The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons... A History of Literature in America - Página 292de Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 443 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 páginas
...draught The great throat of the chimney laughed And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 4. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the nortb wind raved ? Blow high, blow low,... | |
| Frank McAlpine - 1885 - 446 páginas
...the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. At last the great logs, crumbling low, Sent out a dull and duller glow; The bull's-eye watch that hung... | |
| 1885 - 120 páginas
...clean-winged hearth, the house-dog on his paws outspread, and the cat dozing before the fire, while "The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered...the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood ; " of the love for each other of the members of that household gathered around that hearth ; of the... | |
| William Swinton - 1885 - 408 páginas
...seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the anairon's straddling feet, The mug 01 cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row;...basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood.— \\hiltier. CHAPTER V. THE VERB. I. DEFINITION. p 89. A verb is a word that predicates* action or being:... | |
| William Henry Rideing - 1887 - 240 páginas
...its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head ; The cat's dark silhouette...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood." The father was a plain, taciturn, yet prompt and decisive man, who in early life had explored the vast... | |
| William Henry Rideing - 1887 - 258 páginas
...tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andiron's straddling feel, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood." The father was a plain, taciturn, yet prompt and decisive man, who in early life had explored the vast... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 366 páginas
...the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 páginas
...the wall A couchunt tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 páginas
...the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
| Martin Luther Holbrook - 1888 - 256 páginas
...country, says : THE APPLE. 131 'And for the winter fireside meet, Between the andiron's straggling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered...basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood.' " Strangely stimulating is this fruit ! The activity it gives to the blood is fairly contagious. I... | |
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