Autumnal Leaves: Tales and Sketches in Prose and RhymeC.S. Francis & Company, 1857 - 365 páginas |
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Autumnal Leaves: Tales and Sketches in Prose and Rhyme Lydia Maria Francis 1802-1880 Child Prévia não disponível - 2023 |
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Alice Alice White answered arms asked beautiful birds blessing blossoms blushed Border Ruffians bright brother Camillo Chaldea child countenance dear dream Edward Vernon Eglantine Elizabeth Barrett Browning emigrants Eratus Ernest Esther excited exclaimed eyes face fairy father feel Florien flowers Fritz garden golden graceful hand happy head heard heart Hermotimus horse husband Joe Smith John Bradford John Golding Kansas Kate Katie kissed knew laughed listened live looked mind Missouri mother Mount Oread nature neighbour never night passed Pierre pleasant Poems poet poetry poor Praxinoë Prytanes Quaker R. H. DANA replied Reuben Rosabella rose round ruffians seemed Sibella Simeon slaves sleep smile Soame Jenyns soon soul sound spirit spoke tears tell thee thing thou thought tion told tones touched Veen Vernon voice walked watch wife William window wish woman women young Zaida
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Página 82 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 9 - A form more fair, a face more sweet, Ne'er hath it been my lot to meet. "And her modest answer and graceful air Show her wise and good as she is fair...
Página 297 - Many a merry bout have these frolic beings at the vicissitudes of an ague ; and good sport it is, to see a man tumble with an epilepsy, and revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why.
Página 174 - Only, O Lord, in thy dear love Fit us for perfect Rest above ; And help us, this and every day, To live more nearly as we pray.
Página 231 - ve learned sad lessons from the years, But slowly, and with many tears ; For God made me to kindly view The world that I am passing through.
Página 205 - Thus feelings of ill-will were followed by misery and loss. Joe's temper grew more and more vindictive, and the love of talking over his troubles at the gin-shop increased upon him. Poor Mrs. Smith cried, and said it was all owing to Reuben Black, for a better-hearted man never lived than her Joe when she first married him. Such was the state of things when Simeon Green purchased the farm adjoining Reuben's. This had been much neglected, and had caught thistles and other weeds from the neighbouring...
Página 211 - I've got enough to do to attend to my own business." The civil request that he might be allowed to use his oxen and chains for a few minutes, being answered in this surly tone, Simeon silently walked off, in search of a more obliging neighbour. The men who had been left waiting with the patient and suffering oxen scolded about Reuben's...
Página 218 - Joe turned his back towards her, and did not speak. He leaned his head against the chimney, and after a moment's silence, he said, in a choked voice, " It was the first time I ever stole anything, and I have felt very bad about it. I do not know how it is.
Página 294 - The superiority of man to that of other terrestrial animals is as inconsiderable, in proportion to the immense plan of universal existence, as the difference of climate between the north and south end of the paper I now write upon, with regard to the heat and distance of the sun.