Savary , how- Soon an improvement in one part was made ; the 34 MONDAY . MORAL BIOGRAPHY . PLEASANT PAGES .
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Página 307 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.
Página 108 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child.
Página 176 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior!
Página 176 - and rest Thy weary head upon this breast !" A tear stood in his bright blue eye, But still he answered, with a sigh, Excelsior ! " Beware the pine-tree's withered branch ! Beware the awful avalanche ! " This was the peasant's last Good-night.
Página 108 - I have nought that is fair?" saith he; "Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves.
Página 68 - PAUSE not to dream of the future before us; Pause not to weep the wild cares that come o'er us; Hark, how Creation's deep, musical chorus, Unintermitting, goes up into heaven ! Never the ocean wave falters in flowing ; Never the little seed stops in its growing; More and more richly the rose-heart keeps glowing, Till from its nourishing stem it is riven. " Labor is worship ! " — the robin is singing ; "Labor is worship!
Página 307 - ... measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Página 105 - He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Página 176 - At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device Excelsior ! There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! POEMS ON SLAVERY.
Página 105 - Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor.