Homespun: Or, Five and Twenty Years AgoHurd and Houghton, 1867 - 346 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... faces eagerly pressed against window panes ; no feet of children to make little prints about the door ; nothing but a silence utterly voiceless all around ; - a Coli- seum in ruins cannot move the heart like this wreck of what was once ...
... faces eagerly pressed against window panes ; no feet of children to make little prints about the door ; nothing but a silence utterly voiceless all around ; - a Coli- seum in ruins cannot move the heart like this wreck of what was once ...
Pagina 15
... faces . There may have been a revolution in the house , lifting up the ceiling , pushing back the partitions , and letting in larger windows , -but it is very pleasant to know that by the old hearth the old memories are kept sound and ...
... faces . There may have been a revolution in the house , lifting up the ceiling , pushing back the partitions , and letting in larger windows , -but it is very pleasant to know that by the old hearth the old memories are kept sound and ...
Pagina 17
... face inquir- ingly for revelations . We enjoy frolics with the wildest fancies , too , as they trip hither and thither across the restless waves of flame , un- til we give up trying to keep them company . The imagination plunges into ...
... face inquir- ingly for revelations . We enjoy frolics with the wildest fancies , too , as they trip hither and thither across the restless waves of flame , un- til we give up trying to keep them company . The imagination plunges into ...
Pagina 24
... Face answers to face , as heart silently speaks to heart . The round world has no enticements to offer , so simple and true as those of the wintry fire - light . Men afterwards throw back longing glances from the advanced paths of their ...
... Face answers to face , as heart silently speaks to heart . The round world has no enticements to offer , so simple and true as those of the wintry fire - light . Men afterwards throw back longing glances from the advanced paths of their ...
Pagina 25
... faces of spirits peer from mysterious caverns among the sticks ; their impalpable forms flit across weltering seas of flame , climb nimbly into towers and stee- ples , and beckon at windows through which pour the FIRE ON THE HEARTH . 25.
... faces of spirits peer from mysterious caverns among the sticks ; their impalpable forms flit across weltering seas of flame , climb nimbly into towers and stee- ples , and beckon at windows through which pour the FIRE ON THE HEARTH . 25.
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Pagina 176 - I'll be as certain to make him a good dish of meat, as I was to catch him. I'll now lead you to an honest ale-house where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall...
Pagina 39 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man...
Pagina 50 - You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th...
Pagina 173 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Pagina 39 - Almost all you see," said the good old man, " is the work of my own hands, though I am bordering on eighty years of age. My old woman does the weeding, and John mows the turf and digs for me ; but all the nicer work — the sowing, grafting, budding, transplanting, and the like — I trust to no other hand but my own — so long, at least, as my health will allow me to enjoy so pleasing an occupation ; and, in good sooth, the fruits here taste more sweet, and the flowers have a richer perfume, than...
Pagina iii - Happy he whom neither wealth nor fashion, Nor the march of the encroaching city, Drives an exile From the hearth of his ancestral homestead. We may build more splendid habitations, Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures, But we cannot Buy with gold the old associations ! CATAWBA WINE.
Pagina 18 - Above the wood which grides and clangs Its leafless ribs and iron horns Together, in the drifts that pass To darken on the rolling brine That breaks the coast. But fetch the wine. Arrange the board and brim the glass; Bring in great logs and let them lie, To make a solid core of heat; Be cheerful-minded, talk and treat Of all things ev'n as he were by; We keep the day.
Pagina 45 - To be right in the rnidst of your own growing vegetables ; to behold the favorite sunflowers all turned to the east ; to watch the beansprouts, coming up with their twin leaves out of the cleft heart of the seed ; to shave down ranks of red-stemmed weeds with a single sweep of the bright hoe ; to brush your peas, pole your beans, set frames to support your cucumbers and tomatoes, trim your young hedges, hunt the bugs among the squash vines, and plan new paths through beds of vegetables and rows of...
Pagina 188 - Decws et tutamen in armis." There he is in the saddle now ! How proudly that best piece of horse-flesh in the county takes his martial paces across the turf he spurns ! How gayly glitter the epaulettes of his rider — how gracefully waves his plume — how noisily jingle his regimental trappings! He must assuredly feel as if the neck of his steed was